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Show 'OPEN SHOP' Ifi IS SOCIALISTS Toledo Workers Organize and Capture Business of Former Employers 1 1 v HAL M 1 Miiw. v i iaff t osTcepottdent, TOLEDO, Ohio. Xov Toledo em-; ployers. by starting an "open shop" i I war on union labor, have forced their rmplocs to take a long step toward , Socialism- the ownership and management man-agement of the business hy the work-! crs. The sword the 'open shoppers' used was dangerousl.v two-edged aJrfady sonic of them regret their -hort -yighlrd policy. The electrical trade was hoscn for I the first attack in the crusade of the I Merchants' and Manufacturers' .xsso-Uiation .xsso-Uiation to kill unionism In Toledo. sMi lv i fU H PS.' Electrical contractors agreed to act as shock troops and start the battle, i In return, they were guaranteed, fr nn year, against financial loss The Instituted a neat little plan to card index every worker, through a central employment agency and to force each one to sign a contract not to belong to a union' But tabor attacked hit back. The workers did not quit their union, un-ion, to get bread, at the expense of the I right to associate with ea h other instead, they banded together 1 even more closely. They formed contra, ting concerns of their own and went after business! The Central Labor touncil backed ! theni up. So did many independent citizen.- People who needed electrical work called In the union men. MAlil lKI)s Steadily the union contractors cut into the business of their former employers. em-ployers. That first year guaranteed against I pee In well on its way The "open shop" on tractors are worried. Former i profits are turning into red int.. on th wrong side of the Ii dger .t the end I of the year they are apt to be left,' 1 high and dry. holdiriR the .-..c! tor th. Dig men ocninri me ami-union tight. And Toledo merchants are thanking their lucky stars, or canny judgment, ; thai they didn't Join the "open shop" crusade. The Merchants' and Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association Is mlsnri ined . No merchants belong. Its president amf dominating figure is Clarence Earl, vice president and general manager of the hi;.- i 'Veil , n, automobile uorks Ml RC11 Wh INVIT1 n The merchants were Invited to par-ibir.te. par-ibir.te. Their contributions wen I wMoleome and their influence, as large newepaper advertiser But thev refused to be used to pull other people's peo-ple's chestnuts out of the fire in a j fight that did not concern them. They are glad now that thev stood out, since ihev heard what happened to the g department stores of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, w hich Joined the "open shop" I war and grew on themselves a determined deter-mined eovinter-boveott of l.'.uao union worker and their families. oo |