The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-08-09
A BOYCOTT

Has been declared by the labor unions
against the products of the Postum
Cereal Co. Ltd. viz: Grape-Nuts, and
Postum Food Coffee.
The labor papers notify the public not
TO buy these things until Mr.. c. ". Post
the proprietor. obeys the orders Of the
Unions.
These "orders'i are that he Withdraw
the advertising from certain newspapers
that have fallen under their displeasure.
They openly announce that they pro-
pose 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 up
right business men, and good citizens.
their only crime being that they decline
TO turn over the management OF their
papers to the leaders of the labor trust.
(al.as Unions), who are generally ignor-
ant. wilful. and violent men, incapable
of conducting a business.
Mr.. Post declines 10 be party 10 such
unlawful conspiracy to financially ruin
anyone, and thia. together with the fact
that he has baen rash enough to pub
hcly 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 in
sufferabie arrogance. impudence, and
violence of the ignorant DULLES, decorat-
ed with brief power by the most tyran-
nous of all trusts, the Tabor 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 up of two class
es. LIST. The men who have ready and
abusive tor que. and who can howl down.
and by violert and loud talk, dominate
the meetings of the Unions.
These men are seldom If ever good
workers. or thrifty home-owning and de-
sirable citizens. they have small chance
on their own mEr. $ TO earn first-class
wages, unless they can force themselves
on employers by Union card. They
bring on strikes and misery for good
wOrXmen, and try 10, aud do, blackmail
employers into settling same by paying
them graft money. Some of them have
been jailed for such ofrenses, but the
great majority stu hold forth. They
have brought untold disgrace on the fair
name of labor and made the term 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, capable, in
telligent. peaceable. thrifty citizens, who
go into unions with the laudab bic purpose
of lettering their conditions. and to sup
port an honest association, which they
hope Will be honestly conducted. truly
and fairly. in the interests OF labor, but
TO their surprise and disgust they find
that whenever they try to speak in the
meetings for fairness and honorable pro-
cedure. they are hooted and howled
down by the other class.
They try 10 counsel peace, equity and
justice, but they might as well launch
feather in a cyclone. Then they some
times try TO keep at work when they
need the wages, and know 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
decent American workmen, absolutely
forced TO bear the disgrace and ignominy
of the CALLING yoke OF Unionism, because
of the hated tyranny OF the others.
Every American Of the right sort is n
workman. either with brain or hand. or
better yet. with both. and in the mind Of
each is a fundamental deep-seated re-
spect for the able, competent. thrifty,
and peaceable worker. and a CORE
spending dislike and antipathy to the