The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-14


 Tree and independent Americans.
 I have tried to tell you something about those who are oppressedh yilli- ned, hated, and when opportunity of- ters are attacked because they prefer 70 retain their own independent Amer ican manhood. These men are in the vast majority and include the most skiiifuI artisans in the known world Ihey have wives and babes dependent on them
 1hese men are frequently oppressed and nave no way to make their wrongs nnoWh' ,n, They are worthy of defense. Tnat's the reason for the expenditura ot tew thousands of dollars to send tnis message to the American people. snemenoer I didn't say my "excuse'' aor sending 1t. The cause needs no excuse" " po1.
 Battle Creek. Mich. N. b.-Some ''parlor socialist" who knows nothing of the Russian Czarisn VI the great Labor Trust will ask risnt here: Don't you believe in inc risht of certain workmen to organ Ize. on yes, brother, when real Workmen manage wisely and peaceful- ". put l would challenge the right of even a church organiza ton when ita anairs had been seized bv a motisv crew Of heartless. vicious men who stopped industries. melted mobs to at- tAcA eltizens and destroy property in order to establish their control of communities and affairs, and subject everyone to their orders and exact tbe tees When you see work of this kind oeins oone call on or write the prose- eutIns omcers Of your district and de- hIano procedure under the Sherman antitrust law. and prosecution for conspiracy and restraint of trade Wa nave The law but the politicfana ana many or our officers even while draw Ing pay from the people are afraid to enforce It in protection of our citizens ana now the big Labor Trust ta nov ing Heaven and earth to repeal the law so tneir neiarious work may be more safely carried on.
 But You. Why don't you strike out and demand defense for your feIlows7
 fut your prosecuting officers to the test and insist that they do their sworn duty, and protest to your Con gresmen and legislators against Ina repeal of the sherman anti-trust law ats repeal Is being pushed by the Ia- DOT Trust and some big capital trusts m oroer 10 give each more power to oppress. Do your duty and protest. In this great American Republic eyervona must be Jealous of the right of indi- Vidual liberty and always and ever resent the attempts made to gain pow- CT Tor personal aggrandizement.
 only the poor fool allows his liberty to be wrested from him,
 someone asks, How about your owp workmenr 0"D
 I didn't intend to speak of my oun affairs. but so long as the oues;,ou ,s almost sure to be asked, I don't mind telling you.
 The Postum workers are about thousand strong. men and women. anu dont belong to labor unions. The Ia Dor Trust has, time without numbers sent organizers" with money to give smokers" etc. and had their "ora- tors declalm the "brotherhood of man" business, and cry salty tears de- scribing the fearful conditions of inc slaves of capital" and all that. But the "conhdence game never worked. Tor the decent and high grade Postum workers receive 10 per cent. oyer the regular wage scale. They are inc highest paid. richest and best grade of working people in the State of MichI- gan, and l believe in the United States They mostly own their own homes, and good ones. Their wages come fftv- two weeks in a year and are never stopped on the order of some paId agent of the Labor Trust They have savings accounts in the banks. houses of their own and steady work at high wages.
 They like their daily occupation in the works (come 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 idleness and poverty.
 It would cost the workingmen of Battle Creek (our people and about 5000 others) from $1,oo0 to $2.0Oo 8 month in fees to send out to the lead CTS of the Labor Trust, If they would allow themselves to become "orGanize1', and join the Trust.
 Not for them, they keep the money. school the children and live free '' That's some comfort for white people
 Once in a while one of the little books. The Road to Melville" we uut in the pkgs of Postum. Grape Nuts and Post Toastles, Is sent back to us with a sticker pasted across it saving. "Returned because 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 Americans by placing added power in the hands of the largest. most oppress- i've and harmful trust the world has ever seen.
 Whom you seek to buy something lool, for the "union label" and speak your sentiments Thats an opportun- ity to reach out a helping hand to the countless men and women in all kinds of industry who brave bricks. stones and bullets to maintain their Amert- can manhood by making the finest goods In America and which do noe hear the seal of industrial slavery, the "UnlOa Label"