LABOR: Open Shop--No Issue

Open Shop—No Issue

It is reported that some of President Harding's vacation advisers urged him to inaugurate an "open shop " campaign with a view to making the so-called "American plan " of labor policy a Republican plank in the next election. President Gompers of the A. F. of L. immediately issued an emphatic protest in which he compared the " open shop " advocates to the Italian Fascisti and wondered who would be their Mussolini.

President Harding, however, has shown both by his action and his words in the railroad and coal...

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