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Show PACKERS Will HUN" WITHOUT UNION AID ARMOUR, SWIFT, WILSON AND CUDAHY COMPANIES WILL RUN OPEN SHOP "Open Shop" la Established by Four of tho Largest Packers In United 8tates; To Deal With Men and Not With Officials Hereafter Chicago Tho "opon shop" vrns established es-tablished Thursday by four of the nation's largest packers. Officials of the International Butchers' Butch-ers' union woro notltled by the packers that In the future only tho employes and not union officials would bo deult .vlth. The agreement under which Federal Judge Samuel Alschulor acted us urbltor in dUputes between packers and union employes cxplrod Thursday and In Its place the "American shop representation plan" was establish' d. The packers announced .that more than DO per cent of titer Tfi.OOO employes em-ployes in the country have voted In faor of tho plan. In ull the largo packing concerns tho companies luivo formed their employes In organizations, organiza-tions, representatives of which trent with company officials in matters of working conditions and wages. Tho packers' that have thrown tholr companies Into opon shops aro: Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co. and tin Cudahy Packing company. com-pany. No announcement has been made by Morris & Co. of a shop representation rep-resentation plan. With the announcement of the open shop came the statement that there would bo no Immediate readjustment of wngcB or working conditions, both of which remain the same as under tho Alschulor agreement. News that organized labor had been deposed In tho packing plants lilt llko a bombshell In labor circles. Pending conferences among union officials no statements woro forthcoming. Charles Hays, president of tho union ; Patrick Gorman, vice president, ami Dennis Lane, business agent, call-'d call-'d on the packers Wednesday and asked ask-ed for a continuance for another year of tho same wage scales and working rules ns provided In the Alschuler wartime war-time agreement. At the Armour, Swift and Morris plants they were told that only their own employes would be doalt with in the future. Thoy wero told at tho Cudahy and Wilson offices that the superintendents were out of tho city. Attorney Jnmos Q. Condon, packers' J attorney, outlined the "American" plan In operation In the four concerns, as follows: All men nnd womon are eligible to omployment whether rnombors of outside out-side unions or not. No person may represent employes in adjustment of grievances who is not an employoo of tho company. Tho employes elect their own representatives repre-sentatives by ballot. Those representatives represen-tatives must be American citizens. Employos electod as representatives trent with executives of tho companies in tho matters of wage scales and working conditions. |
