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Show COMMIEill Editor Standard-Examiner. In your paper of April 2, "W. D. Watson, Wat-son, In considering the "American Plan of Eniployymcnt," makes the following errors: He considers the "American Plan of Employment'' an April fool;, whereas, the unions have fooled the people long enough. Ho states that other unions are not getting a living wage; whereas, tho( latest reports on the cost of living say ; that the C. O. L. has Increased S4 per cent since 1914. Wages have increased in-creased proportionately; let Mr. Watson Wat-son publish the wages he received per day In 191-1 alongside of the wages he is receiving today. He states that "wc as union men concede 'that the constitutional right of every workman to seek and find employment, upon terms and conditions condi-tions as are mutually satisfactory to himself and his employer, must not be denied or abridged; ' " whereas, unions require a man to seek and find employment only through the union and under union conditions, whether these are satisfactory to the workman work-man or not. He states that the public welfare has always been regarded by the unions; whereas the unions have wholly disregarded the public welfare, as a glanco at the coal strike and th.o threatened railroad strike, and the present sympathetic strike of the marine ma-rine works, which handle 90 per cunt of the food supply of the city of New York, will show. He states that "I consider it my privilege to quit my Job If I do not desire de-sire to work with another workman," and assumes that because it Is his right that It is the right of workmen collectively to quit a job as a body; whereas, even If wc admit the right fulness of collective quitting which we do not we cannot Americanlzo tho rightfulness of collectively forbidding forbid-ding others to take what the quitters refuse to have. He considers unorganized labor as "selfish and indifferent" and "opposed" to organized labor;" therefore, thoy must be excluded from work; whereas unionism is selfish and works for self-interest self-interest only, by first wanting all of tho proflt3 produced by capital and brains, as wqll as labor; and "second, by requiring all 'employers of organized organ-ized labor to maintain union shops; thus, by limiting apprentices and excluding ex-cluding other workmen they monopolize monopo-lize tho opportunity to work. He assumes that unions aro organized organ-ized for lawful purposes; whereas, if unions are so organized, why i3 there such a fight put up and such a turmoil tur-moil created in organized labor circles when any law Is being considered which is to regulate and properly protect pro-tect tho public against the most gigantic gigan-tic trust that American industry has produced. He assumes that all contracts on the part of organized labor have been faithfull observed; whereas, thero is nothing on the union side of their contract con-tract to bind them, and tho unions oppose op-pose any law requiring their incorporation, incorpor-ation, and unions even refuse to furnish fur-nish bond for tho faithful performance perform-ance of their contracts. Ho assumes that the union shop closed shop is not repugnant lo American principles; whereas tho constitutional con-stitutional right belonging to cvory man Is that ho may seek and find work wherever and whenever he may tlesiro. Organized labor has rendered a service to tho working man In many ways, and can still be of greater service ser-vice In our industrial life. It Is only tho things in organized labor which are menacing the public that we must chock. This is what the "Amcrjcan Plan of Employment" is doing. As a motnber of tho 27,000,000 mostly unorganized un-organized workors in gainful occupations. occupa-tions. I heartily approve of tho Utah Associated Industries plan. The S9 per cent of the unorganized workers of this country must protect them-solvcs them-solvcs against the 10 per cent of organized or-ganized workors on tho one hand and tho 1 per cent of capitalists on the other. I endorse the "American Plan of Employment." Yours truly, A CITIZEN. OO |