Show i Union Newspaper Released by Western U. U S. S LABOR AND CLOSED SHOP LAST SPRING W W. O. O Hart editor editor edi tor of the Orange Calif Daily Dail heading The Filth Fifth News under a Freedom wrote and printed ar editorial which has attracted nationwide nationwide nation nation- wide interest and has been reprinted reprint reprint- cd ed from the Pacific to the Atlantic seaboard In that editorial Hart demanded for American workers the right tc employment without the payment o oj of tribute to labor racketeers the right to join or not to join a union a athey as they chose He insisted the right tc work was the basic right of all freedoms freedoms free doms that without it all other rights right were valueless The closed shop principle for fOl which labor racketeers are contending contend contend- the constitutional constitutional ing is a violation of privilege of the more 50 million American workers no now no employed of which only about one fourth are members of unions Labor racketeers would say to the theother theother theother other three-fourths three that they could not work to support themselves an and anc their families without paying tribute such such amount of tribute as the racketeers may levy We have been suffering from fron minority rule Congress has listened to these organized blocs in the matter matter mat mat- I Iter ter of legislation Congress has ha failed to realize they are but minorities minori minori- ties and do not represent a majority major ity of the American people Congress Congress Con Con- gress will find a majority of the American people will vote out o oj of office any group of senators or representatives representatives rep rep- representatives who attempt to impose upon them any law that deprives the worker of Bill Harts Hart's fifth freedom free dom the dom the right to work without the payment of tribute to union racket racket- I |