The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1905-02-08

CnantS, lawyers, uOCtOTS anu Otiei VII
zens became aroused and indignant at
the efforts of the labor unions through
out the country to destroy the busi-
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. and
particularly the Postum Co.
This sprung from the refusal OF G.
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. II 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 to 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 II 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
nonsense, 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
right to even intimate that he will OBJ
gtruct 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 a common citizen who has
some time to spare and innocently
thinks he has a right to put a 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
lnsulted 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
fers' 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 little mortar
to a loose brick on his chimney oil
the bricklayers', plasterers' or hoe
carriers union" is up in arms, and Il
he carelessly eats loaf of bread tina
has no union" label on It the bakers
! union" proceeds to make life mi1er
, able for him.
So the white slave is tied hand ant
foot, unable to lift hand to bette
himself or do the needful things, with
out first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusive
| tyrant of some labor union.
It would all seem rather like a comb
/ opera If 1t did not rob people of thei
freedom; that kind of work will no
be permitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have bull
up the labor trust in the last few
years, to bring themselves money an
power and by managing workmen
have succeeded in making 1t possibl
for them to lay down the law in som
cities and force workmen and citizen
80 "obey" implicitly, stripping ther
right and left of their liberties.
They have used boycotting, pickle
ing, assaults. dynamiting of propert
and murder to enforce their orders an
rule the people. They have gone ia
enough to order the President to RI
move certain citizens from office bt
cause the unions" weren't pleased,
) That means they propose to max
the law OF the unions replace the la'
Of this government and the union leaC
ers dominate even the chief Execl
tive.
This is a government of and for tn
t people and no organization or trus
4 shall displace it. But the unions tr
0 Il every now and then, led By despe
4 ate men as shown In their defiance {
= law and support of lawbreakers.
r The union" record Of assault
C Gripping OF men and even women an
a children, destruction Of property an
+ murder of American citizens durin
I the past two years is perhaps te
z times the volume OF crime and abus
! perpetrated by slave owners durin
I any two years previous to the civ
!. war. We are in horrible period
: lethargy, which permits us to stan
h idly by while our American either
8 are abused crippled and murdered
dozens and hundreds by an organic
ton or trrst, having for its purDos