The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-02-03
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 industrics-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, 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 to build up
his business. TheX had done no wrong,
but had found 1t inconvenient and
against their best judgment to buy
labor of the labor trust It seems a
rule of the unions to conspire to ruin
anyone who does not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An ink maker or paper maker who
I'D TO ir,1- n,11f Il II We
the same reason to order Post to help
ruin these publishers. So the peddler
In the street might stone you if you
refused to buy his apples: the cabman
to run over you If you refused 10 ride
with him; the grocer order the manu-
facturer to discharge certain people be-
cause they did not patroniZe him, and
80 on to the ridiculous and villainous
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 let him
sell it at the best price he can get just
as he would sell wheat, hut he has, no
right to even intimate that he will OBJ
struct the business, or attempt its ruin
because the owner will not purchase of
him.
The unions have become so tyran-
nous and arrogant with their despot-
ism that 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 employ
er is ordered to discharge him, hts 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 black slave before
the war. If he drives nail to repair
the house or barn. the carpenter S
union hounds him. He takes a pipe
!: wrench to stop a leaking pipe and pre-
!. vent damage to his property and the
:: plumbers "union" does things to him:
z He cannot put little mortar to- a
loose brick on his chimney or the brick
layers, lasterers orhod carriers .'union''
is up in rms and If lie carelessly eats
a loaf of bread that has,n.ho union
label on 1T, the bakers 'i1inon". pro-
ceeds TO make life miserable 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
! tyrantlof some labor union.
It would ali seem rather like com.
&c 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
/ up the labor trust in the last few
/ years, to bring themselves money and
power and by managing workmen
have succeeded in making it possible
for them 10 lay down the law in some
cities and force workmen and citizens
! to "obey" implicitly, stripping them
right and ''eft<of. their liberties.
They have: used boycotting, picket
ing, assaults, dgnamiting Of property
and mn der to enforce their orders and
rule the ,,e pie. They have gone fal
enough to order the President to re
move certain citizens from Office be
cause the unions" wern't pleased.
That means they propose to make
the law of the, unions replace the law
f'this government and the union lead
ers dominate even the Chief Execu
tive.
This is a government Of and for the
people and no organiZat ton or. trus
shall displace It, But the unions try i
every now: and then, led by desperate
men as shown In their defiance of Law
and supr-r 1T Of law breakers.
The -, ON, record Of. assaults, Grip
pling of men and even, women. AM
n1sluQ1