The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-09
A BOYCOTT

sgsinst the products of the Post um
Cereal Co, Ltd, viz Grape Nuts
and Postum Food Coffee.
The labor papers notify the public
not to buy these things until Mr.. o.
w. Post, the proprietor, obeys the
orders Of the unions.
These orders" are that he with
draw the advertising from certain
newspapers that have fallen under
their displsasure.
They openly announce that they
propose to break up" ruin" and
put out OF business" the publishers
OF such papers, and insist that Mr..
Post Join in this conspiracy with
them.
These publishers have been faithful
! in their contracts with Mr.. Post, are
upright business men and good citi-
zens, their only crime being that they
decline to turn over the management
OF their papers to the leaders Of the
labor trusts. alias unions, who are
generally ignorant, wilful, and violent
men, incapable Of conducting 9
business.
Mr.. Post declines to be q party to
such unlawful conspiracy to fnan-
cially ruin anyone. and this together
with the fact that he has been rash
enough to publicly expose some of the
criminal acts OF members of labor
unions has produced this boycott.
The average American citizen, not
employing labor, knows little Of the
iusuffersbls arrogance, impudence and
violence of the ignorant DULLES, deco
rated with brief power by the most
( tyrannous Of all trusts. the labor
trust" or unions.
Put supreme power in the hands Of
any Ignorant man. not accustomed to
affairs, and he quickly becomes a
bully, denouncing and abusing
anyone and everyone who does not
instantly obey his orders. He cares
nothing for law or the rights Of
others.
The unions are made mp OF two
classes. First. The men who have q
ready and abusive tongue, and who
can howl down, and by violent and
loud talk. dominate the meetings of
the unions.
These men are seldom il ever good
workers, or thrifty homecoming and
desirable citizens, they have small
chance on their own merits TO earn
first class wages unless they can force
themselves on employers by union |
card. They bring on strikes and
misery for good workmen, aud try to,
and do. blsckmail employers into
settling same by paying them graft
money. Some of them have been jailed
for such offences, but the great ma
jority still hold forth. They have
brought untold disgrace on the fair
name of labor" and made the term
1.-THE poo.er werken mon" a by word,
Kissed and laughed at by the public.
The second or other class in the
labor unions is made up OF good cap
able, intelligent, pesceable, tArifty
citizens, who 60 into unions with the
lsudable purpose OF lettering their
conditions and to support an honest
association, which they hope will be
honestly conducted, truly and fairly
10 the interests of labor, but to their
surprise and disgust they find that
whenever they try to spsak in the
meetings for fairness and honorable
procedure, they are hooted and howl
ed down by the other class.
They try to counsel peace, equity,
and justice, but they might as we'll |
launch feather in cyclone. Then
they some times try to keep at work
when they are fair. but they are
abused. and frequently their families
maltreated and themselves beaten
back into submission, so there are
literally hundreds Of thousands of de-
cent American workmen, absolutely
forced to bear the disgrace and ig-
nominy of the CALLING yoke Of union
ism, because of the hated tyranny Of
the others.
Every American Of the right sort ia
q workman either with brain or hand,
or better yet, with both, and in the
mind of each is fundamental deep
seated respect for the able, competent,