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Show LABOR LEADERS ARE AFTER HEW ONES PRESIDENT GOMPERS DECLARE3 OPEN SHOP CAMPAIGN IS NOW AN ADMITTED f'aILURE Will Vi3it Large Western Centers in Order to Place Organized Labor on Sounder Footing; Meeting Scheduled for Denver. Washington The American Federal Feder-al ion of Labor is about to launch an Intensified organization campaign, President Samuel (rompers announced Sunday in a statement which said that "the message of trade unionism will be carried to every corner of the land. "Its encouragement and protection will be offered to the workers everywhere," every-where," he declared. "Immediately following the Denver convention next month it is my purpose to visit a number num-ber of cities to encourage the unorganized unorgan-ized to join our movement." Mr. Gornpers asserted that "confession "confes-sion that the 'open shop' campaign has proved a failure was made public May 6, at the annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers Manufac-turers in New York." The association's committee on industrial in-dustrial advancement, lie said, protested pro-tested against the defensive position Into which the members had forced by labor and urged that an offensive campaign be inaugerated and that the "open shop" movement be stimulated by plans for industrial representation. "Having failed by coercive tactics to force a utoeracy in industry on the workers," he added, "the National Association As-sociation of Manufacturers proposes to silence them by promising a few of their representatives seats on boards of director of the corporations'. This would be an empty honor. "Sincerity of purpose of employer their wholehearted interests in their employees, can be shown best in the contents of pay envelopes. When that is lacking there can be no encouragement encourage-ment for the workers' in having rep-resentatatives rep-resentatatives on boards of directors. "Furthermore, such proposals is to ecourage the disorganization of the organized or-ganized a:i3 prevent the organization of the unorganized. The humiliating confession of defeat of the "open shop" campaign officially coorares statements state-ments heretofore made by labor that as the 'open shop' campaign woe an un-American and illogical campaign conducted to serve greed and special interests it was impossible for it to succeed. |