Labor Against the Workers

On the pretext that only compulsory unionism can protect it from “union busting,’’ organized Labor is demanding control over every American worker

On February 7, a superior court judge in Indianapolis regretfully told 84 employees of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that he lacked jurisdiction to protect them in their jobs. These men had resigned from various railway unions in protest against compulsory unionism, and had joined the in-dependent United Railroad Operating Crafts. Failing to get this union elected as their bargaining agent, they applied for readmission to their former unions, which refused to accept them and demanded their discharge under the terms of the B & O’s union-shop agreements. This act of vengeance—with which the B & D had no choice but to comply—-deprived the road of the services of 84 experienced employees, and the men not only of their livelihood but of seniority and pension rights accruing to them from their years of service.

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On the pretext that only compulsory unionism can protect it from “union busting,’’ organized Labor is demanding control over every American worker

On February 7, a superior court judge in Indianapolis regretfully told 84 employees of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad that he lacked jurisdiction to protect them in their jobs. These men had resigned from various railway unions in protest against compulsory unionism, and had joined the in-dependent United Railroad Operating Crafts. Failing to get this union elected as their bargaining agent, they applied for readmission to their former unions, which refused to accept them and demanded their discharge under the terms of the B & O’s union-shop agreements. This act of vengeance—with which the B & D had no choice but to comply—-deprived the road of the services of 84 experienced employees, and the men not only of their livelihood but of seniority and pension rights accruing to them from their years of service.