The Tupelo journal., 1905-02-03
Result Of Boycott,

| 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 cltl-
| 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 industrles-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 DelnS
| brought to bear to punish the indus
tries of Battle Creek, and particularly
| the Postum Co.
| This sprung from the refusal of &. 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.
| MIR. 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 MS
| business. They had done no wrong,
| bL, had found it inconvenient and
| against their best judgment to buy Ia
| Dor of the labor trust. 1t seems rule
of the unions to eonspire to ruin any
| one who does not purchase from them
| upon their own terms.
| An ink maker or paper maker who
| failed TO sell ink or paper would nave
| the same reason to order Post TO help
| ruin these publishers. So the peddler
in the street might stone you II you
| refused to buy his apples; the cabman
to run over you if you refused to rlde
| 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 a man has labor to sell let 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 OBJ
| struct the business, or attempt its rum
| 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 a right to put 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
| err is ordered to discharge him, his gro
| Ger is boycotted if he furnishes him
| supplies. his family followed and in
suited and his life made more miser-
| able than that of a black slave before
| the war. If he drives nail to repair
| the house or barn the carpenter S
union" hounds him. He takes pipe
wrench to stop a leaking pipe and pre-
| vent damage 10 his property and the
| plumbers union does things to him.
| He 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 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
| himself or do the needful things with
out first obtaining permission from
some naughty ignorant and abusive
tyrant of some labor union.
1t would all seem rather like comic
opera. if it did not rob people of their
| freedom; that kind of work will not lie
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 it possible for them
to lay down the law in some cities and
force workmen and citizens 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
to order the President to remove GER
tain 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 lead
ers dominate even the chief Executive.
This is a government of and for the
people and no organization or trust
shall displaee 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.
The union" record of assaults, Grip
ping of men and even women and chill
dren. destruction of property and MUIR
der of American citizens during the
past 2 years is perhaps 10 times the
volume of crime and abuse perpetrat-
ed by slave owners during any two
years previous to the civil war. We
are in a horrible period OF lethargy
which permits us to stand idly by
while our American citizens are abused
crippled and murdered in dozens and