. Labor problems and labor legislation . CLEANLINESS BREEDS HEALTH. Workers should not eat or leave the factory withoutthoroughly washing their hands. ed by collection of an assessment among the or-ganized workers generally. Less use is nowmade of the boycott than formerly. The weapon in the employers hands whichmost closely corresponds to the boycott is theblacklist, or the agreement not to employ cer-tain workmen. Most states have laws prohibit-ing blacklisting, but they are dead letters. Inthese days of watermarked paper, telegraph, andtelephone, it is easy for one employer to giveanother s
. Labor problems and labor legislation . CLEANLINESS BREEDS HEALTH. Workers should not eat or leave the factory withoutthoroughly washing their hands. ed by collection of an assessment among the or-ganized workers generally. Less use is nowmade of the boycott than formerly. The weapon in the employers hands whichmost closely corresponds to the boycott is theblacklist, or the agreement not to employ cer-tain workmen. Most states have laws prohibit-ing blacklisting, but they are dead letters. Inthese days of watermarked paper, telegraph, andtelephone, it is easy for one employer to giveanother secret information which may lead to aworkmans discharge. The employers right to [101] LABOR PROBLEMS AND LABOR LEGISLATION. A FACTORY HOSPITAL. Hospitals in modern industrial establishments help to main-tain health and efficiency. discharge is absolute, and the man who is de-prived of a livelihood usually has no proofagainst the person who supplied the information. Open and Closed ShopAs already stated, strikes to secure a closedshop are often held to be illegal. A closed shopis one in which only members of the union arepermitted to work. Employers object to this re-striction as an interference with their business,and are likely to contend for the open shop, inwhich theoretically any one, union or non-union,may find employment. In practice, however, [102] SELF-GOVERNMENT IN INDUSTRY the open shop in name is usually a closedshop in an opposite sense—closed to union mem-bers. Unionists point out that if they allow non-members to slip in, their own control of theshop is weakened and standards are soon low-ered. Wages are cut, or hours lengthened, orthe beginnings of industrial democracy arestamped out. Sinc
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