GOMPERS DEFENDS UNIONIZATION AS BENEFIT TO LABOR

Declaring that he would "discard either and all of the titles" on which he had been announced to speak, and would "just talk," Samuel Gompers, speaking at the Union last light, reviewed not the "Case for the Closed Shop" nor any specific labor question, but the whole subject of the rights and aspirations of labor.

He called attention at first to the fact that in this country of abundant resource and vast power there are at present over four million unemployed. "The statement that there are found million unemployed in this land, willing to work, and unable to find it, is a tremendous indictment of the country," said Mr. Gompers. All the toilers have is their power to work and receive reward for it, a reward conforming to the standards of American living. Whether under the term of open or closed shop, the shop in which a laborer can secure this reward is the one he needs, and only union organization of all the workers, because all are beneficiaries of the activities of the union, can secure this reward. So ran Mr. Gompers' argument for the Closed Shop.

Defense for Unions

In Answer to the argument that unionization destroyed individuality, Mr. on pears maintained that under modern conditions "the individuals is a mere cog in the great wheel of a modern industrial plant" and that individual freedom could be attained only by cooperation in the union. He explained the renewal of the open shop campaign by the fact that there are, "still living among employers the typical old Bourbons, those who have

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