Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-19 | Page 8 | 'Open Shop' Battle Extends to Canada

'OPEN SHOP' BATTLE EXTENDS TO CANADA OTTAWA, Feb. 19 -Charges that in stigators of the open shop" move-titent move-titent in tne I'nited State.-, ate extend ing their campaign into Canada wer made by Tom Moore, president of th Canadian Trades nnd Labor congress Mr. MooreV. statement was in reply to an address by N. J. Kennedy, president presi-dent of the Builders' Employers' association asso-ciation of Detroit. Mich., in which ho. paid that the United States "had been run lor the past four and a half years by Samuel Goinpers and that the last 1 election was a mandate to the govern-! mcnt that the people were tired of be ine dominated by the American Fed 6 ration of Labor." "I micht remark that Mr. Kennedy does not hail from a city that has anything any-thing to recommend It for its treatment treat-ment of labor or labor problems 1 1 believe we can show lilm something! much superior riphr here in Ottawa." Labor, ho warned, will not counten j ance the campaign, which, ho said., was in progress both in Canada and1 tho I'nited States, tocrcate "open! shop" conditions.