Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-17
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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 clu-
zens became aroused and indignant at
the efforts of the labor unions thru
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 G. W.
Post to obey the orders" of the UNI
ions to take the Postum advertising
away from various papers that refused
to puchase labor of the labor trust -
the unions.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the un-
ions 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 busl-
ness. They had done no wrong, pqt
had found it inconvenfent and against
their best Judgment to buy labor OF the
labor trust. 1t seems rule or the I'M
ions to conspire to ruin anyone VINO
does not purchase from them upon
their own terms.
An ink maker or paper maker VINO
failed to sell ink or paper would nave
the same reason to order PoSt 10 help
ruin these publishers. So the peddler
in the street might stone you III 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 pc
cause they did not patroniZe him, ana
so on to the ridiculous and Vllllanous
| limit of all this boycott nonsense IN
trying to force people to buy what they
| do not want.
| If man has labor to sell, let 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
obstruct the business, or attempt TO
ruin because the owner will not pur-
chase of him.
The unions have become SO tyran-
nous and arrogant with their depotlsm
that a common citizen who has some
time to spare and innocently thinks he
has a right to put little paint on MS
| own house, finds he must nave that
paint taken off and put on again py
! "the union or all sorts of dire things
| happen to him, his employer IS ordered
to discarge him, his grocer is boycottea
if he furnishes him supplies, his fam
ilv followed and insulted and his life
made more miserable than that OF a
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
Httla 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 LIE
miserable for him.
So the white slave is tied hand ana
foot unable to lift hand to better
himself or to do the needful Things,
without first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and ABUSIVE
tryrant of some labor union.
II would all seem rather like comic
opera, if it did not rob people OF their
freedom; that kind of work will not pc
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 ana
force workmen and citizens to obey
implicitly, stripping them right and left
of their liberties.
They have used boycotting, pickett
ing. assaults, dynamiting Of property,
and murder to enforce their orders and
rule the people. They have gone TAR
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 government of and for the
people and no organization or trust
shall displace it. But the unions try
it every now and then, led by desper-
ate men as shown in their defiance
Of law and support Of law breakers
The union" record Of assaults, Grip
pling 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 perpe-
trated by slave owners during any
two years previous to the civil war. We
are In horrible period Of lethargy
which permits us to stand idly by While
our American citizens are abused, Grip
pied and murdered in dozens and hun.