The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-03-18
THE STORY or THE PEANUT
SHELLS.

AS everyone knows. G. w. Post a 4
Battle Greek, Michigan, is not only
maker OF breakfast foods. but he ID q
strong individual who believes that the
trades-unions are o menace to the lib
erty Of the country.
Believing this. and being q natural
born scrapper for the right. as he
sees 1t, Post, for several years past,
has been engaged in ceaseless war;
fare against "The Labor Trust" as he
likes to call 1t.
Not being able to secure free and
untrammeled expression Of his opin-
Ions 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 d
thousands Of dollars in denouncing
trades-unionism.
As result Of Posts activities the
people now know whole lot about
these organizations: how they are
honeycombed with graft. how they OBJ
struct 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.
He employs no union labor. 80 they
can not call out his men, and he defles
their efforts at boycotting his products.
The latest means of getting Post Is
the widespread publication Of the story
that 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
cago Federation Of Labor, who, 1t Is
said. stated it publicly. as truth.
|. Post comes back and gives Fftz-
gerald the lie direct. He dencunces
Fitzgerald's statement as q deliberate
falsehood, an undetermined and coward
lily attempt to injure his business, hay-
| ing not the slightest basis in fact. As
such an effort it must be regarded. It
Is significant that this statement about
"the peanut shells" is being given wide
newspaper publicity. In the patent
inside" of an eastern country paper I
find it, and the inference naturally ID
that labor-unionites are insidiously
| spreading this lie.
| An institution Cor man) 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 It's
| ends, naturally wouD not hesitate to
spread falsehood for the same pur-
poses.
We admire Post. While We have no
enmity toward labor unions. SO long 40
| they are conducted in an honest, live
and et-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.
| A man like Post can not be killed. even
with lies. They are boomerang, every
time. Again, we Eno1o. for hasn't this
weapon, every weapon that could be
thought of, betn used tand not simply
by labor unions) to put US out Of busi-
ness, too?
/ am going to drink tho cups q
Postum every morning from this tima
on, and put myself on 9 diet Of 0rape.
Nuts. Bully for Post! EDITORIAL -
The American Journal Df Oltstods -
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