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Show OFFERS $5,000.00 Challenges Chicago Federation of Labor. When the average labor leader U criticized for tho unfair, tyrannical, or criminal acts of his union he does not usually hesitate to denyi or wilfully wil-fully prevaricate. One of his favorite methods Is to twist and distort his public utter- nnces to convey a wrong Improsslon People who know the tribe laugh and know the opposite to be true Somo who huve not watched this tendenoy, give credence. These men who have secured control con-trol of the unions fear and hate any writer or speaker who soes fit to tell the truth about the way worklngmen and tho public are treated by paid labor la-bor union managers. One Fitzpatrlck. president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is said to have stated at a Sunday Sun-day meeting the following: "During1 "Dur-ing1 a recent freight wreck on a Baltimore Bal-timore & Ohio railroad near Pittsburg, Pitts-burg, three carloads of empty peanut shells were found consigned to tho Postum Cereal Co.. at Battle Creek." He deliberately lied and knew ot the time he made the statement that ho lied He cannot make the public be Hove that such libels will adequately answer to the people who have been inconvenienced and the worklngmen who- havo been abused, mistreated, tyrannized over, and forced to pay fees to the labor union leaders to carry car-ry out the Infamous acts conducted by the Labor Trust. There Is a time coming when the worklngman will secure his rightful position and fair treatment with suitable suit-able wages without being- compelled to be under the iron heel of a few la bor skates who have obtained control con-trol in some localities over the worklngmen, work-lngmen, and can tell them when to quit work or bo subject to the slugging slug-ging of their Infamous "entertainment "entertain-ment committee." Labor Is too sacred a part of the great world's work to be dominated by the vicious hatc-produclng. Impudent, Impu-dent, and criminal men too often found In the ranks of these so-called officers and managers. The works of the great food factories factor-ies In this country are open to visitors visi-tors at all hours of the working1 day, and are visited by hundreds of thousands thous-ands of people who Inspect every kind of material used and all of the processes. pro-cesses. Tho cleanliness of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., plant is proverbial the world over. We have deposited in the Commercial Commer-cial National Bank of Chicago, $3,-000 $3,-000 00 to be covered by a- like amount by tho Chicago Federation of Labor. If the Federation of Labor can show that there were ever any peanut shells or trash of any kind ahlpped to and uned by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., in their foods at any tlmo In the history his-tory of its business, the Chicago Federation Fed-eration of Labor will take the $10,-000 $10,-000 00. otherwise It will come to ue. The Chicago Federation of Labor will not cover this amount. They know, and the president knows, that when he made the statement, he constructed construct-ed it out of whole cloth and voiced a wilful falsehood. POSTUM CEREAL CO.. LTD. U&C2) . . |