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The Open Shop

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 10, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 6.

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The Open Shop

THERE is entirely too much special pleading on the part of the labor unions as to the rightfulness of its demands, says William H. Pfahler, of Philadelphia. I stand for the open shop, because it is the freedom of the individual, because there is no condition by which any body of men in this country can gather to themselves a power or a right that each individual shall not enjoy. Suppose I want to earn my living in a way that seems best fitted to me, in a manner that seems best fitted to me, in a place in which I can best do it. Have I the liberty? Who says I have not?—Only the labor unions.