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Show SOMETHING TO REMEMBER If you have a boy serving his country in the Army or the Navy, whose life may depend upon the delivery of supplies sup-plies to the four corners of the earth, read this: In Portland, Oregon, where conditions are similar to those in hundreds of other American cities, a free-born American citizen answered the call for men to man a new-freighter new-freighter going into the transport service. He hacL waited around for some days before the ship was ready, and when it came time to sign up was about out of money. He then found that before he could go on board as a seaman he had to pay the labor union about $15.00. He didn't have the money. Fortunately he found a friend who loaned it to him. Words are inadequate to express one's opinion of such a condition. Here is a situation where an American citizen can't get a job on an American ship carrying American-made American-made supplies to American armed forces that are fighting to preserve" this nation, until he pays tribute to private labor bosses. If the closed shop can tie our country up in this manner, what personal liberty have we to boast about ? In a free country, a man should have the right to join a labor union if he so desires, and he should have the right not to join if he so desires. Certainly no private organization organiza-tion should have the power to deny a man the right to work in a war effort, until that man can first pay it a cash' tribute. |