The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-03-11
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 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,
BIZ had found it inconvenient and
against their best judgment to buy la
Dor of the labor trust. 1t seems rule
of the unions to conspire 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 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 yillainous
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 Jet him
sell 1t 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 win not purchase
of him.
The unions have become 3, 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 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. II he drives nail to repair
| the house or barn the carpenters
union" hounds him. He takes pipe
wrench to stop leaking pipe and pre-
vent 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
bricklaye-s'. plasterers' or bod car
riers' union" Ia up in arms, and If he
carelessly eats a loaf of bread that has
no 'union" label on 1t 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, II it 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 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 fer enough
to order the President to remove Ger
tain citizens from Office because the
"Unions" weren't pleased.
That means they propose to make
tbs law of the unions replace the Law
o. this government and the union lead.
yrs dominate even the chief Executive
This is government OF and for the
people and no organization or trusl
shall displace 1t. 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 ana mlr
der of American citizens during thu
past z years is perhaps 10 times tn,
volume of crime and abuse perpetrat
ed by slave owners during any TIVE
years previous to the civil war. WI
are in horrible period Of lethargy
which permits us to stand idly b,
while our American citizens are abused
crippled and murdered in dozens ant