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Show ' THE CITIZEN 6 schools. Paris has all the machinery of our civilization, and yet armed men stand between one group of men and another group of men. We came on to Memphis and near the depot we saw a guard, and then we saw a policeman. The guard and the policeman were both having it easy. They were- sitting on the shady side of a tool house. Both were armed. So from Louisville to Memphis men are walking back and forth. These men can set the instruments of death going by the pressure of a finger; they can cut a soul away from its body and send it hurtling, maybe unprepared before the judgment seat, into that eternity which Is forever and forever. This morning this Sunday morning this day on which we celebrate the - i resurrection of Christ Christ, the man of peace Christ, the lover of all men, and Christ, the patient, the church bells are ringing. The children are being called to Sunday School. There will be singing, praying and preaching. This talking about Christ and his teachings will be going on all the way from Louisville to Memphis. But within earshot of the prayers, the singers, the Scripture readers and the preachers, the guards will carry their big guns. They will keep one group of sullen men away from another group of sullen men lest these men come together and kill one another on this Sabbath day. And yet what is going on from Louisville to Memphis on the L. & N. is going on all over the country. Men carrying big guns to keep men from flying at the throats of other men. This situation is unworthy of America this republic whose people boast of its glories and then proceed to do so many things that make our boasts sound hollow and empty. Is there a way out except a trial through brute force and brute endurance? Yes, there are many ways out One way of following the methods that are in vogue when the high court of newspaper conciliation and arbitra-..o- n - sits. An absolutely sure way is the following of the teachings of Christ as to toil and the relation of man to man. - FOR YOUR APPROVAL. In the industrial controversies that have afilicted this city and state for the past three years, one thing has been made clear to all: These con troversies Were not chargeable to the In numerous instances workers. where the workmen have been working for peaceful and harmonious relations and where employers were willing to enter into or continue these i peaceful relations, the Utah Associated Industries has stepped in to see that employer and employee did not get together on a collective basis. This regulator of all things industrial has. kept the city in perpetual turmoil, forcing employers to break off peaceful relations and preventing the resumption of agreeable arrangements desired by all persons self-constitut- . I: i j concerned. In no single instance can it be shown that this organization has brought about or assisted in bringing about any satisfactory collective agreement between employers and employees. At first professing to believe in and accept collective bargaining, they have done everything possible to prevent any semblance of collective bargaining but have insisted that employees must deal individually with the combined employers. When a mechanic sought employment in his chosen line, the employer to whom he applied referred him to the central employment office, where he was subjected to close questioning as to his affiliations, his past history and his intentions. If these questions were all answered in such way as to pass the scrutiny of the central employment agency, he was then at liberty to accept employment with any employer willing to give him work. If he revealed the fact that he was a member of a labor organization or had leanings that way, no matter what the need of the shops for additional employees, he was told there was no work for him. There may have been instances where this procedure was varied, but in scores of instances this has been the course insisted upon. If an employer departed from this policy and employed men without consultation with the central office, he was called on the carpet and made to explain, frequently being told that a repetition of the offense would subject him to discipline. This was understood to mean that his business would be taken away from him as far as this could be done by coercing and threatening those customers subject to the influence of the Associated Industries. Yet the american plan advocates have repeatedly put forth the propaganda that The American Plan Shop is not closed to any efficient workman, be he union or independent! To hold out to the public that they favor the employment of workmen regardless of their affiliations and then in practice to insist upon the closed shop is an insult to all those to whom they send their literature, since it assumes that they have not the intelligence to compare preaching with practice, or. to see the inconsistency of professing one thing and insisting that the opposite be the practice of those accepting their dictum. In direct contrast to this troublemaking course is that of the International Typographical Union, which for fifty years has advocated the fullest use of all peaceful means conferences, conciliation, mediation and arbitration as the only sane and economical substitute for strikes and lockouts. For the past twenty-onyears it demonstration has given a nation-widof the practicability of this course through its arbitration agreement and harmonious relations with the American Newspaper Publishers Association. During all this time the union has enforced compliance with the terms of agreements by the membership, expelling those who failed or refused to live up to the terms of their contracts and filling the places of the recalcitrant with skilled men as an effective non-unio- -- e e means of protecting the employer from interruption of production on account of breaches of contract by groups of members. Only three such breaches have occurred in the twenty-one years, and these have been speedily adjusted to the entire satisfaction of the employer. We believe this course is such as to win the approval of all who learn the facts, and in this example of the effective use of arbitration to guarantee continuous production and to prevent costly labor struggles is a valuable lesson to all engaged in industry. If you approve such methods, send your printing to offices having working agreements with this organization. Salt Lake Typographical Union No. 115 311 Scott Bldg. Wasatch 7762. Re. 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