The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-02-02

The only place In the usAted StateS
taat guarantees freedom tsom strikes.
lockouts and labor warfaa, is Battle
Creek, Mich.
The story? The work people, mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors a1i other citi-
zens became aroused and Indignant at
the efforts Of the labor uni,4ns through
out the country to destroy She business
of one of our largest inc lstries-the
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, and at the
open threats in the officii.l union pa
pers, that the entire powe: of the Ma
tional and State FederatiSns Of Labor
was being brought to beal 10 punish"
the industries of Battle Creek, and
particularly the Postum O..
This sprung from the lSfusal Of c.
W. Post to obey the ''O-lers at the
unions to take the Postum advertising
away from various papers that refused
to purchase labor of the .ibor trust
the unions.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the
unions in their conspiraey to ruin"
and put out Of business these pub
fishers who had worked t,ithfully for
him for years, and helped to build up
his business. They had d0ue no wrong,
but had found it incoE.>enieht and
against their best judgn snt to buy
labor of the labor trust. 1t sesms a
rule Of the unions to cGnsSire To ruin
anyone who does not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An ink maker or papes @7ksr who
fai fn coil irI- yHSS5td nave
the same reason to order Post 70 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 to ride
with him; the grocer order the manu-
facturer to discharge certain people be-
cause 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.
If man has labor to sell let him
sell 1t at the best price he can get just
as he would sell wheat, but he has no
right to even intimate that he will oh
struct the business, or attempt its ruin
because the owner will not purchase OF
him.
The unions have become 40 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 employ
er is ordered to discharge him. his 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 Il black slave before
the war. If he drives nail to repair
the house or barn the carpenters
union" hounds him. He takes Il pipe
wrench to stop Il leaking pipe and pre-
vent damage TO his property and the
plumbers union" does things to him.
He cannot put a little mortar to Il
loose brick on his chimney or the brick
layers, plaStererS or hOd carriers union
is ND In arms and if he carclesSly eats
a loaf of bread that has no ''union"
label on it the bakers union pro-
ceeds to make life miserable for him.
So the white slave is tied hand and
foot unable to lift a hand 20 better
himself or do the needful things, with
out first obtaining permission from
some naughty, ignorant and abusive
tyrant of some labor union.
1t would all seem rather like COM
ic 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 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 wern'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 government of and for tie
people and no organization or trust
shall displace it. But the unions try it
every now and then, led by desperate
men as shown in their defiance of law
and support of law breakers.
The union" record of assaults, Grip
pling of men and even women and
children, destruction of property and
murder of American citizens during
the past two 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 q horrible period Of
iethargy. which permits US TO stand
Idly by while cur American citizens