Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-02-02

that guarantees freedom from strikes,
!ockouts 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 busl'
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
tional and State Federations of Labor
was being brought to bear to punish
the Industries of Battle Creek, ana
particularly the Postum Co.
This sprung from the refusal OF Z.
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 run
and put out of business these pub
fishers who had worked faithfully Tor
him for years and helped build up his
business. They had done no wrong.
hut had found it inconvenient and
against their best judgment to BUY
labor of the labor trust. 1t seems
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 tc sell ink or paper would have
the same reason to order Post to help
ruin these publishers. So the ped
der in the street might stone you II
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.
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 despot-
| ism that a 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 happen to him, his en-
ployer is ordered to discharge him, his
grocer is boycotted If he furnishes him
supplies, his family followed and in
suited and his life made more mis-
cradle than that of a black slave be-
| fore the war. If he drives a nail to
repair the house or barn the carpen-
ters' union hounds him. He takes a
pine wrench to stop a leaking pipe
and prevent damage to his property,
and tho plumbers union does things
to- him. He cannot put little mortar
IA u loose brick on his chimney or
the bricklayers', plasterers or nod
carriers union" is up in arms, and II
no carelessly eats loaf of bread that
has no 'uniOn" label on it the bakers
"union" proceeds to make life miser-
able 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
ont first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusive
tyrant of some labor union.
II would all seem rather like comic
onera if it did not rob people OF then
frecdom; that kind of work will not
he permitted long in America.
u Some smooth managers have Dull'
ny tho labor trust in the last Few
years, to bring themselves money ano
power and by managing workmen
have succeeded in making it possible
for them to lay down the law in some
cities and force workmen ana clliZehs
to "obey" implicitly, stripping then
wight and left OF their liberties.
l., They have used boycotting, picket
/. ing assaults, dynamiting OF propert!
and murder to enforce their orders ant
; rule the people. They have gone ia
c enough to order the President to re
# move certain citizens from office be
cause the unions" weren't pleased.
a That means they propose to max
NJ the law of the unions replace the law
4 of this government and the union lead
ers dominate even the Chief EXeco
{ tive.
This is a government of and for tn
$ people, and no organization or trus
&C. shall displace it. But the unions tr
it every now and then, led by despel
&c ate men. as shown in their defiance
| Lon. ana Sunnort laWhreakerS.