Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-02-01

The only place In the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes.
lockouts and labor warfare is Battle
Creek, Mich
The story? The work people. mer-
chants. lawyers, doctors and other citi-
Zens became aroused and indignant at
the efforts of the labor unions through
out the country to destroy the business
of one Of our largest industries-the
Postum Cereal Co, Ltd. and at the open
threats in the official union papers, that
the entire power OF the National and
State Federations of Labor was being
brought TO bear to punish" the indus
tries of Battle Creek, and particularly
the Postum Co
This sprung from the refusal of G. w.
Post to obey the orders" of the unions
to take the Postum advertising away
from various papers that refused to pur-
chase labor of the labor trust-the
unions.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the
unions in their conspiracy to ruin"
and put out of business" these pub
fishers who had worked faithfully for
him for years and helped build up his
business. They had done no wrong,
but had found it inconvenient and
against their best judgment to buy la
Dor OF the labor trust. 1t seems a rule
OF the unions to conspire to ruin any
one who does not purchase from them
upon their own terms.
An ink maker or paper maker who
n in
the same reason to order Post to help
ruin these publishers. So the peddler
in the street might stone you if you
refused to buy his apples; the cabman
to run over you If you refused to ride
with him; the grocer order the manu-
facturer to discharge certain people be-
cause they did not patronize him, and
so on to the ridiculous and villainous
limit Of all this boycott nonsense. in
trying to force people to buy what they
do not want
If man has labor to sell let him
sell 1t at the best price he can get just
as he would sell wheat, but he has no
right to even intimate that he will OBJ
struct the business, or attempt it's ruin
because the owner will not purchase
of him.
The unions have become so tyran-
nous and arrogant with their despot-
ism that a common citizen who has
some time to spare and innocently
thinks he has right to put a little
paint on his own house finds he must
have that paint taken off and put on
again by "the union" or all sorts of
dire things happen to him. his employ
er is ordered to discharge him. his gro
Ger is Doycotted if he furnishes him
supplies, his family followed and in
suited and his life made more miser-
able than that of black slave before
the war. If he drives a nail to repair
the house or barn the carpenters
union" hounds him. He takes a pipe
wrench to stop leaking pipe and pre-
vent damage to his property and the
plumbers union" does things to him
lie cannot put little mortar to a
loose brick on his chimney or the
bricklayers', plasterers' or hod car
riers' union" is up in arms. and if he
carelessly eats a loaf of bread that has
no union" label on it the bakers
union proceeds to make life miser-
able for him.
So the white slave is tied hand and
foot, unable to lift hand to better
or do the needful things with
out first obtaining permission from
some naughty. ignorant and abusive
tyrant of some labor union.
II would all seem rather like a comic
opera. if it did not rob people of their
freedom; that kind of work will not be
permitted long i'm America.
Some smooth managers have built ND
the labor trust in the last few years. to
bring themselves money and power.
and by managing workmen have suc-
ceeded in making il possible for them
to lay down the law i'm some cities and
force workmen and others TO obey"
implicitly. stripping them right and
left Of their liberties.
They have used boycotting picketing
assaults. dynamiting Of property and
murder TO enforce their orders and rule
the people They have gone far enough
70 order the President to remove Ger.
tain citizens from Office because the
Unions weren't pleased
That means they propose IN make
ine law OF the unions replace the law
'ol lhls government and the union lead
ers dominate even the chief Executive
rms Is government of and for the
people and no organization or trust
shall displace it. But the unions try II
every now and then, led by desperate
men as shown in their defiance OF law
and support OF law breakers.
Inc union record Of assaults. erin
ping OF men and even women and chill.
dren destruction Of property and muir
der OF American citizens during the
past years Is perhaps 10 times tho
volume Of crime and abuse perpetrat.
ed by slave owners during any two
years previous TO the civil war We
are In horrible period of Ieiharrv