Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-02-02
Result of Boycott.

The only place in the United State:
that guarantees freedom from strikes
lockouts and labor warfare il Battle
Greek, Mich.
The story: The work people. mcr
chants. lawyers. doctors and other citi
zens became aroused and indignant al
the efforts of the labor unions through
out the country to destroy the business
of one of our largest industrics-tht
Postum Cereal Co. Ltd. and ut tho
open threats in the official union pa,
pers, that the entire power of the Ma
tional and State declarations 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 c
w. Post to obey the orders OF thu
unions to take the Postum advertising
away from various pl1"rs that refused
to purchase labor of the labor trust
the unions.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the
unions in their conspiracy 10 ruin
and put out of business these pub
fishers who had worked faithfully for
him for years. and helped to build up
his business. They had done no wrong,
but had found 1t announcement and
labor of the labor trust. 1t 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
failed to sell ink or paper would have
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 il 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.
II a IA has labor TO sell let him
sell 1t MT the best price he can get just
as he would sell wheat. but he has no
right to eve 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 n common citizen who has
some time to spare and innocently
thinks he has n right to put Il little
paint OH his W house finds he must
have that paint taken off and put on
again by 1.-THE union or all sorts of
dire things happen to him. his employ
er is ordered to discharge him, his gro
Ger is %boycotted il he furnishes him
supplies, his family followed and in
suited and his life made more miser-
able than that of a black slave before
the war. If he drives Il nail to repair
the house or barn the carpenters
union hounds him. He takes Il pipe
wrench to stop a leaking pipe and pre-
vent damage to his property and the
plumbers union" does things to him.
He cannot put Il little mortar to a
lOOse brick on his chimney or the brick
layers. lasterers OF hod carriers union
is up in rms and ii lie carelessly eats
a loaf OF bread that has no union"
label OH 1t 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 to 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 "A COM
ic opera, II 1t 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 left Of their liberties.
They have used b~oycotting, picket.
Ing, assaults, dvnamiting of property
and murder to enforce their orders and
rule the re pie. 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 lend.
: dominate even the Chief Execu-
tive.
This 10 a government of and for the
people and no organization or trust
shall displace 1t. But the unions try Il
every now and then. led by desperate
men 40 shown In their defiance Of law
and support Of law breakers.
The "-.on" record Of assaults. GRIN
ping Of men and sven women and
children, ~1estruction Of property and
murder OF American citizens during
the past two years Is perhaps ten
times the volume Of crime and abuse
perpetrated ~ slave owners during
any two years previous to the Civil
War We are In Z horrible period Of
;letharU, which permits us to stand
i6ly b.. while our American, citixana