The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-02-10
Deputy SheTIn YAM SInmbrOuck wns
nsked By the police depnrtment go
THE STORY OF THE PEANUT
SHELLS.

AS everyone knows. C. w Post or
Battle Creek, Michigan, is not only a
maker Of breakfast foods. but he is a
strong indiyidualist who believes that
the trades-unions are a menace 10 the
liberty of the country.
Believing this, and being a natural
born" scrapper for the right. as he
sees 4, Post. for several years past.
has been engaged in a ceaseless war
fare against the Labor Trust" as he
likes 10 call IT,
Not being able 10 secure free and
untrammeled expression OF his opir-
ions on this subject through the regu.
lar reading pages OF the newspapers
he has bought advertising space for
this purpose. just as hs is accustomed
10 for the telling of his Postum
STORY" and he has thus spent hun
dreds Of thousands OF dollars in de
bouncing trades-unionism.
As a result of Posts activities the
people now know d 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.
Naturally Post is hated by the trades
hnionists, and intensely.
He employs no union labor, so they
can not call out his men. and he de-
hes their efforts at boyCotting his
products The latest means OF get
ting" Post is the widespread publica.
tiOn Of the story that a car which
was recently wrecked in Sn9missiOn
was found TO be loaded MI empty
peanut shells. which were bo'0E ship.
ped from the south TO Posts estab-
lishment at Battle Creek
This canard probably originated
with President John Fitzgerald of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor. who. IL
is said. stated 1t publicly. as truth
Post comes back and gives Fitz-
gerald the lie direct. lie denounces
Fitzgeralds statement "a a deliberate
falsehood. an undetermined and cow.
ardly attempt 10 iniure his business.
having not the slightest basis in fact
AS such an effort il must be regarded.
II is significant that this statement
about the peanut shells" is being
given wide newspaper publicity. In
the patent inside OF an eastern
country paper / And il, and the infer.
ence naturally is that labor-unionites
are insidiouslv spreading this lie.
An institution Tor a man which
will resort 10 moral intimidation and
TO physical force, that will destroy
machinery and burn buildings. that
will MAIN and Kin II necessary TO ef-
fec: its ends, naturally would not
hesitate 10 spread falSehoOd for the
same purposes.
We admire Post While We have no
enmity toward labo- unions. so long
rs they are conducted in an honest.
\ %live-and-let-live' Kind of way. we
have had enough OF the tarred end OF
the stick 20 svmDathize thoroughly
with what he is trying TO do. He de-
serves support \ man like Post can
not be killed. even with lies They are
boomerang, every time. Again we
know, for hasn't this weapon. every
weapon that could ne thought Of. been
used (and not simply by labor unionsD
TO put ia 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.