Show Labor Will Take Up Open Shop Challenge Y M C A Comes in for Antagonism After Refusing Speakers union Onion Men No Longer i Fear Soldiery and Endorse Military Training Camps Launch Life Insurance Company Labors Labor's Wealth Soon to toBe toBe toBe Be Felt By CHESTER M WRIGHT WEIGHT Secretary of the Pan American Federation of Labor Spec Special al Dispatch to The Standard Examiner Stand Examiner rd-Examiner DETROIT D Mich Oct 9 Swinging 9 Swinging into the second and an last hist week of its convention the American Federation of Labor has before it most of the constructive work to which it looked forward a week ago Dut But It goes Into Inta th the e final stretch with a 0 fighting spirit aroused bytho by bythe bythe the challenge ot of business and fi financial fi- fi financial interests favorIng the called so-called sa- sa so called American plan and open apen shop plan which was hurled at atthe atthe the federation through the tho medium of at the tho Y T M C A and numerous churches In Detroit That the th seven years effort eUort of af the Federal Council of af Churches be- be begun begun eun be-eun gun In the days dL's when the tho Rev Charles Stella Stello gingerly entered an anA anA anA A F of at L I convention as a frater frater- fraternal fraternal nal nat delegate from the churches and when hen the tho Rev Peter Diets Dietz came In the same am capacity as a Roman Catholic nill Ill not be un- un undone Undone un undone done nationally Is assured Rut But there has been something of a check to ta that trend FEELING G AGAINST Y Y 11 N 1 C A Always there have hav been dele dole delegatE's delegates gates gatE's who wha have e that the conventions and church organza should remain apart but the programs put forth by the th national groups croup have ha been suf- suf sufficiently appealing to win ln a friend friend- friendship friendship lp ship that has kept the doors swing swing- swingIng swinging ing freely It is a a curious and in and ln tact fact there thero that even though th the churches have taken exactly tho the position taken by the theY theY I Y M I C A tho the resentment of at delegates Is turned most bitterly u the tho Y M C A u This i is partly because there has been a a long lang st standing feeling that the Y T M C A backers were un- un un unfriendly It friendly friendly It has been called a strike strikebreaking strikebreaking breaking agency in thIs convention I hall ball But however comparatively mild mildmay mildmay mildmay may be b the feeling as to ta the churches here today the fact reo re- remains re remains mains that the tho Impression Is It I grow graw- ins crow ing fed by the action of af the early carly days ot of the convention that in an any final test the tho big churches whose boards Include business men and fInanciers will swine ming against labor laborIn laborIn laborin In spite spit of programs and protestations protestations ot of present general friendship Labor Labar has witnessed the tho spectacle spectacle dc cle ot of pastors closing their pulpit at the behest of af boards cf ct directors and the tho picture Is not likely to fade DONT DON'T FEAR SOLDIERY Contrasted to this reversal of at feeling Is another in an apposite direction Prior to ta the World warthe war the national guard was regarded by labor labar as traditionally hostile It was as the feeling of ot labor labar men that one o of at the purposes for far which the guard existed was I for us use In strikes The recommendation o of af the tho exe executive exe- exe executive council In tn favor of th the citi citizens citI- citI citIzens citizens zens military training camps marks the complete passing of ot that ancient hostility and suspicion It means that labor labar no na longer langer tears the soldiery of af the tho nation natlan and no na longer looks upon It as an arm of aC hostile employers To Ta those thase who wha have have known labor labar feeling this Ic- Ic re 03 versal ereal of sentiment is a remarkable sign of changing chang times The Tho war itself forced the begin begin- beginning beginning ning of at this change chance when from every family men went vent Into Inta the army Cut But the nationalization of at atthe otha the guard after the war made pos pas pos pos- possible possible sible tin finally ally the action now recommended recommended recommended mended by the Uie executive council Aside from the tho great trout organization organization tion drive being planned here the most mast significant development of at atthe o othe the tho convention period is the corn com completion of af the financing of Union Labor Labar Insurance company campany with In capital and sur- sur sur surplus plus pius paid in Of this company brought braught into Inta being by the Ameri Amen American American can Federation of Labor Labar and fi- fi financed fi financed solely by unions and union president members Matthew is cal pr-cal- dent CAN X WILLIS POWER roWEn The launching of at this company is h bringing to ta labor a consciousness of af it Its financial strength th that Is 1 even more mare striking striking- than was wu de- de de developed by labors labor's labor success in the banking business Labor Labar financing It Is freely predicted will soon Baan begin to ta make Itself felt In the in- in industrial in industrial field and it I is believed by many that the tI time timo Is not nat far dis- dis distant dis distant tant when this Influence will have to be bo reckoned with In Industrial In any event a change In the tho current of at labor labors labor's money Is setting In and there Is more mare mor than cne direction |