The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-17

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 cit- izens became aroused and indignant It 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 pa pers, that the entire power of the Ma tional and State Federations of LaNor was being brought to bear to ''punis1 |" the industries of Battle 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 Postum advertising away from various papers that refused to purchase labor of the labor trust the unions. a.
 Mir. Post was ordered ito join the unions in their conspiracy to run" and put out of business" these publishers who had worked faithfully for him for years, and helped build up his business They had done no wrong, bu' had found it inconvenient and against their best Judgment to buy labor of the la Dor trust. It seems q rule of the unions to conspire to ruin anyone who does net purchase from them upon their own terms.
 An ink maker or paper maker who failed to sell ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin these publishers. So the pe7dler In the street might stone you if you refused to buy his apples; the cabmap to run over you if you refused to ride with him; the grocer order the manu- facturer to discharge certain people because they did not patronize him, and so on to the ridiculous and vil- famous limit of all this boycott non sense, in trying to force people to buy what they do not want.
 If man has labor to sell lot him sell it at the best price he can get just as he would sell wheat. but he has no right to even intimate that he will ob- struct the business, or attempt is ruin because the owner will not pur- chase of him.
 The unions have become so tyran- nous and arrogant with their despo'- ism that q common citizen who has some time to spare and innocHntly thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have that naint taken off and pit on again by the union" or all sorts of dire things happen to him, his employ CT is ordered to discharge him. his grocer is boycotted if he furnishes him supplies, his family followed and in- suited and his life made more miser- able than that of n black slave before the war If he drives a nail to repair the house or barn the carpenters 8 "union" hounds him. He takes a pipe wrench to stop n 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 on his chimney or the brickIayers. plasterers or bod carriers "union" Is up in arms and if he care lessly eats a loaf of bread that has no union label on it the bakers union" proceeds to make life miserable for him.
 So the white slave Is tied hand and foot unable to lift a hand to better himself or 10 the needful things, with out first obtaining permission from some naughty. ignorant and abusive tyrant of some labor union.
 It would all seem rather like a comic opera, if 1t did not rob people of their freedom; that kind of work will not be permitted long in America.
 Some smooth managers have built up the labor trust In the last few years. to bring themselves money and power and by managing .workmen, have sue ceeded in making 1t possible for tn m hO iiS GuNi lI'f ldW HI oOillO NAAicS e'AO force workmen and citizens to obey implicitly, stripping them right and left of their liberties.
 They have used boycotting, picket ing. assaults. dynamiting of property and murder to enforce their orders and rule the people. They have gone far enough to order the President to re- move certain citizens from office be- cause the 'Uaions' wern't pleased.
 That means they propose to make the law of the unions. replace the law of this government a~~ the union leaders dominate even the Chief Executive.
 This Is government of and for the people and no organization or trust shall displace it. But he unions try it every now and then. led by desp r. ate men shown in their defiance of law and support of law breakers.
 The union" record of assaults. crip- bling of men and even women and children. destruction of property and murder of American citizens dur ne. the past two years is perhaps ten fl roes the volume of crime and abuse perpe- trated by slave owners during any WI years previous to the civil war. We are in a horrible period of lethargy which permits us to stand idly bv while our American citizens are abused. crippled and murdered in dozens and hundreds by an organ 'za- ton or trust, having for it's purp Jse.