TO HOLD FORUM ON OPEN SHOP THIS AFTERNOON

An "Open Forum on Industrial Relations" will be held in the Trophy Room of the Union this afternoon at 2.30 under the auspices of the Business School Club. All members of the University who are interested in the question of industrial relations are invited to attend. Mr. James C. Emery, Counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, will give a short introductory talk, after which the meeting will be thrown open to informal discussion. Mr. Earl Dean Howard, Labor Manager of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx, will preside.

This meeting will afford an excellent opportunity for those interested in industrial relations to get the viewpoint of Mr. Emery, a man who has been most active in the movement favoring the open shop. In discussing the question recently in an interview for the Crimson, he said "It (the open shop question) cannot be settled by mere pious ejaculations nor passionate shibboleths. It is much more than differences of opinion between organized labor and employers. The controversy does not rest upon mere economic circumstance. It has essential social and political aspects of fundamental importance to the citizen individually and as a part of the public, with paramount interest in the principles at issue, as well as an economic stake in the effect of right employment relations upon the continuity and efficiency of the agencies of production, distribution, and communication, upon whose adjustment and operation depend social stability and progress.

"This rights at issue involve the most fundamental which the individual possesses and exercises in the furtherance of his own interest and that of the society of which he is a part. The policies are broad issues reaching into the individual and social value of free managerial control and direction on business method, and the encouragement, promotion, and stimulation of the worker's individual initiative. The actual situation is this. The closed shop seeks to deprive a man of his right to associate or not to associate as he sees fit, but compelling him to either join a trade union, and be governed by its decisions, thus giving up all his personal liberty, or to be deprived of the opportunity to earn his living. The open shop stands for giving the laborer a chance to exercise his right of discrimination in choosing the place and manner in which he shall earn his living, and the associates with whom he shall work.