The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1905-02-02

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 citi-
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 industries-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 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
to take the Postum advertising away
from various papers that refused to pur-
chase labor of the labor trust-the
unions.
Mr.. 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 his
business. They had done no wrong,
but had found it inconyenient and
against their best judgment to buy la
Dor of the labor trust. 1t seems rule
of the unions to conspire TO ruinfany-
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 have
the same reason to order Post to help
ruin these publishers. So the peddler
in the street might stone you il you
refused to buy his apples; the cabman
to run over you if you refused to ride
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.
II a man has labor to sell let him
sell ii 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 ruin
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 right to put a little
paint on lis own house finds he must
have that paint taken off and put on
again By 1.-The union" or all sorts OF
dire things happen to him, his employ
er is ordered to discharge him, his gro
Ger is boycotted if he furnishes him
supplies. his family followed and in
suited ard his life made more miser-
able than that of black slave before
the war. Ii he drives a nail to repair
the house or barn the carpenters
union hounds him. He takes pipe
wrench to stop a leaking pipe and pre-
vent damage to his property and the
plumbers union" does things to him
He cannot put a little mortar to
loose brick on his chimney or thu
bricalayers'. plasterers' or hod car
riers' union" is up in arms, and If he
carelessly eats loaf of bread that ha:
no union" label on 1t the bakers
'union" proceeds TO make life miser
able for him.
So the white slave is tied hand ant
foot. unable to lift hand to better
himself or do the needful things with
out first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusiv'
tyrant CT some labor union.
1t would all seem rather like comic
opera. If it did not rob people of thei
freedom; that kind of work will not D.
permitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have built III
| the labor trust in the last few years, Il
| bring themselves money and power
and by managing workmen have sue
| ceeded in making it possible for then
| to lay down the law in some cities an
| force workmen and citizens to obey
implicitly, stripping them right an
left cf their liberties.
They have used boycotting, picketins
assaults, dynamiting of property an
murder to enforce their orders and rul
the people. They have gone far enoug
to order the President to remove ce'
| tain citizens from Office because tn
"Unio.s'' weren't pleased.
That means they propose to max
| the law of the unions replace the la
OF this government and the union lea@
ers dominate even the chief Executive
| This is government of and for tn
people and no organization or trui
shall displace it. But the unions try
every now and then. led by despera'
men rs shown in their defiance OF Ia
| ana support of law breakers.
Tho union record Of assaults, cril
Ming OF men and even women and chi
/ dren. destruction of property and mu
der Of American citizens during u
past 3 years is perhaps 10 times u
| volume Of crime and ehuse perpetra
cd by slave owners during any y
i Years previous to the civil war. y
are ii : horrible period of lethare
Which permits rs TO stand IDLY
While cur American citixens sre aouss
crippled and murdered y do1eee =