Douglas Island news., 1909-09-22

act in freedom is the chiefest jewel of my soul, and that no labor union, es. pecially one with which I have never had dealings, can reach out across the miles and punch and poke me into line with it's Corkonian pike-pole, without at least few pen-and-ink protests.
 "I wear O'Sullivan rubber heels and I shall continue to wear them. There are other rubber heels, but for the present 1 wear O'Sullivau's. l also recommend them to my friends. l like ' to feel that even though l may not ad- mire Mir. O'Sullivan, am big enough not to wish him ill; rather would 1 benefit him, even though he is certainly a mental resident of The Patch in his desire to manage me. He does not know yet that he is in America, so when he is presented with water melon he eats the rind and throws the
 guts' away.
 "Now, suppose should write O'Sul-
 ivan that if he did not get out of the union, I'd quit wearing his heels, more over, I'd tell all of my friends that if they bought O'SuIlivan heels I'd cut them cold, and patronize other people; moreover, I'd buy nothing of anybody who bought of or sold to men who had friends who wore O'Sullivan heels! Would not he lift keener's vail, and the fog horn howl of fehr bolg?
 "To belong to union is all right, but to say that the man who does not be- long to union shall not be allowed to labor, is all wrong. Then to go farther and say that the man who employs man does not belong to union shall be starved out of business is absurd and worse.
 "The closed shop stands for tyranny and oppression. It blocks human eVo- lrtion; destroys initiative and fosters hate. UnioniSm stands for disunion. It perpetuates distrust, and makes division permanent 1t places an in. junction on progress, and chains the laborer to his bench. It organizes en- mity, and makes a system of suspicion. "Unionism does not strive to get the wora done-its intent is to make it last. And it never means better work, because better work demands greater devotion, more patience, finer loy- alty. The union keeps in your shop workmen you otherwise would not have, unless they mended their ways and manners. It makes the slipshod perpetual, and shiftless everlasting, by placing premium on distrust and sep arating the employer from the em- ployee They never get acquainted. In the February Fra was an article on union labor. The article kicked up deal of cosmic dust Much of the criticism was commendatory but some of it wasn't. Several labor leaders wrote expressing their private views of The Fra and the Philistine, ex plaining that never again etcetera. Still another intimated that if he ever met me personally, the interview would not be antiseptic, but that when he got through with me my face would look like a Sunday supplement. Then, also, came letter from Charles w. Post. The labor proposition is not pleasantly to Colonel Postum. He was placed on the unfair list at time when the mat ter looked like red ruin.
 "The question was not one of wages nor time. It was that Post employed certain people the unions did not like. There was strike. Word was passed along the line that any publication ad- vertising Grape Nuts or Postum would also be placed on the unfair list This meant that any printing shop which is- sued a publication that advertised Grape-Nuts might be dedicated to the bats, spiders and cockroaches.
 "The intent was to wipe Post off the slate. And there were people who of fered to bet that Post would soon live only in myth and legend. Any paper mill supplying the paper for publica- tion advertising Grape-Nuts would be placed under the ban.
 "The Walters Union sent out word that any waiter serving Grape Nuts was ausgespielt, and on the slide, un- less he served the patron calling for Grape-Nuts with nice portion of un- dertone slithy tove.
 "Various publishers got goose-fesh,