FOR THE "OPEN SHOP."

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 14, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 11.

FOR THE "OPEN SHOP."

A PRESS despatch from Cincinnati, dated February 15, contains this bit of information:

At a meeting of Methodist editors and publishing managers of the United States here yesterday it was decided that every printing establishment controlled by the Methodist Book Concern shall hereafter be run on the "open shop" plan, making no distinction between union and non-union workers. It was declared that since the open-shop plan has been introduced there has been better service in every way, and that it would be absurd to think of ever restoring the alliance with the unions.

Commenting upon this, the Palo Alto, Cal., Citizen says:

This is another news item that goes to show that the "worm is turning." It is strange that it found its way into the columns of a San Francisco newspaper, for the papers there do not as a rule dare to print news of this character. If the papers in the West gave publication to all the news of this character that comes over the wires, the public would soon learn the truth as to conditions back East, where unionism suffers telling losses every day.