Arizona republican., 1909-09-15

l have tried to tell you something about those who are oppressed, viii lied. hated and when opportunity of- fers are attacked because they prefer to retain their own independent Amer ican manhood. These men are in the vast majority and include the most skillful artisans in the known world. They have wives and babes dependent on them.
 These men are frequently oppressed and have no way to make their wrongs known They are worthy of defense. That's the reason for the expenditure of a few thousand dol lars to send this message to the American people. Remember, I didn't say my excuse" for sending it. The cause needs no excuse"
 C. W. POST.
 Battle Creek. Mich N. B.
 Some "parlor socialist" who knows nothing of Russian Czarism of the great Labor Trust will ask right here: Don't you believe in the right of certain workmen to organize" oh yes, brother. when real wOrkmen man. age wisely and peacefully. but I would challenge the right of even a church organization when it's affairs had been seized by a motley crew of heartIess, vicious men who stopped industries, melted mobs to attack citizens and destroy property in order 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 prosecution for conspiracy and res- traint of trade. We have the law but the politicians and many of our offi- eers even while drawing pay from the people are afraid to enforce it in pro- lection of our citizens and now the big Labor Trust is moving heaven and earth to repeal the law so their pefarious work may be more safely carried on.
 But You. Why don't you strike out and demand defense for your fellows?
 Put your prosecuting officers to the test and insist that they do their sworn duty, and protest to your con- gressmeR 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 oppress. Do your duty and protest In this great American Re- public everyone must be jealous of the right of individual liberty and always and ever resent the attempts made to gain power for personal aggrandize- ment.
 Only the poor fool allows his liberty to be wrested from him.
 Someone asks how about your own workmen?"
 l didn't intend 10 speak of my own affairs. but so long as the question is almost sure to be asked I don't mind telling you
 The Postum workers are about d thousand strong. men and women, and don't belong to labor unions The Labor Trust has, time without num- bers, sent organizers with money to give smokers" etc, and mad their orators" declaim the brotherhood of man business, and cry salty tears describing the fearful conditions 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 5e 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 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 s10O0.00 to s2O000O a month in fees to send out to the leaders of the Labor Trust, if they would allow themselves to become organized" 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 put in the pkgs. of Postum. Grape Nuts and Post Toasties. is sent back to us with a sticker pasted across it saying Re turned because it 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 con- spirators to help bind the chains of slavery upon fellow Americans by placing added power in the hands of the largest most oppressive and harmful trust the world has ever seen.
 When you seek to buy something look for the union label' and speak your sentiments. That's 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 American manhood and freedom by making the finest goods in America and which do not bear the seal of industrial slavery, the "Union Label"