The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
POSTUM CEREAL.

The only place in the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes,
lockouts and labor warfare Is Battle
Creek, Mich
Tho 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 30 destroy the business
Of one of our largest lndustrles-the
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, and at the open
threats in the official union papers, that
the entire power OF the National and
State declarations 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 c. W.
Post to obey the orders of the unions
10 take the Postum advertising away
from various papers that refused to pur-
chase labor OF the labor trlst-the unions
Mr.. Post was ordered TO JOIN the unions
in their conspiracy 10 rum 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. but had found it IN
convenient and against their best iudg
meat to buy labor OF the labor trust 1t
seems a rule of the unions to'conspire 20
ruin any one who doee not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An ink maker or paper maker who
failed to sell ink or paper would have the
came reason to order Post 10 help rum
these publishers. SO the peddlcr IN the
street might stone you if you refused to
buy bis apples. the cabman 10 run over
YOU If YOU refused TO ride with him, the
grocer order the manufacturer TO dis
charge certain people because they did
not patronize him, and so on TO the ride
ulous and vllainous limit OF all this boy
colt nonsense, in trying TO force people
to buy what they do not want
re a man has labor to sell let him sell
il AT the best price he can get just as he
would sell wheat. but he has no right to
even intimate that he will obstruct the
business, or attempt it's ruin because the
owner will not pure base OF hun.
The unions have become so tyrannous
and arrogant with their despotsm that
A common citizen who has some time 10
spare and innocently thinks he has
right to put a little pant on his own
house finds he must have that paint
taken of and put on again by the
union or all sorts Of dire things happen
to him, his employer is ordered TO dis
charge him, his grocer is boycotted If he
| furnishes nm supplies. his family fol-
I lowed and insulted and his life made
more miserable than that of black slave
| before the war. If he drives a nail to
repair the house or barn the carpenter 3
union hounds him. He takes a pipe
wrench to stop leaking pipe and pre-
vent damage 10 his property and the
plumbers union does things to him.
! He cannot put little mortar to loose
| brick on his chimney or the bricklayers,
plasterers or bod carriers union Is up
/ In arms and if he carelessly eats loaf
/ of bread that has no union label on II
the bakers union proceeds to make life
miserable for him.
So the white slave is tied hand and
foot unable to lift hand to better him
self or do the needful things without
first obtaining permission from some
naughty, ignorant and abusive tyrant oil
some labor union.
II would all seem rather like comic
opera, il it did not rob people OF their
freedom; that kind OF work will not be
permitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have built w
the labor trust in the last few years, e
bring themselves money and power ano
by managing workmen, have succeeded
in making il possible for them to lay
down the law in some cities and force
workmen and citizens 10 obey i'm
plicitly. stripping them right and LEFT
Of their liberties.
They have used boycotting, picketing
assaults, dynamiting of property ano
murder TO enforce their orders and rult
the people. They have gone far enough
to order the President 70 remove certair
citizens from Office because the unions
weren't pleased.
That means they propose TO make tht
law of the unions, replace the law OF thu
Government and the union leaders doml'
nate even the Chief Executive.
This is a Government OF and for the
people and no organization or trust shal
displace it. But the unions try II every
now and then led by desperate men a.
show in their defiance OF law and sup
port Of law breakers
The union record Of assaults Grip
ping of men and even women and chill
oren, destruction Of property and murder
of American citizens during the past two
wears is perhaps ten times the volume
of crime and abuse perpelrated by slave
owners during any two years previou:
TO the civil war. We are in a horrible
period of lethargy, which permits u;
10 stand idly by while our American cii'