The Open Shop at Panama

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 28, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 13.

The Open Shop at Panama

Palo Alto’s enterprising paper, the “Citizen,” points out that “now’s the time to settle the question of whether the [Panama] exposition shall be built without annoyance of labor trouble.” As the exposition enterprise is in the largest sense a public one in the financing of the project, “there can be,” the Citizen logically observes, “neither logic nor legality in a policy of discrimination in favor of one class of citizens as against other classes. It is a case in which the rule of the open shop is implied in the very nature of things.” It would seem that every fair-minded union man would agree with this logic.