| Show THE STORY OF THE PEANUT SHELLS As everyone knows C W post of erf cattle battle creek michigan is not only a maker ot of foods but ho he to la a strong individual who believes bel levea that the trades unions are a menace to the liberty of the country believing this and being a natural lorn scrapper tor for the right as ai he f sees it post for several years past f has been engaged in a ceaseless war fare faie against the labor trust as aa he likes to call it f not being able to secure tree free aw a untrammeled expression of hla his ln tons lona on this subject through the regular re ular reading pages of the newspapers 8 ho he hits him bought advertising space fr this purpose just as he to Is acou to to for the telling of hla his kostu 11 atory r and he bo has thus spent hundreds it r a or of thousands of 0 dollars in denouncing trades unionism As a result c posts activities tho the people now know a whole lot about these organizations bow they are honeycombed with graft how they ahey obstruct the development of business curtail labors output hold boil up manufacturers graft upon their own post la Is hated by the trades unionists and intensely tie ile employs no union labor so they can not call out his bis men and he defies their effort sat boycotting his bis products the latest means of gottl getting ng post Is the widespread publication of 0 the story that a car which was recently wrecked I 1 in u transmission was found to be loaded with empty peanut shells which were being shipped aiom tho the south to posts establishment at battle creek tula this canard probably originated with president john fitzgerald of the chicago riede federation ration of labor who it la Is said shirod it publicly wi truth post comes back and gives fitzgerald the lie ho direct ite ile denounces fitzgeralds stai statement ement as aa a deliberate falsehood an underhanded and cowardly attempt to injure his business haying not the slightest basis lit in fact As such nn an effort it muse bo be regarded it Is significant that this statement about the peanut shell shells jIls 1 la being given wado publicity in the patent inside of an eastern country paper I 1 find it und and the Infer inference enco naturally Is that labor are insidiously spreading thin lie an institution or a man which will resort to moral intimidation and to physical force that will destroy machinery unit and burn buildings that will malm and kill hill it if necessary to effect its civis naturally would not hesitate to spread falsehood for the same purposes we admire post while we hayo haye no enmity toward labor unions so long as hey aey are conducted in an all honest live iivo ind let iet live kind of tt a way we have had enough of the tarred end of the stick to sympathize thoroughly with what he Is trying to do lie deser deserves vei support 4 man like post can not be killed even with lies they ni ai a boomerang every ahrie again ie kaw tor for this weapon every weapon that could be thought of been used and not simply by labor unions to put us out of business too I 1 am going r ding to drink dijuk twy two cups cupa ot of every from this tonao ahne on and put myself an n a diet of grape nuts bully for arf 0 o f bt c 4 acci inc lean rican journal of df clr al 0 wed co J |
