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Show MUST PROVE VALUE OF UNION WORKERS Outstanding Obligation of Organized Labor. By JOHN P. FREY, President Ohio S;ate Federation of Labor. A portion of our obligation, our duty to the great movement which we represent. Is to deal witli employers with whom we have friendly relations In such a manner that we will not only retain their full confidence, but by example lead other employers to realize that not only as n matter of Justice, but as a matter of individual advantage to themselves, it is to their r - CV k i X ts' ) i ' - r: r A .. -- . - h 4 s John P. Frey. interest to establish friendly working relations with trade union organizations organiza-tions of their employees. There will probably always be some employers who will only tolerate trade unionism among their employees and deal with its representatives, because they cannot help themselves, but if our trade union movement is to fulfill the purpose for which it exists, its policies, its methods, its attitude must be such as to win and retain the confidence con-fidence and the good will of the majority ma-jority of employers. My hope for the future of our movement move-ment is based upon the conviction that trade unionism will establish those conditions in industry, and that relationship with employers which will win for us the friendly support of every fair-minded employer. While battling sturdily for our rights and refusing to yield a particle of the opportunities op-portunities and the freedom we are entitled to, we must develop more and more a true spirit of co-operation with employers who have friendly relations with us. We must, on a continually large scale, prove that those who employ em-ploy our members are in a more satisfactory satis-factory condition industrially than those who operate nonunion shops. We must demonstrate that trade unionism is a benefit to the employer as well as his employees, and that trade unionism assists instead of handicaps han-dicaps those who employ its members. |