The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-10
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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. w.
Post, the proprietor, fobeys the orders
of the Unions.
These orders" are that he withdraw
the advertising from certain newspapers
that have fallen under their displeas-
ure.
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
upright business men and good citi-
zens. their only crime being that they
decline to turn over the management
of their papers to leaders of the labor
trusts. (alias Unions), who are general
ly ignorant, wilful. and violent men, in
capable of conducting a business.
Mr.. Post declines to be party to such
unlawful conspiracy to financially ruin
anyone. and this together with the fact
that he has been rash enough to pub
1icly expose some of the criminal acts
of members of labor unions has produc-
ed this boycott.
The average American citizen, not
employing labor, knows little of the in
sufferable arrogance, impudence, and
violence of the ignorant DULLES, decor
ated with brief power by the most tyr
annous 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 ev-
eryone 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 tongue. and who can howl
down, and by violent and loud talk,
dominate the meetings of the Unions
These men are seldom if 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 a Union
card. They bring on strikes and misery
for good worl1men, and try to. and do.
DldCkIndll employers INTO setting same
by paying them graft money. Some of
them have been Jailed for such offenses,
but the great majority still 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 pub
lie
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 laudable pur-
pose of lettering their conditions. and
TO support 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 procedure, they are hooted
and howled down by the other class.
They Try to counsel peace. equity and
Justice, but they might as well launch
a feather in 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 them
selves beaten back into submission, so