The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1905-02-03
r e suit Of Boycott.

The only place in the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes
lockouts and labor warfare IL Battle
Creek. Mich.
The story The work people. mer
chants. lawyers. doctors and other ci,l
zens became aroused aud indignant At
the EFFORTS Of the labor unions through.
out the country to destroy the bust
ncss Of one Of our largest industries
the Postum Cereal Co. It'd. and At the
open threats In the ofnclal union pa.
per- that tho entire power Of the Ma.
tlonal and State Federations Of Labor
was being brought to bear 10 punish"
the industries ~ Battle Creek. and
particularly the Postum Co.
THIS sprung from the refusal Of G.
W. Post 20 obey the orders" of the
unions to take the Postum advertising
away from various papers that refused
TO purchase labor OF the labor trust
the unions
Mr. Post was ordered 10 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 hpd done no wrong.
but had found Il inconyenient and
against their best judgment TO buy
labor OF the labor trust II seems a
rule Of the unions 10 consplro TO ruin
any zone who does not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An inkmaker or papermaker who
failed 20 sell Ink or paper would have
the same reason 20 order Post 10 help
ruin these publishers. So the ped.
dlor In the street might stone you II
you refused to buy his apples: the
cabman to run over you II you refused
TO ride with him: the grocer order the
manufactures TO discharge certain
people because they did not patronlze
him. and so on to tho ridiculous and
villalnous limit OF all this boycott
nonsense. In trying TO force people 10
buy what they do not want
n man has labor TO sell let him
sell II at tho best price he can get Just
~ he would sell wheat, but he has no
right to even Intimate that he viii OBJ
ntruct the business. or attempt It's ruin
because the owner will not purchase
of him.
The unions have become 30 tyran.
nous and arrogant with their dotpot
Ism that a common citizen who has
some time TO spare and inno,cnty
thinks he has a right to put little
paint ON his own house finds he must
have that paint taken on and PIT on
again by tho union or all sorts OF
dire things happen TO him, bis EN-
ployer Is ordered TO discharge hin, his
grocer is boycotted u he furnishes
him supplies. his family FOLLOWED and
insultod and his life made more mis
ernblc than that OF black slave BE-.
fore tho war. II he drives nail 70
repair the house or barn the carpen
tors union" hounds him, Tie taxes o
pipe wrench 10 stop a leaking pipe
and prevent damage 10 HIS property
and tho plumbers union" does things
20 him. Ho cannot put a little mortar
TO a loose brick ON his chimney OF
the brlcklayers'. plaaterors' or hod
carriers union is mp In arms, and II
he carelessly eats loaf OF bread that
has no union" label on II the bakers
"union" proceeds to make life miner
able for him.
SO the white slave Il tied hand ant
foot. unable to lift . hand to bcttei
himself or do tho needful thlnsS. with
out nrst obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusive
tyrant Of some labor union.
Il would all seem rather like conf,
opera II II did not rob people Of thel
freedom: that kind Of work will no
be permitted long In America
Some smooth managers have bull
up the labor trust In the last few
years. TO bring themselves money AM
power and by managing Workmen
have succeeded In making Il possible
for them to lay down the law 10 SOM
cities and force workmcn and citizen
TO "obey" implicitly, stripping then
right and left Of their liberties
They have used buycltilnF. picket
ing. assaults. dynamltIng Of propert
aud murder TO enforce their orders an
rule the people. They have gone IA
enough 10 order the prosIdtat to r,
move certain citizens from once b,
cause the unions" weren't Pleased.
That means they propose to max
the law OF the unions replace the Ia,
OF this government and the union leaC
ers dominate oven the chlSi Excel
tive.
This Is a government OF and for IN
people and no organization or trus
shall displaco A. but the unlons tr
Il every now and then led b. dospe
ate men as shown In their defiance {
law and support OF lawbreakers.
The union" record OF assault
Gripping Of men and oven women an
children. destruction Of property an
murder OF American citizens durlu
the past two years "a pefhaps te
times the volume OF crime and abu.
porpetrated by slave owners durir
any two years previous to the civ
war. We are In O horrible neriod
I, iethargy, which permits Ms 10 star
idly by while our American either
o are abused, crippled and murdered
u dozens and hundreds by an organic
ton or trust, having Tor lis purses