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THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 
OPEN-SHOP OPERATION 
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The Chamber’s position taken through referendum in 1920 isin’ 
favor of open-shop—i. e., employment without discrimination or in 
favor of men on account of membership in labor organizations. We 
desire to reaffirm the declaration of 1920, that the right of open- 
shop operation, that is, the right of employer and employee to enter 
into and determine the conditions of employment relation with each 
other, is an essential part of the individual right of contract pos- 
sessed by each of the parties. (Resolution, Twelfth Annual Meeting, 
1924.) 
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EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN PUBLIC-SERVICE 
Strikes by employees of all public-service corporations perform- 
ing public service essential to the lives, health, security, comfort, 
and well-being of the people should, by law, be explicitly prohibited. 
Suitable tribunals should be created by law to adjudicate differ:- 
ences between the employees of public-service corporations and 
their employers, and that the decisions of such tribunals should be 
final and binding upon both parties. (Referendum No. 32, sub- 
mitted June 9, 1920.) 
EX-SERVICE MEN 
EmprrovmeENT oF Ex-ServicE MEN 
Employers generally adopted a policy of reengaging soldiers, 
sailors and marines formerly in their employ, and this Chamber 
recommends a continuance of this policy to the end that every 
soldier, sailor and marine shall find employment in the community 
where he was employed when he entered the service. 
Prompt reemployment depends upon proper distribution. Proper 
distribution necessitates the return of a discharged man to the 
community where employed when he entered the armed forces, at 
least until such time as he may be better able to obtain elsewhere 
the kind of work, or the new opportunity, which he may now seek. 
The commercial organizations of the country should continue 
to develop a program of closest cooperation in the field of soldier, 
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