The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1905-03-04
f e ult 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 bust
ness of one of our largest industries
the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, and at the
open threats in the official union pa
pers that the entire power of the Ma
was being brought to bear to punish"
the industries 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 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 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 inconvenient and
against their best judgment to buy
labor of the labor trust. 1t seems a
rule of the unions to conspire to ruin
anyone who does not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An inkmaker or papermaker who
failed to sell ink or paper would have
the same reason, to order Post to help
ruin these publishers. So the ped
dler 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
manufacturer to discharge certain
people because they did not patronize
him, and so on to the ridiculous and
villainous limit of all this boycott non
sense, in trying to force people to buy
what they do not want.
!: II 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
RICH, 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 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 en-
p!oyer is ordered to discharge him, his
g"ocer is boycotted if he furnishes him
Supplies. his family followed and in
suited and his life made more mis-
cradle than that of black slave be-
fore The war. If he drives nail to
repair the house or barn the carpen-
ters' union hounds him. He takes a
pipe wrench to stop a leaking pipe
and prevent damage to his property,
and the plumbers union" does things
to him. He cannot put little mortar
to loose brick on his chimney or
the bricklayers', plasterers or hod
carriers union is up in arms, and ii
he carelessly eats loaf of bread that
has no union" label on it the bakers
"uniop" proceeds to make life miser-
able for him.
So tho white slave is tied hand and
foot. unable to lift hand to better
himself or do the needful things, with
ont first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusive
ty:ant 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
be permitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have built
ND the labor trust in the last few
years. to bring themselves money and
power and by managing work1nen,
have succeeded in mailing 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, 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 Execu-
: tive.
: This is a 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 lawbreakers.
The "union" record of assaults,
crippling of men and even women and
children, destruction of property and
murder of American citizens during
the past ten 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 horrible period of
lethargy, which permits us to stand