The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15

colt any product whether 1t bears a union label" or not. One has a con- stitutional right to examine the article and see whether its makers are Labor Trust contributors and slaves or are free and independent Americans.
 l have tried to tell you something about those who are oppressed, vilified, 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 have no way to make their wrongs known. They are worthy of defense. That's the reason for the expenditure of a few thousands of dollars to send this message to the American people. Remem- Der, didn't say my "excuse" for send ing it. The cause needs no excuse :"
 c. w. POST,
 Battle Creek, Mich. N B.
 Some "parlor socialist who knows noth- ing of the Russian Czarism of the great Labor Trust will ask right here: Don't you believe in the right or certain work men to organize" Oh yes, brother, when real workmen manage wisely and peacefully, but I would challenge tho right of even a church organization when its affairs had been seized by motley crew of heartless, vicious men who stopped industries. melted mobs 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 tho Sherman antitrust law, and prosecution for conspiracy and restraint of trade. We have the law but the politicians and many of our officers even while drawing pay from the people are afraid to enforce 1t in protection of our citizens and now the big Labor Trust is moving heaven and earth to repeal the law so their ne- farious work may be more safely car ried 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 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 oppress. Do your duty and protest. In this great Amer ican Republic everyone must be jealous of the right of individual liberty and always and ever resent the attempts made to gain power for personal ag- grandizement.
 Only the poor fool allows his liberty to be wrested from him.
 Someone asks .'how apout your own workmen?
 affairs but so long as the question IS almost sure to be asked I don't mind telling you.
 The Pustum workers are about thou sand strong, men and women, and don't belong to labor unions. The Labor Trust has, time without numbers, sent "or- ganizers" 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 Michiga and believe in the United States. They mostly own their own homes, and good ones Their wages come 52 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 idle ness and poverty.
 It would coat the workingmen of Battle Creek (our people and about 5000 others) from S1Oo0.00 to $20O0.O0 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. school the children and live free. That's some comfort for white people Once in a while one of the little books pkgs. of Postum, Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties, is sent back to us with a sticker pasted across it 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 l the chains of slavery upon fellow Amer | jeans by placing added power in the | hands of the largest, most oppressive and l harmful trust the world has ever seen. ] When you seek to buy something look for the "union label" and speak your | sentiment. That's an opportunity to reach I out a helping hand to the countless men l and women in all kinds of industry who | brave bricks, stones and bullets, to main- tain their American manhood and free- l dom by making the finest goods in Amer. l lea and which do not bear the seal of ins | dustrtal slavery. the Union Label"