Show THE STORY OF THE PEANUT SHELLS As everyone knows knowe 0 W post of battle creek ri to Is not only a maker ct cf breakfast foods but he is a strong individual who believes that the trades unions aro are a menace to the lib city of the country believing this and being a natural born scrapper tor for the right as he sees jt it post for several yeara yaro past has been engaged in a cc ceaseless warfare against the labor trust as he likes to call it not being able to secure free and untrammeled expression of his opinions on this subject through the regular reading pages of the newspapers he has bus bought advertising space for this purpose just as he is accustomed t to 0 for the telling of his 11 story and he has thus spent hundreds ot of thousands of dollars in denouncing trades unionism As a result of posts activities the people now know a whole lot about these organizations how they tire aro honeycombed with graft how they ob 00 instruct the development of legitimate business curtail labors output hold boid up manufacturers graft upon their own membership and rob the public naturally post Is hated by the trades unionists and intensely he employs noun no union lon labor so they can not call out his men and he bo defies deales their off efforts orts at boycotting his products the latest means of getting post is the widespread public publication aon 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 battle creek this canard probably originated with president john fitzgerald of the achl cago federation of labor who it is said stated it publicly as truth post comes back and gives fitzgerald the lie direct ile he denounces fitzgeralds statement as a deliberate falsehood an underhanded and cowardly attempt to injure his bis business having 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 1 find it and the inference naturally is that labor are insidiously spreading this lie ho an institution or a man which will resort to moral intimidation and to physical force that will destroy machinery and burn buildings that will malm maim and kill if necessary to effect its ends naturally would not hesitate to spread falsehood for the same purposes we admire post while wo we have no nalty toward labor unions so long as aa they are conducted in an honest live ind let live kind of a way we have had bad enough of the tarred end of the stick 1 0 to o sympathize thoroughly with what ho he Is trying to do lie he deserves support A man liko like post can not be killed even with lies they are a boomerang every time again we know for this weapon every weapon that could be thought of been used and not simply by tabor labor unions to put us out of business too I 1 am going to drink civo cups of every morning from this time on and put myself on a diet of bully for editorial in the Ainer american can journal vf of clinical medicine acine C |