The San Francisco call., 1905-01-17

The orly place IN the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes,
lockouts and labor warfare is Battle
Creek, Mich.
The story? The workpeople. 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 industries-the
Postum Cereal Co, Lt'd, and at the
open threats In the official union pa
pers that the entire power of the Ma
tional State Federations Of Labor was
being brought to bear to punish" the
Industries of Battle Greek, and partic-
ularly the Postum Company.
This sprung from the refusal OF Q.
w. Post to obey the orders" of the
unions to take the Postum advertising
away from various papers that refuse
to purchase labor of the fabor trust
the unions.
Mr.. Post was ordered to join the un-
ions in their conspiracy to ruin" ana
put out of business" these publishers
who had worked faithfully for him for
years, and helped build up his busi-
ness. They had done no wrong, but
had found it inconvenient and against
their best judgment to buy labor or
the labor trust. 1t seems q rule or 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
run over you If you refused to ride
with him; the grocer order the man
ufacturer to discharge certain people
because they did not patronize him,
and SO on to the ridiculous and villain
Gus 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
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 OBJ
struct the business or attempt it's 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 right to put a little
paint on his own house finds he must
have that paint taken off and put on
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dire things happen to him, his employ
er is ordered to discharge him, his gro
Ger is boycotted If he furnishes him sup
plies, his family followed and insulted
and his life made more miserable than
that of a black slave before the war.
If he drives nail to repair his house
or barn the carpenters union" hounds
him. He takes pipe wrench to stop
a leaking pipe and prevent damage
o,,1 he vl1r o1,oJ- tfTIYl-
ion" does things to him. He cannot
put a little mortar to a loose brick on
his chimney or the bricklayers'. plas-
terers' or hod carriers union" is up
in arms and If he carelessly eats
loaf of bread that has no union"
label on 1t the bakers union" proceeds
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
tyrant of some labor union.
II would all seem rather like a comic
opera If II 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,
70 bring themselves money and power
and. by managing worKmen, have sue
ceeded in making 1t possible for them
to Law 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" weren't pleased.
That means they propose to make the
people of the unions replace the law
Of this Government and the union lead
ers dominate even the chief executive.
This is a government of and for the
people and no Organization or trust
shall 1isplace ii. But the unions try it
every now and then, led by desperate
man as shown in their defiance of law
and support of law breakers.
The s.union" record OF assaults. Grip
Ming 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 a horrible period of
lethargy, which permits US to stand