The Potters Herald

Buy Union Urged To Counteract Drive To Pass Antilabor Legislation

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)—In a statement released through the AFL Union Label Trades Department, John P. Burke, president of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers, says:

"By promoting a drive for the purchase of union-made goods, let us start a counter-offensive against the Congressmen and Senators who are trying to enact antiunion shop legislation. If the more than seven million members of the American Federation of Labor, their families and their friends would make a solemn resolve to buy union-made goods only—and stick to this resolve we could laugh at the efforts of some of our Senators and Congressmen who pass antiunion legislation. Here is a weapon that labor has in its hands that cannot be outlawed, even if all the Senators had the same kind of archaic mind as Senator Ball.

"The reason why union men should spend their union wages for union-made goods is too obvious for argument. It is consumers who furnish the markets for the products of American industry. When we spend our union wages we should spend it for products made by union men and women. Not a single dollar earned in a union shop should be spent for the purchase of products made in non-union shops."