The Open Shop | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 1, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 22.

The Open Shop.

The Christian Work makes this reference to the growing popularity of the open-shop principle of employing skilled labor: "The action of the National Association of Clothing Manufacturers at their Philadelphia meeting in making a flat and unmistakable declaration for the open shop is extremely significant. The issue has not been raised on any question of wages or of hours, but has been precipitated by the increasing reluctance of union cutters and tailors to render a fair equivalent in work done for wages paid. This means, presumably, that because some workmen do not desire to join the unions, they shall not, when skilled and capable, find all the doors of employment closed against them. The open-shop movement is steadily gaining ground. Its complete success will be the best thing that could possibly happen to such of the unions as have for their object the promotion of the best interests of labor."