The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-17
Result of Boycott.

The only place in the United States
that guarantees freedom from strikes,
lcckouts and labor warfare is Battle
Crook, Mich.
The story? The work people. mer-
chants lawyers. doctors and other
citizens became aroused and indignant
AT the efforts of the labor unions
throughout the country TO destroy the
business of one of our largest indus
tries-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
"a Dor was being brought to bear u
punish the Industries Of Battle
Creek. and particularly the Postum
Company.
This sprung from the refusal of G.
w. Post TO obey the orders of me
unions to take the Postum advertising
away from various papers 1hat refused
to purchase labor OF the labor trust
the unions.
Mr. Post was ordered to join the
unions i'm their conspiracy to ruin
and put oct of business these pub
fishers who had worked faithfully for
him for years, ana helped bu.ld UP his
business. They had done no wrong,
but had found it ineonNenient and
against their best Judgment to buy
(
rule OF The unions to conspirc To ruin
anyonc who does not purchase from
them upon their own terms.
An ink maker or paper who failed
t. sell ink or paper would have the
same reason TO order Post 10 help ruin
these publishers. So the peddler in the
street might stone you If you refused
10 buy his apples; the cabman TO run
over you if YOU refused to ride with
L: 70 o.
turer to q .scharge 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.
It man has labor TO sell let him
sell 1t at the best price he can get Ju.
as ne would sell wheat. but he has no
right to even intimate that he will
ohstruct the business, or attempt its
ruin because the owner Will not pur-
chase of him.
The unions have become so tyran-
nous and arrogant With their despot-
ism that comm OH citizen who has
some time to spare and innoceHtly
tn nks he has a right to put little
paint on his own house finds he must
have that paint taken off and out on
again by the union" or all sorts of
d,re things happen to him. his ON
ployer IS ordered to discharge him,
his grocer is boycotted if he furnishes
him supplies his family followed and
nsulted ana his LIE made more miser-
able than that of Il black slave be-
fore the war. If he drives a nail to
repair the house or BAN the carpen-
ter's union hounds him. He takes a
pipe wrench to stop 4 leaking pipe ana
prevent damage to his property and
the plumbers union does things 10
linn He cannot put a little mortar TO
q loose brick on his chimney or the
bricklayers. plasterers or hod carriers
union" is up in arms and if he care
Icssly eats a loaf OF bread that has no
union label on it the bakers union
proceeds to make life miserable for
hIn.
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
comic opera, if it did not rob people OF
their freedom; that kind of work VIII
not be permitted long in America
Some smooth managers have built up
the labor trust in the last few years.
20 bring themselves money and power
and by managing Workmen, have sue
ceeded 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 bovcotting, 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
remove certain citizens from Office be-
cause the Unions weren't pleased
That means they propose to make
the law of the unions, replace the Jaw
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 dispIaCe it. But the unions try IL
every now and then, led by desperate
men rs shown iii their defiance of law
and support of law breakers.
The union" record of assault Grip
ping of men and even women and
children, destruction of property and
n,urdcr Of American cit zens during
the past two years is perhaps ten times
the volume OF crime and abuse per-
petrated BY slave owners during any
two years previous to the civil war.
We are in a horrible per cd of
llthargy. which permits us TO stand by