Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Dialectic Society Goes on Record as Opposing Rowdyism, Supporting Open Shop Companies, Nov. 26, 1919

From The Tar Heel, Chapel Hill, Nov. 26, 1919

Open Shop Is Favored By Dialectic Society

At its regular meeting Saturday night, the Di Society adopted a resolution opposing the spirit of rowdyism and ungentlemanly conduct that has come to the campus this year. W.H. Bobbitt proposed the resolution, which after a short explanation by G.D. Crawford, was passed by unanimous vote of the society. The most flagrant exhibition of this un-Carolina spirit was at the recital given by the Overseas Ladies under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. The Di Society believes that such actions are not representative of the Carolina student body, and its hastening to stamp them with its firm disapproval, will, in the opinion of many, have a sobering effect on those who would drag down the fine reputation students of this Institution enjoy over the country.

The debate on the Open Shop question drew from the members of the society a heated discussion of the labor problem in general, and the regular debate with Boyd and Townsend representing the affirmative against Williams and Corpening on the negative, resulted in a unanimous decision in favor of the affirmative. Judging from the amount of sentiment expressed against the closed shop principle, the Di Society must be fully two-thirds in favor of the open shop basis for workmen.


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