Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-17

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/ contributors and slaves or are free and
| independent Americans.
1 have tried to tell you something about
those who are oppressed. vilitied. hated.
| and when opportunity offers are attacked
because they prefer to retain their own
independent American manhood. These
men are In the vast majority and include
the most skillful artisans in the known
world. They have wives and babes de-
pendent on them.
These men are frequently oppressed and
known They are worthy of delense-
That's the reason for the expenditure of
message to the American people Renen-
Der. I didn't say my ,,exouse 60. for send
| c.. w. POST, ....'
! u. l.ea Battle Greek, Mich.
N B. t. E .t
Some "parlor socialist" who knows
Don't you believe in the right of certain
err. when real workmen manage wisely
and peacefully, but would challenge the
right of even church organization when
its affairs had been seized by motley
crew of heartless, vicious men who stop
/ ped industries, melted nobs to attack
| citizens and destroy property in order TO
!; establish their control Of communities
! and affairs, and subject everyone to their
orders and exact the fees, When you
see work of this kind being done call on
or write the prosecuting officers OF your
! district and demand procedure under
! the Sherman antitrust law. and prosecu-
! ton for conspiracy and restraint or trade.
We have the law but the politicians and
/ many Of our officers even while drawing
| nav from the people are afraid TO en-
, force II in protection of our citizens and
now the big Labor Trust is moving heav-
/ en- and earth to repeal the law so their
nefarious work may be more safely car
! ried on.
! BUT YOU. why don't you strike out
| and demand defense for your feliowsT
Put your prosecuting officers to the
test and insist that they do their sworn
duty and protest TO your congressman
| and legislators against the repeal OF the
| Sherman Antitrust law. Its repeal Is
being pushed by the Labor Trust and
some big capital trusts in order to give
| each more power to Cypress. Do your
duty and protest In this great American
Republic everyone must be jealous OF the
right of individual liberty and always ana
ever resent the attempts made to gain
power for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
| Only the poor fool allows his liberty
| to be wrested from him.
/ Someone asks ''how about your own
workmen?'
| I didn't intend to speak of my own af-
| fairs, but so long as the question is al
| most sure to be asked I don't mind tell
| ing you.
The Postum workers are about a thou
sand strong. men and women, and don't
belong to labor unions The Labor Trust
has, time without numbers. sent organ
| izers'' with money to give smokers"
etc, and had their orators declaim the
| brotherhood of man" business, and cry
| salty tears describing the fearful condi-
tions of the slaves of capital' and all
| that. But the. confidence game" never
worked, for the decent and high grade
| Postum workers receive 10 per cent over
| the regular wage scale. They are the
| highest paid, richest and best grade of
working people in the state of Michigan
and I believe In the United States. They
/ mostly own their own homes, and
| good ones. Their wages come 50 weeks in
! a year and are never stopped on the order
Of some agent of the Labor Trust. They
have savings accounts in the banks,
| houses Of their own and steady work at
/ high wages.
1 Iney Uhe L0SlT QdlAy OCCupdllOD IN LuC
| works (conle and ask them) and are not
: slaves, and yet the Labor Trust leaders
have done their best to ruin the sale of
their products and force them into idle
ness and poverty.
| It would cost the worKfngmen of Battle
( Creek (our people and about 5000 others)
from 100000 to 100000 month in fees
| to send out to the leaders Of the Labor
| Trust, IL they would allow themselves to
. become ORGANIZED and join the Trust.
| Not for them, they keep the money,
] school the children apd live free"
| That's some comfort for white people
Once in a while one of, the little books
1.-THE Road to MELVILLE" we put in the
pkgs. OF Postum. Grape-Nuts and Post
! Toasties. lie sent back to us with a sticker
| pasted across 1t saying, Returned be-
| cause 1t don't bear the union label"
| Then we join hands and sing a hymn
| of praise for the discovering by some one
that our souls are not scared with the
| guilt of being conspirators to help bind
| the chains of slavery upon fellow Ame-i-
| cans by placing added power in the hands
| of the largest most oppressive and harm
full trust the world has ever seen.
/ When you seek to buy something look
| for the ''union LABEL and speak your SEN
| timents. That's an opportunity to reach
| out a helping hand to the countless men
/ and women in all kinds OF industry who
] brave bricks. stones and bullets, to main
! tain their American manhood and free
! dom by making the finest goods in, Amer
/ lea and which do not bear the seal of
Industrial slavery, the Union LABEL