Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-03
Result Of Boycott.

The only place in the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes,
lockouta and labor warfare is Battle
Creek, Mich.
The story? The work people, mer-
chants, lawyers, doctors and other eiti-
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 industries-the
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd, and at the open
threats in the official union papers, that
the entire power of the National and
State Federations of Labor was being
brought to bear to punish" the indus
tries 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 pur-
chase 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 la
Dor of the labor trust. 1t seems rule
of the unions to conspire to ruin any
one 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 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 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 nc
right to even intimate that he will OBJ
struct the business, or attempt its ruiz
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 ha:
some time to spare and innocentlI
thinks he has a right to put a little
paint on his own house finds he mus
have that paint taken off and put OF
again by 1.-The union or all sorts o
dire things happen to him, his employ
er is ordered to discharge him, his gro
Ger is boycotted if he furnishes hin
supplies. his family followed and in
suited and his life made more miser
able than that of black slave befor
the war If he drives a nail to repai
the house or barn the carpenter
"union" hounds him. He takes pip
wrench to stop leaking pipe and pre-
vent damage to his property and tn
plumbers union" does things to hin
He cannot put little mortar to
loose brick on his chimney or tn
bricklayers', plasterers' or hod cal
riers' union" is up in arms, and if
carelessly eats loaf of bread that ha
no union" label on it the baker!
union" proceeds to make life misel
able for him.
So the white slave is tied hand an
foot, unable to lift hand to bette
himself or do the needful things with
out first obtaining permission frol
some naughty, ignorant and abus;v
tyrant of some labor union.
1t would all seem rather like a conf
opera, if it did not rob people of the
freedom; that kind of work will not /
permitted long in America.
Some smooth managers have built u
the labor trust in the last few years,
bring themselves money and powe
and h. managing workmen have SUI
ceeLed in making it possible for the
to lay down the law in some cities ar
force worlmen and citizens to "obey
implicitly, stripping them right al
left of their liberties.
They have used boycotting, picketin
assaults, dynamiting of property al
murder to enforce their orders and ru
the people. They have gone far enoul
to order the President to remove ce
tain citizens from Office because Il
ONIONS" weren't pleased.
That means they propose to NAL
the law of the unions replace the la
> OF this government and the union lea
ers dominate even the chief EXecutiy
This is n government of and for {
3 people and no organization or tru
shall displace it. But the unions try
every now and then, led by despera
men as shown in their defiance of ID
and support of law breakers.
The union" record of assaults. cri
T. pllng of men and even women and ch
dren, destruction of property and mi
v der of American citizens during t
past years is perhaps 10 times
volume OF crime and abuSe perpetr
ed by slave owners during any t
of,tf1