The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-17
Result Of Boycott.

The only place in the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes,
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 La
Dor was being brought to bear to pun
ish' the industries of Battle Creek, and
particularly the Postum Co.
This sprung from the refusal of G. 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.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the
unions in their conspiracy to ruin" 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 inconvenient and against their best
judgment to- buy labor Of the labor
trust. It seems rule of the unions to
.conspire to ruin anyone 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 if 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
because 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 it's ruin
because the owner will not purchase of
him.
The unions have become so tyran-
nous and arrogant with their despotisn,
that common citizen who has some
time to spare and innocently thinks he
has 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
ho h rs
to discharge him, his grocer is boycott
ted If he furnishes him supplies, his
family followed and insulted, and his
life made more miserable than that of
black slave before the war. If he
drives nail to repair the house or
barn the carpenters union" hounds
him. He takes pipe wrench to stop a
leaking pipe and prevent damage to his
property. and the plumbers union
does things to him. He cannot put a
little mortar to a loose brick on his
chimney, or the bricklayers, plasterers
or hod carriers union" is up in arms
and If he carelessly eats loaf of bread
that has no union" label ON 1t 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 do the needful things, with
out first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusive
tyrant of some labor union.
Itwould all seem rather like a comic
opera, if it did not rob people of their
freedom; that kind of work will not be
permitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have built ur
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 s'obey'
implicitly. stripping them right apd 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 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
snail dlsplace it. But the unions try il
every now and then, led by desperate
| men, as sfNwn in their defiance of law
and support Of law breakers.
The union" record of assaults, Grip
ping Of men, and even women and
children, destruction of property and
murder of American citizens during the
past two years is perhaps ten times the
volume of crime and abuse perpetrated
by slave owners during any two years
previous to the civil war We are in 9