The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-02-24
THE STORY OF THE PEANUT
SHELLS.

AS everyone knows, G. w. Post of
Rattle Creek, Michigan, is not only a
maker of breakfast foods, but he is a
strung individual who believes that the
trndes-unions are menace to the lib
erfy OF the country.
Believing this, and being natural
born" scrapper for the right, as he
sees d, Post. for several years past,
has been engaged in ceaseless war.
. fare against THE Labor Trust" as he
MEes To call 1t.
Mot being able to secure free and
unErammeled expression of his opin-
lons ON this subject through the regular
reading pages of the newspapers he
Inns bought advertising space for this
purpose, just as he is accustomed to
for the telling of his Postum STORY"
7xIh& he has thus spent hundreds Cd
thousands of dollars in denouncing
trades-unionism.
As q result of Posts activities the
people now know a whole lot about
these organizations; how they are
hSoBeycombed with graft, how they OBJ
issrSEas1 the development of legitimate
business, curtail labor's output, hold
up manufacturers, graft upon their own
membership and rob the public. Natu-
rally Post is hated by the trades
unionists, and intensely.
ale employs no union labor, so they
can not call out his men, and he defies
their efforts at boycotting his products
The latest means of getting" Post is
EtIe widespread publication of the story
that u car which was recently wrecked
In transmission was found to be loaded
with empty peanut shells. which were
being shipped from the south to Posts
establishment at Battle Creek
This canard probably originated with
President John Fitzgerald of the Chi
caSo Federation of Labor, who, it is
said stated 1t publicly, as truth.
Post comes back and gives Fitz-
gerald the lie direct. He denounces
FIGzgerald's statement as deliberate
ialsehood, an undetermined and coward
~ a1tempt to injure his business, hav-
ING not the slightest basis in fact. AS
such an effort it must be regarded 1t
S significant that this statement about
the peanut shells" is being given wide
M NSRntCt puDhSlIys III inc patent !
tn8ide' of an eastern country paper / !
find it, and the inference naturally is |
ghzt labor-unionites are insidiously |
spreading this lie.
An institution Tor a mani which !
'elL resort to moral intimidation and |
30 E18Elt.si force, that will destroy ma
chinery and burn buildings, that will /
main and kill if necessary to effect it's
ends. naturally would not hesitate to
spread falsehood for the same pur-
poses.
We admire Post. While we have no
znmiry howard labor unions. so long as
they are conducted in an honest, live.
kind of way, we have had
szSough of the tarred end of the stick
10 sympathize thoroughly with what he
"a trying to do, He deserves support.
4 Gpan like Post can not be killed, even
SfzG1 lies. They are boomerang, every
2aEae. Again, we bnoW. for hasn't this
sseapon, every weapon that could be
Thought Of, been used land not simply
By labor unions) to put us out of bust.
Eess. too?
4 am going to drink too cups of
Postum every morning from this time
On, and put myself on a diet of Grape
Nuts Bully for Editorial in
The Ascrican Journal of Cla;gql Ned
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