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Edwin F. Ladd, Senator from North Dakota, has agreed to address the conference. Senator Ladd, formerly the president of North Dakota State Agricultural College, was the only candidate elected to the Senate last fall by the non-Partisan League...
...closed union shop on the editorial page of the March 'Federationist'. 'The union shop', he says, is a shop in which none but union workers are employed and in which there is a definite agreement between the employer and the worker as an organized unit. In union shops non-union workers sometimes are employed, but only when union men cannot be had. Most agreements provide that when no union workmen are to be had non-union workers may be employed, with the proviso that they make application for union membership within a reasonable period of time. 'The true open shop...
...negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked the trade unions of Great Britain, who, contrary to our condition dominated the metal trades, to agree with the Government that for the period of the war they would abandon their restrictions, work with non-unionists and admit a dilution of female labor. In other words, Great Britain, as a matter of public policy, sought the establishment of an open shop as the only means of meeting the requirements of national defense...
According to the literature published by the league, which modestly dscribes itself as "a non-partisan union of farmers and labor organizations and other progressive forces", this "program of economic justice will save the people on the farms, in the factories, mines, offices, trades, and transportation $6,000,000,000 a year." All this sounds very promising, but inspection of the program clearly shows an attack on private enterprise. As it has been stated: "This league's legislative drive aims at nothing short of camouflaged communism." Here is an example of the sort of radical propaganda that is going...
...author of the communication of March 6 has assumed that the "youth from the middle-west", who wrote the early communication, did so with the idea of criticizing the existing social order. Our non-partisan communicator thereby made the double error of jumping to hasty conclusions, and of reading into the first communication something which was not written. Having based his entire article upon a false assumption, I fail to see in it any but that questionable value of personal attack. The criticism was intended to be constructive, not destructive...