Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-17

The only place in the United States that guar
antees freedom from strikes lockout and labor war
fare is Battle Greek. Mich.
The storyP The work people, merchants, law
and indignant at the efmts of the labor unions
throughout the country to destroy the business Of
one Of our largest industfies-the Postum Cereal
Co., Ltd, and at the open threats In the official
union papers, that the entire power of the Ma
tional and State declarations of labor was being
brought to bear to punish the industries of Bat
| tie Creek and particularly the Postum Co.
This sprung from the refusal of C. W. Post to
obey the orders of the unions to take the Pos
tum advertising away from various papers that
refused to purchase labor of the labor trust-the
unions. sn'E .-,.c
Mr.. Post was ordered To join the unions in their
ccrspiraey to ruin and sput out OF business
these publishers who had worked faithfully for
him for years, and helped build up his business.
They had done no wrong but had found 1t incon-
venien and against their best judgment to buy Ia
Dor of the labor trust 1t rule of the
unions to conspire to ruin anyone who does not
purchase from them upon their own terms.
An ink maker paper maker who failed to sell
Post to help ruin these publishers So the peddler
in the street might stone you you refused to
buy his apples; the cabman to you If you
refused to ride with him. the grocer order the
manufacturers to discharge certain people because
they did not patronize him. and to the ride
ulous and villainous limit OF all this boycott
sense, 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 get, just he would sell wheat
but he has right to even intimate that he will
the owner will not purchase Of him.
The unions have become SO tyrannous and AFRO
giant with their despotism that common citizen
who has some time to spare and innocently thinks
be has right to putt little paint his
house finds he must have that paint taken Off and
put again by ''the union all sorts of dire
things happen to him, his employer is ordered to
discharge him, his grocer is boycotted if he fur
nishes him supplies his family followed and In
suited and his life made miserable than that
of a black slave before the war. If he drives a
nail to repair the house barn the carpenters
"uniOn'' hounds i'm He TAX n nine
stop leaking pipe and prevent damage to his
property and the plumbers union does things to
him. He cannot put little mortar to a loose
brick his chimney or the bricklayers, pasterers
or bod carriers union is up in arms, and If he
earelessly eats loaf of bread that has union
label on it the bakers s'union' proceeds to make
life miserable for him.
So the white slave Is -qea hand and foot. unable
to lift hand to bettercffmself or do the needful
things, without first eitaiaing permission from
seme naughty, ignorantl land abusive tyrant OF
some labor uniop.a II IS II
It would all seem raesbbsr Ike ? comic opera, if
it did not rob people Of Their freedom; that kind
of work will not be persasitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have built up the labor
trust in the last few gsars, to bring themselves
money and power, and by managing workmen have
succeeded in making it. possible for them to lay
down the law In somA Spies and force workmen
ami citizens to "obeyyT Implicitly. stripping them
right and left of their liberties
They have used boycot2ing pIcketing. assaults,
dynamtlng of property and murder to enforce their
orders and rule the people. They have gone far
enough to order the President to remove certain
citizens from Office because the unions" weren't
pleased.
That means they propose to make the law of the
unions replace the law Of this government and the
| union leaders dominate even the chief executive.
This Is a government Of and for the people, and
no organization or trust shah displace It. But the
unions try 1t every now and then led by desperate
men. as shown in their defiance Of law and sup
port Of law breakers.
The .union record Of assaults, crippling Of men,
and even women and children. destruction Of prop