The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-17
Result of Boycott.

The only place in the United States that guarantees freedom from. strikes. iockouts and labor warfare is Battle Creek, Mich.
 The story? The work people, mer- chants, lawyers, doctors and other citi- zens became aroused and indignant at the efforts of the labor lunions through out the country to destfoy the business of one of our largestt industries-the Postum Cereal Go, Lt'd, and at the open threats in the offifial union papers that the entire power of the National and State Federations lot Labor was be- ing brought to bear tot punish the in- dustries of Battle Creek, and particu- larly the Postum Co.
 This sprung from the refusal of c. 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.
 MT. Post was ordered to join the un- ions in their conspiracy to ruin" and put out of business" these publishers 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. It seems rule of the unions to conspire to ruin any one who does not purchase from them upon their own terms.
 I 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 i the street might stone you if you re- fused to buy his apples; the cabnan to run over you if 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 viilainous 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 | 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 obstruct 1 the business, or attempt it's rain be- cause the owner will not purchase of him.
 The unions have become so tyrannous and arrogant with their despotism that 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 un- ion" or all sorts of dire things happen to him, his employer is ordered to dis charge him, his grocer Is boycotted if he furnishes him supplies, his family followed and insulted and his life made more miserable than that of black slave before the war, If he drives nail to repair the house or barn the car penters union hounds him. He takes pipe wrench to stop q leaking pipe and prevent damage to his property and the plumbers union" does things to him. He cannot put a little mortar to a loose brick on his chimney or the brickiayers, plasters or hod carriers union is up in arms, and if he care lessly eats loaf of bread that has no union label on it 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 him. self or do the needful things, without first obtaining permission from some naughty, ignorant and abusive tyrant of some labor union. 9, "a. - | It would all seem rather like q comic opera, if it did not rob people of their freedom; that kind of work will not be permitted long in America. ...a3..... l hos the labor trust in the last few years, to bring themselves money and power, and by managing workmen, have succeeded in making 1t possible for them to lay down the law In some cities and force workmen and citizens to .obey" implic- itly, stripping them right and left of their liberties. ~-@@ | They have used boycotting, picketing, assaults, dynamiting of property and murder to enforce their orders and rule | the people. They have gone far enough to order the President to remove certain citizens from office because the "Un- ions' weren't pleased. ,>@,
 1 That means they propose to make the law of the unions, replace the law of this government and the union leaders dominate even the chief Executive.
 This is government of and for the people and no organization or trust shall displace 1t. 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, crip- bling of men and even women and chil dren, destruction of property and mur- der 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 horrible period of lethargy, which per mits us to stand idly by while our