Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1920-05-28 | Page 2 | Un-American Idea

VX-AMERICAN IDEA. The day of the "closed" shop is about over not because the public s against the workman but because ,he people are beginning to see that the "closed" shop is against every principal of ous American constitution. constitu-tion. The real aim of the "closed" shop tgitators was to force every man to belong to a designated organization before he could get a job and to prevent every man who did not be-ong be-ong to such an organization from getting a job. Every American has e right to belong to any labor .union he sees fit. Also to such political laity as he wishjs or the chuieh of .is faith, but when it conr-s to get-I get-I - - "-b be shou! I r. it be required lo l t,.ouie iO any organization i.t lie tic-fire?, whether labor, pc.t cal, or religious, before he is allowed to do a day 3 work or earn a oay's pay. The "closed" shop was the real pi. in: at issue ii. the Boston police ii-il'e, the steel strike, The caal t'lke. the slr.o.fJ stnlus. the v.'.ichmens s t r i ':. o and numerous tnei strikes alVu'iigh this fact was t d.'s-n from the public "under a amouflage of various demands. This autocracy in America is about ended and any American will soon lave a right to work where and. when ne pleases.