Original - North Central Michigan College Library

'prefacenity to earn high wages in return for increasedproduction, and protection in their rights asAmerican citizens. The officers of The LakesidePress believe that this trusteeship canonly be fulfilled when the relations betweenthe management and the employees areunhampered by the arbitrary dictation ofunion officials who have no direct interest inthe welfare either of the establishment or itsemployees.Whatever may have been the necessities inthe past for labor unions as a protection againstabuse, today the demand of modern industryfor contented, smooth-working organizations,and the revelation through factory accountingthat high skill at high wages means lowerunit costs, are labor's greatest protection.Labor unions to a great extent have becomethe tools of ambitious leaders in labor unionpolitics and are kept in existence only fortheir personal aggrandizement and profit,and by the apathy and weakness of the employers.Most unions lay an unfair burdenon the public, stifle advancement in the artof increasing production and lowering costs,and are a millstone around the necks of theworkmen themselves.Of the two thousand odd employees ofThe Lakeside Press, not one is a member ofany labor organization, and in spite of therepeated attempts of the labor unions to enticeaway its employees, the organization has