The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1948-09-30
The Union Shop

Since the beginning of trade unionsm IN this country
the union shop has been primary objective Men like to
work with their kind and union membership typlheS
of the widest differences between workers. Union mem
bers believe they have rights and organize to get them
Union members believe they must promote their econ
omic interests and join with ike-thnkng fellow workers
to oct work contracts to make possible better living stand
ards themselves and their families Union workers set
the pace for ahat is nonunionlsts benefit by their
ability and initiative Union members have spirit OF enter
prise to make OF opportunities to contribute TO produc-
on and also to guarantee themselves far share OF returns
from joint work.
union contract carries with it responsibilities on
which the union must make good First 1t must assure
management the required number of trained disciplined
workers AS first step to this end the union agrees WIN
the employer to set apprencetranng provisions ana 10
supervise the work The union also takes up with public
school authorities their responsibility for providing addition
al and related training The union assumes similar response
bty for other than craft workers who must learn different
skls.
In addition the union assumes responsibility for carry
ing the work contract and for discipline OF workers VINO
do conform to its provisions This involves the whole
field of economic government during work hourssafet
rules and their enforcement equitable settlement OF gev-
ances maintenance of good work customs and economical
production The unon of has power to discipline
non-members
The union believes that workers have right to decide
whether join the union. If workers join they are
welcome to share in its benefits and its duties II they 90
not is it not reasonable to assume the shoud
work with others of the mind where they would not
profit through union achievements for which they qua not
share in the struggle or the costs?
Union membership represents philosophy and belief
There is fellowship between those who share it together
TO them it represents the right of free workers to direct
their power to share economic progress
and basicay important to maintain the right to
Justice work relationships 1t is the spirit OF fellowship
trade unonss that union to support an
other union contendng for human rights to self
respect
The trainers of the Hartley Law struck at things
of spiritual value when they attacked the union shop and
the secondary boycott They assumed that the union is
something outside the workers controlling itwhereas the
union through the will of the workers. Votes the
union shop have justified the contentious of the union and
the attitude of employers indicates hidden hostility In
functions fobdding union workers to refuse to work
products made under unfair conditions to help fellow
onss strike by refusing to struck materials direct
workers do what they think immoral The Injunction
aids unfair employer.
To the courts in a labor dispute, to deny workers
the right to support in their struggle for human justice is
restrain highest motives for group action Unless work
resist such orders, unions may become immoral
the most mercenary corporations.
Because the Taft-Eartley Act seeks to make the union
ineffective morally well economically its repeal is the
primary objective of political action this year.