The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-12
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THE STORY or THE PEANUT
SHELLS

AS everyone knows, c. W. Post of Bat
tie Creek, Mich, is not only maker
of breakfast foods, but he is strong
individualist who believes that the
trades unions are menace to the lib
ertY of the country
Believing this. and being a natural
born" scrapper for the right. as he sees
It, Post for several years past, has been
engaged in a ceaseless warfare against
the Labor Trust" as he likes to call it.
Not being able to secure free and I'M
trammeled expression of his opinions
on this subject through the regular
reading pages of the newspapers he
has bought advertising space for this
purpose, Just as he Is accustomed to
for the telling of his Postum story
and he has thus spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars in denouncing
trades unionism.
AS result of Posts activities the
people now know a whole lot about
these organizationsi how they are
honeycombed with graft. how they OBJ
struct the development of legitimate
business, curtail labors output, hold
up manufacturers. graft upon their
own membership. and rob the public
Naturally Post is hated by the trades
unionists, and intensely.
He employs no union labor. they
cannot call out his men, and he defes
their efforts at boycotting his prod
ucts. The latest means of getting" Post
is the widespread publication of the
story that a 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 Bat
tie Creek.
This canard probably originated with
President John Fitzgerald of the Chics-
go Federation of Labor, who, it Is said,
stated it publicly. as truth.
Post comes back and gives Fitzgerald
the lie direct. He denounces Fitzger-
AIDS statement as a deliberate false
hood, an undetermined and cowardly at
tempt to injure his business, having not
the slightest basis in fact. As such an
effort il must be regarded. 1t is sig
nificant that this statement about the
peanut shells is being given wide
newspaper publicity. In the patent
inside" of an eastern country paper
find it, and the inference naturally 10
that abor-unionists are insfdiously
spreading this lie.
An institution Cor mani which will
resort to moral intimidation and to
physical force, that will destroy ma
chinery and burn buildings, that will
MAIN and kill If necessary to effect its
ends, naturally would not hesitate to
spread falsehood for the same pur-
poses.
We admire Post. While we have no
enmity toward labor unions, so long az
they are conducted in an honest. live
and-let- live kind of a way, we have
had enough of the tarred end of the
stick to sympathize thoroughly with
what he Is trying to do. He deserves
support. man like Post cannot be
killed, even with lies. They are a boom
erang, every time. Again we know, for
hasn't this weapon, every weapon that
could be thought of, heen used land
not simply by labor unions) to put US
out of business too?
am going to drink two cups OF
Postum every morning from this time
on. and put myself on a diet of Grape
Nuts. Bully for Post!--Editorial In The
American Journal of Clinical Medicine.