The San Francisco call., 1905-05-08

are denounced by the public for their
association with the others.
If these high-grade men would
withdraw from the mismanaged bands
OF outlaws and set uD a union where
good workmanship was the test. and
then offer their hrst-elass labor at
even higher prices than common, with
their contracts made legally respon-
Sible, and If it became known that
when buyer of labor didn't care to
purchase. this union would peaceably
offer its labor elsewhere. but not go
bullying about like a lot of bandits
and lawbreakers. they would then
command the admiration and respect
of the entire community, for people
F, like to see workmen prosperous. OBJ
serve the high position in the minds of
the public that the Locomotive En-
gineers have won for themselves by
| just this plan of procedure
| Many and many high grade man is
an unwilling associate and member of
| the anarchy tainted unions, and be
seeks freedom somehow, somewhere.
! Help him.
| 1t is ne insult to tell man he is In
place that stinks, he may know and
i deplore 1T, but if he defends the stink
ing place he insults himself.
CRIMINAL BRAND
| So when you hear a union man de-
nounce those who point out the crimes
/ of the unions and seek to purify them
/ you may know to certainty that he is
| OF the anarchist. criminal type and
/ squirms when the sunlight OF publicity
/ * turned upon him. Among this class
! will be found the majority OF labor
paper editors.
| We should demand of our public
! officials that they proceed as they did
/ in the beef trust and give the people
4 protection from this labor trust that
oppresses the common people more
than a dozen meat or oil trusts.
, What Is cent or two on a gallon OF
oil as compared with the hundreds of
| thousands of decent bread -earners
thrown out of work from time to time
and the hundreds of millions Of dollars
| in business lost to the people by the
withdrawal of capital from industry.
REFUSE To BUILD
1t is a common remark nowadays
/ that no one but a fool will start a new
building or new industry and subject
| himself to the tremendous losses. in
dignities and worry from the labor
/ unions.
| The proposed building operations and
new industries that have been aban-
doned In the past two years amount in
dollars and cents lost to our work peo-
pie more than would keep an army in
/ Citizens. high and low, you must rise
in your might and free yourselves from
/ this worst of all trusts-this startling
menace to human liberty. 1t is before
| you and its injuries are felt by every
man but the few eaSy-living leaders
who have by organization OF the fifteen
per cent of workmen threatened the
complete domination Of the eighty-five
per cent Of unorganized citizens.
This fair country has already been
/ injured hundreds of millions Of dollars
and its people subjected TO countless
scores of indignities by the labor trust.
ACT
We have conspiracy and trust laws.
Write President Roosevelt urging that
he direct the proper Government off,
GERS to do their duty with this most
ruinous of all trusts, then don't forget
your own duty towards the boycott. the
union label and TO organize your towns
for protection.
Read this article over again carefully
and act c. w. POST.
N. B. You ask what motive inspires
me to pay about $4,000 90 TO print this
proclamation Of freedom in the
various papers in the United States
sure TO bring down on me hundreds
more of coarse, vilifying. abusive let
tiers from labor union thugs and many
kind letters from lawabiding members
OF Unions.
The officials Of the Labor Commits
sioner's Office Of Michigan say I pay
the highest wages in the State for like
work But will not bow TO the comic
opera kings and potentates of the la
Dor unions or allow them to ''uni0nize''
the Postum factories Therefore thew
boycott Postum" and ''Grape-Nuts-'
/ i was trained to run my business and
they were not; yet they propose to and
their abuse has been sufficient to In
terest me in study OF the fearful con-
ditions that confront our country to-
day.
i The people OF the world have given
me money enough to spend In these
talks through the papers in trying to
make better and safer conditions for
the common people, whether the Pos
tum business runs or not.
Scores Of letters have come 10 me
from work people and others. some
from union men. recounting their suf-
ferings from union domination and
urging that their cases be laid before
the public.
II will not answer for US to only SYM
pathize with the poor. the oppressed.
those who haven't power enough TO
drive on tyrants and resent oppression.
we must help them tie the hands OF
the oppressors- Americans must act
i Some Of my forebears in New Eng
land left comfortable homes. took with
them the old flint locks slept on the
ground In rain and frost: hungry. foot
sore. and half clothed they grimly
pushed on where the Eternal God OF
Human Liberty urged them They
wove for me and for you a mantle OF
freedom. woven in a loom where the
shuttles were cannon balls and bullets
and where swords were used to pick
out the tangles In the yarn
These old. sturdy granddads Of ours
stood by that loom until the mantle
was finished. then. stained with their
! life blood Il was handed down to US.
Shall refuse 10 bear II on nv should
ers because the wearing costs me a
few dollars. and are you towards
enough to hide yours because some
foreign labor union anarchist orders
you to strip II of
/ have faith that the blood OF IT'S
still coursing in your veins viii tfnzie
and call until you walken. Then Amerf-
cans will Act. @. W. POST