Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Selected Articles on the Closed Shop
The abnormal industrial prosperity of the war period, with its high wages, high prices, ready employment, prodigal spend ing, and its rapid growth and domineering attitude of trade unionism, brought in its wane a spontaneous and nation-wide demand among employers for the Open shop. In many parts of the country employers associations and chambers of commerce, who bided their time during the period Of greater prosperity, took advantage of the increasing unemployment in the fall Of 1920 and the Winter and spring that followed to conduct active campaigns of publicity, issuing hundreds of bulletins, filling various trade and commercial papers with articles, and other wise disseminating propaganda advocating the open Shop which they called the American plan for they Claim to be actuated by motives of highest patriotism. Labor, lacking the whip hand which it held during the war period, but realizing the real pur pose and the full significance of these campaigns, fought to the limit of its power all attempts to crush out the Closed shop. In several Cities the central labor body collected funds, issued pamphlets, and furnished speakers for clubs and public meet ings, in an effort to counteract the aggressive campaign of the employers. Thus was written another chapter in the strug gle of organized labor to establish the union or closed shop against the determined resistance of the employers, and again the Closed shop controversy became one Of the leading public questions.
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