Show THE LABOR DYNASTY brindell the new york feder 1 al trades official has haa been col I 1 electing from two to ten dollars a week from men for per permission missi on to work for a living temporary privileges for working 1 as a carpenter were sold to any barber or bootblack who thad had twenty five dollars to pay I 1 for the privilege on top of this the legislative examination shows he could assess a thousand dollars a floor on any building contractor aorl for giving him a working arrement ag rement if ilia his damanda were not i not met lie he could call a strike and tens teng of thousands innocent of workers were luid laid off in idleness to enable him to collect Ws his blackmail and because of the hold this system has on labor as well as the rest of the country the average honest worker has blindly and implicitly yield and obey or be refused the privilege of work ing and earning his living at all Is it any wonder the american or open shop plan is ia to be inaugurated from coast to coast |