The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-01-20

THE only place liz the United States
TIA, guarantees freedom from strikes.
Ia,souta and labor warfare is Battle
Crcr,t. Mich.
Tho storyP The work people. mer-
rhsnts. lawyers, doctors and other citi-
ven. became aroused and indignant ut
the. -,f',rts of the labor unions through
,nt ti,c country to destroy the business
OF one of our largest industries-the
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. and al the open
threats in the official union papers. that
the cot,re power Of the National ana
states Fedcrations of Labor was being
drought to bear to punish" the indus
rtric. Of Battle Creek. and pr ticdliily
the Postum Co.
Tit, sprung from the refusal "f q. w.
Post 70 obey the orders Of IL unions
to take the Postum odvertisii': away
from various papers thar refused % pur-
chase labor Of the Labor sr',st--the unions.
Mr. Post was ordered 10 join the
a,uions. III their conspiracy To ruin and
.'nut out of business" these publishers
VITO. had worked faithfully for him for
ye.Aes and helped build up his business.
ftsrsy tad done no wrong. but had found
Ii announcement and against their best
jua.,mcat to buy labor OF Che labor uus:.
At scent, a. tiilc Of the unions to conspirc
10 r,,n; anyone who does not purchase
from them upon their own terms
hr h.S maker or, pape, maker who
fa!i,.d 70 .ssll ink or paper would have the
same reason to order POST to help ruin
,i,c.c publishers. so the peddicr in the
tF ,s,r,, Ss.1f IN
buy his apples; the cabman to run over
yt.a i. you refused to ride With him. the
e1,ocer order the manufacturer to dis
cssargc certain people because they did
moi patronize him. and so on to the RI
a'cuious and villianous limit of all this
boycott nonsense in trying to force peo-
tAr TO buy what they do not want.
Il man has labor to sell let him sell
il ~ the best price he car get just as he
would sell wheat, but he has no right to
even intimate that he will obstruct the
a.;si6ess or attempt its ruin because the
owner will not purchase of him.
Tuc unions have become so tyrannous
.,nd arrogant with their despotism that
A cor,rnon citizen who has some time to
spare and innocently thinks he has a
righ, 90 put a little paint on his own
house finds he must have tina: paint taken
Off and put again by 1.-THE union" Or
sn sorts of dire things happen to him.
has employer is ordered TO discharge
min. his grocer is boycotted if he fur
nN..,ca hum supplies. his family followed
and rnsulted and his life made more mis-
uabie than that of a black slave before
ne war If he drives nail to repair
the house or barn the carpenters union
hounds him. He takes pipe wrench TO
stop \ leaking pipe and prevent damage
10 his property and the plumbers union
docs, things to him. He cannot put "A
Attic nortar to q loose brick on his CHM
.acs OF the briclslayers. plasterers or hod
carrer.. union is up in arms and II he
ca1cIessly eats n loaf of bread that has
3 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 q hand to better him.
self or do the needful things. without
nr.t obtaining permission from some
naughty ignorant and abusive tyrant OF
some labor union.
e. would all seem rather like comic
opera. it it did not rob people of their
fTccIOtp, that KIND OF Work VIII hot oe
permitted long in America.
.;ome smooth managers have built up
Tho. labor trust in the last few years. tc
bring themselves money and power and
ny managing worltmen. have succeeded
in iu.,ts,ng it possible for them to lay
down the law in some cities and force
wor,smen and citizens to obey" implicit
4y stripping them right and left of then
i,hrrttra.
'Chey have used boycotting, pcketins
a,,y,ults. dynamiting OF property ant
murder TO enforce their orders and rule
the people. rhcy have gone far enough
4, order the President to remove certain
rit.aeus from office because the Unions
weren't pleased
THAT means they propose to make thu
say Of the unions. replace the i.;aw of thi
government and the union leaders domi
s.atc even the chief Executive.
+. RIBS Is \ government OF and for thu
= people and no Organization OF trust shall
aifsplacc It. But the unions try it ever.
now and then. led BY desperate men a