The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1905, Page 4

TaN rr Hed at Citizens’ Meeting. it Night that Government eked to Interfere Because ‘Broken Contract. hedule Time—Meeting In- aea World Subway Plan, @nd_enthusinatio meeting of and residents of the Best r for section of Brooklyn met last Waverley Bicycle Club, pireet and the levard, to pgalnst trafic ditions in: gn Prooklynites by the B. RT, 141 it questions generally were ‘and condemnation heaped on ® whioh pretends to fur- to the big borough across was held undor the o¢ the Ocean Hill Board of p, Which safeguards the Interests large and growing section Rast New York, An {mpor- was the adoption of a resolution in- Bvening World's subway hich «as routed shows how fs to get real rapid transit. mny were the encomlums heard in We of the plan, and The Evening ft'e slogan “To Brooklyn homos in j minutes,” wag frequently mon- by the wponkers, Pres'dent Ed- Pabst declared that To Brook- jomes in fifteen minutes!" was the ier for all Broculynites who are @ subway ayatem which will p them to reach the!r homes In time, ‘Hovel puggestion was advanced by Rent Pabst, which revemled the of Invoking and receiving of the Federal Government in a now making throughout lyn for decent trafic service. presented the statement that in tts ; ff letter carriers the B. R, | Rot living up to its contract ‘Government, The interesting Wes brought out that between ent at Washington and the existe an agreement by which Bre to be afforded con~ } on the cars of the company in’ the work of actualy deliveries, and that theGov- it and railrond company are tract mutually~one to pay Be in order to do whet is required of them in the performance of thelr regular duties.” It was on the initiative of Acting Sec- retary I. #8. Koney, who ts @ prominent business man in the East New York section, that tho discussion of the roadway subway, as routed by Tho Evering World, was introduced. Ho) spoke of the plan ag most feasible ant desirable, and calculated to afford ro- Nef to the highest degree. ‘Through the medium of the Broadway subway, with {ts otrer romes, ‘To Brooklyn homes in fifteen minutes’ can be made a reality," sald Mr. Ronoy, Must Urge Evening World Plan. + “We must urge tho plan, It will af- ford fagilities to the larger portion of | Brookiyn's increasing population ay fil | very requirement, But I alag stand for | additional subways—one continuing the | Wlathush avenue section now bufiding, carrying tho rote under the astern | Boulevard, Such a route would fur. | nish decent travelling facilities for our) people of the south side of this large and growing section.” On the motion of Mr. Roney @ reao- lution Inéorsing the proposed Broadway subway was unanimously adopted and ain additional resolution calling pon nll those. present ag wel) ag all the mombers of tho Ocean Hill Board of Trade to attend tho meoting of the) Rapid Transit Commission to-morrow, when the matter of the Broadway sub- way will be discussed, was also adopted. Voiced Their Indignation. George BH, Reilly, James T, Hopkins, William. Bierman, William Grim, Will- fam 3, Butler and William A, Leonard yelcod thelr indignation in nnmoasured peng of the operation of the Lrooklyn ‘Transl apalng, that B. (ofl: letter carrtars,’ afford that » carriage ‘and in euch manner Paste | 4 Bi | give @ | hora: wate an iow tor! eater York aecien service for the Bi were vuanlmounty adopted, lt was sug- t dolivel being mai time, Depend on Service. . lather aspect of the case It ‘Unanimous expression that let * oannot possibly depend ‘ears or traing of the B, R, T. ling their duties, In fact, ww wtated by several speakers that iB thelr pernonal knowledge that ry of mall waa being seri: * layed by the Irregular opera- gore of tho B, R. T.,.and that ‘toroed dally to walk and ir entire routes in order to veriea on time, when to have ara would, have prevented y daliveries, fom this wervice, unreliable and ap it {9, the Government Is {the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Ay ¥,20) yearly, ‘The members ) Ocean Hill Loard of Tra Browkiynites generally, would @apect the conditions of that contract With the Brook- monopoly, President out the point that the Goverment, if demanding a itor lement of this and possibly acts, imtght effect some the better in the operation ‘bf the tuilroad oorporation, this Interesting subject, Mient Pubs; sald: ri 1 phage of the abom|- of the BR, T, le the the Federal Government Position to possibly with ‘to the whole question, existing contracts between the MB! and the Fedoral Government Ne fs pald $8.200 a year for letter carriers, ‘Mie con- that’ fetter carriers be @ rides of auch frequent natura W of each man covering his Jetter-carriera, however, milly compelled to walk at times thelr routes, It 1s my opinion ig @ atipalation aa to sched- the vontraes, and if the com- fa in attending this Kervice then {t 19 with the Govern- domend the remedy whieh lies A power to obtain, the Contract Gontemplates, informed {hat letter-carriers A to wot, by reason of the Ea Fay. stipguedt ested that by requiring the company t run ith elevated local trains to the utern Parkway instead of atopning, as now, at the Ralph avenue stailon, and by running the surface cars to: Ala~ faye avenug instead of etopping at i savers, © better, nervice would be attyined, nent parses dum out of it surface cara ot Reld aventie and compelied to walt from five to twelve minutes for a car for Alabama avenus, | -_——— WHAT PATRONS SAY OF SYSTEM. Of the great pearly of cars and overcrowding, Not only the Putnam and Halsey street servies, whieh ta vile, but my experience Is that the game condition exists wll over the city, Your ih a ara 1 should eres, the thanks of ail Hrovklyn people, AD. HL Re, i Q. . Ey C No, 380 Stuyvesant ave. The most of the time I have to walt fifteen or twenty manure, for a Lexing- ton avenue train at night, when they begin to operate thelr through service at 7 o'clock, we ight to get aboard, LipMAND, No. 1044 A nam avenue. It runs too many cars on favored lines, | Beventh avenue, that dreo- tion Ww there is a fimited travel, and too few on such lines as Putnam avenue, whore each oar is jammed to guftocation, Inagine ‘une hour from Bouth Ferry (o stalph avenue, about four alles, . WINTERS, bo ar fy Jetteraon avenue. pervice via the Putnam avenie ry Glsgrage qven for a frontier town cars are few, afr between, and crowded to the very steps, even durin Pete TeD eeu t Se Groskhynies. gy" i bs 9, HAMILTON, No, 901 Btuyvasan’ avenue, The line ta The number of cars run on Putnam avenue line 1 always inadequate (morn- ing and evening! the number of passengers; same cn the Broadway line, hetween Broadway Ferry and Jamaica, ‘We have to pack In, Worse than cattle, in order to get to our destination, ive times as masy cars are rin on the Gates avenue live as on Purnam avenue, You are ‘engaged In a noble mrisstpnany cant: MA DALTON, ns wii vi¥’nfacon eirbet. Seerrinat gireet car to Park Row this py No, #710 vewistored 13) fares, Why Mon't you look up the Nostrand avenue service and try to find out why go many Lorimer street cara are sent to Prospect Park without passengers and Vanderyeey rare eat few and fa botween and swamped with passenges 36 NOPOTNAM AVENUE, They should aconommodate the publi, it, a gervice witch will onable ‘ or thatr vowiaa on (hme, but from the Boat aubpority tay ‘pompelled. to tenare the oans a Lost Avticle It is returned to the owner If his home is known, ST OF THE PEOPLY: HONEST. About three families in every five in New York City read The World morning or evening. you LOSE anything ees Of recovery are rough an Re ¢ ‘or bey Dave suffered long and pa- Jently. “I nave traveled on the B, R. , daifly, tnoluding Sundays, for the ppd tventy years, and know by bitter xperienve, Have ¢ Mtomany Colds in thelr refrigeratons, nh one js com: pelled to take an because the ean't Act in @ surface they should bo compelled to give a transfer from FT to surface to complete the journey if requestod, Btrap passengers should travel Cor less faa WwW, ter being halt frozen walt ing, and when I am fortunate enough That later ye the fies I ‘ha ike a uy au, children” it ma: e worve in "Hades," but 1 doubt it. U8 LBONHARD, lo, 764 Macon strest. et [> Sd walt at Brooklyn forks alde, night their crowded condition and commenced f{ of Labor was being brought to bear) |to “punish” the industries of Battle} Minn Luts Pleanod Herself, in the Matter aud Former Mistress Out Bequent Out of Will, “The will of Bahetta Kaufman, widow of Joseph Kdufman, filed to-day, dis- tributes a lange estate among nephews and nieces, It also etates that Mr, Kaufman, by this will, had bequeathed $5,000 to Annie Marle Lats, who had been tn their employ, to go to her at | his wife's death, but gave authority to the widow to revoke the bequest {f ahe chose, “Exercising that authority, I do now revoke the sald bequest to Annie Marie Luts,” saya Mrs, Kaufman's will, ‘he tawyer'a clerk who filed the will eald Mrs, Kaufman revoked the bequest by her husband to Mise because the latter had displeased {n her ehoice of a husband, ——_— NEW CRUISER FOR JAPAN, TOKIO, Jan, 17 (2.30 P, M)—A first- class armored cruiser is being con- atructed at the naval dock at Kure, ‘SWEPT BY Blaze Started at 3A. M. in Wal- dorf Hotel and Spread to Ger- mania and Colonial Hotels, Destroying All. —- Fire of a mysterious origin swept the beach at Rockaway early to-day. Three large hotels and four handsome cot- tagea which were in the path of the wind were destroyed, All the big hotels at Rockaway, Far Rockaway and Arverne are deserted at this season of the year, ‘There Is a lone caretaker in the larger hostelries, but otherwisa the presence of any one on the beach is an event. ‘The fire started about 8 A, M, to-day FIRE}: were enveloped the entire north aide of the and the end of the hotel was a roaring furnace, ‘Tho fire departments from Far Rovk- away and Lawrence wero called by the police of Ruckaway and Atverne, Be- fore the engines arrived the flames had read from the Waldorf to a cottage tween it and the Germania Hotel, a ‘oom ne nope of fa the Waldorf and the cott was abandoned when the firemen atrived. A strong wind was carrying the flames along the beach, amd in thelr path stood hotel: 4 cot. tages worth hundreds of thousands, Streams of water were turned on tho Germania. ‘his water was obtained from the sea, which was running high and which made it both diMoult and Gangerous for the iiremen to work. The water could not check the flames Sparks were thrown upon the second hotel, and it was soon burning from cellar to roof and the flames sweeping on to two other cottages. The next cottage !s gome distance from the nenrest hotel, and by hard ‘work th ithe pollo pO) h n as to the origin ph on the beach or in the neighbor. hood of the Waklort last night, Tho Waldort Hotel and cottagos were a by Timothy Kiely, who eptimat fis lose at $50,000, Herman Merthaus, owner of the Germania and Cojumbia. hotels, makes a similar estimate of loss, —————— HENRY B, PIERCE DEAD, President of Mercantile Firm Be pires at Homa, Henry B, Plerce, president and treaa. urer of Hutchinson, Plerke & Co,’ died early to-day In his apartthents in the Oakdale, on West Thirty-ffth street Ho was born at West Boylston, Mass, March 11, 1842, and was educated at the _ New Ipswich Academy, He came to New York jn 1883, and soon after jofned the firm with which he continued to the time of his death, Mr. Plerce was a member of the Lotos and Union League Clubs, Alding eg Hee Pat, of the Revolu' roo few Engilan joclety, and wag a cl ‘e ler member of Republic Lodge, #, and A. M., of this elty, | | The only place in the United States that guarantees freedom from strikes, lockouts and labor warfare is Battle Creek, Mich, The story? The work people, mer- | chants, lawyers, doctors and other | citizens became aroused and jndig-) | nant at the efforts of the labor ynidna | throughout the country to destroy the business of one of our largest indus: tries—the Postum Cereal Co, L' and at the open threats in the offictal| union papers, that the entire power | of the National and State Federation | Creek, and particularly the Postum | Co. | This sprung from the refusal of C. HW. Post to obey the “orders” of the MONTAGUE AND COURT ST, COMPANY'S CARELESSNESS NEARLY CAUSES TRAGEDY, +- Pollee Captain Deyanney, of the Brooklyn Bridge. police force, said } to-day that beoause of the shortsightedness of the management of the il Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company last night the captain and his men} nerd *tofced to act at platform men at the Manhatfin end of the ridge | at a heavy cost to the taxpayers. |’ “The BR, T.,” ho said, “never ‘notified mo.or any of my men of the } changes that they Tad niadé:lh the schedule, ‘In fact, they did not even | notify the travelling public. Nhat there wag nat loss of life in the crush was an act of providence, For one-half hour I.expetted a tragedy to oc- eur momentarily, “When the reserves were called for I took two sergeants, two rounds: | men and eighteen policemen with me on the run; We picked up another sergeant on the wa: ‘Buch a crush I never saw before on the bridge platform. No one seemed to know whore to send the passengers for their respective trains, | and the policemen ware foroed to act as platform men.” bout 11 to 12 o'olovk Jn the cold for a jalsey atreet car trom 15 to 9) minutes, Thope The Wot) can stop this outrage, UL, J. BURT: No, 462 N Putnam and Hal Snough, Gates ruj they’ can, but 4 settled distri onough atreet, doesn't run cars about as many as t enough for this » Nine days out or L, we have to We vo thickly of ten, elther surf: hang onto straps to New York, need a Gatos subway, H, 2, CHRISTIE, No, 2% Madison street. Cars are indegeribably filthy and damnnably slow. Service ‘on Gaths and Putnam avenue Hnes. is samisweekly Conductors’ clothes are so filthy they should ba fumigated, F, H, WILKINGON, No, 561 Putnam avenue, That It has a more misman, ays tem of transit than any ike atl | in the United States: that it shows au! ubsolute disregard for public gomfort | convenience and health; and. my specif | {ngiances of complaint would require an untire page in The Evenine World WwW. Rs CLOWERING, Halsey sireet, The cara are aversrowded very ofte | to the point of Indecenay, especially th Putnam avenue line, Cara on’ this lin seem to be run on any kind of dim that miits the company, Am in favor o the subway, _ ROBERT FERN, No, 833 Halsey street. About one-half cars on Putnam ave- nue line dirty; on Nostrand, Tompkins ond Siemner avenue lines transfers whould be given going to one direction wntown or downtown. W. B. PLACE, 457 McDonough street. Wife down town recently let three crowded cars go by at Grand avenue and Putman, at about 6 o'clock and eventually squeezed into the fourth car and hung on to tho strap up to Reid avenue. At 4.90 1 let a dozen ears go by at WWatbush avenue and Vulton_ street, Thero were three or more Wulton atreet cars to move and ‘he same number of Green and Gates to avery Putnam and Halsey, of which 1} let a dozen go by on account of walking toward home, Thought I saw @ ohanoo Cor standing tom at For. Greene place, got on, but before wa had gone far enough for conductor to get my fare other passengers got on} so thero was no fvot place loft when Conductor reached the rear end of the car where I was, I either had to stand On Uploe or get off. 1 chore to get off and try again, I must have heen de- a from 4.30 iv. I got in my at 6, 1 DBLAVAN, cock strect Poor ser i {n the even vowding of tho biidge station; also too fow oars on Bit- nam avenue and Halsey atreet line at all hours, day and ni FLANDRAU, 0 Macon atrect, It fails to furnish an adequate gery foe on the Putnam avenue and Halsey street lines, due Jarg ly to neglect of the facilities for itching back, say from Rold avenue, Y. or nearly empty, na to aeoommodate the morn- rush. It 48 dane sometimes and iy might be done every day, ¥ id rs D. REED, No, 1A Halsey street, COMPANY DEFINI STATE BOARD. No Effort Mude to Comply with Orders Given Two Yoary Ago, How little the Brovklyn Rapid Trafsit Company cares for the Brooklyn pub- Ne or for the State Board of Railroad Commissioners 1s shown by the way it has treated the following directions of the State Railroad Commisslone: in January, 1903, two years ago, 1, That the B, R, T, Company pro- ceed energetically to the ecarilont made | pouslble completion of nine power Jatationa or anita, & That the company shall forth. with restore and resume the full service of surface cars an all lines, which the evidence tnken by the bonrd shows to have been reduced during the latter half of 1902; that the number of cars s0 placed in Operation shall not be lea than the number then operated, and that they shall each make no fewer trips than is shown by the schedules and passenger sheets of the first six months of 1902, 3, That the company ahall, during all other than the rush hours, whenever (he temperature in be- low 46 degrees, immediately pro- ceed to heat ith cars) and in rush hours as voon an the new eentral power-houne ther, the co thermome the rear pany shall ea Ouiside exeh ear on latform, no ihe passen+ an see when the temperature | en 45 dewreen, 4, That the company take prompt measures for the Insiallation of & duplicate wystem of power trann- mission Hines, Inying them ont tor nafety’s sake on routes separated from the existing system, Ignored Them All, There ‘e other secommentations, » ave all which are now being ening World hat already shawn Brooklyn Kapil Cranait Com the above noe ny does not heat { fn rush hours, Nor does it hea cara at any hour, Heat ‘ ra k A t ‘J n tha i ars, Tt nake 100, a year by yemoving rubbish for the city by robbing the Brooklyn nublic of decent travelling facilities, It mukes another large sum by dolag an express business, | unions to take the Postum advertis- ing away from various papers that refused to purchase labor of the Jabor trust—the unions, Mr, Post was ordered to toln the | unfons in their conspiracy to “pain and “put out of business” these pub- | lishers who had worked falthfully for him for years, and helped build up his business, They had done no wrong, but had found it inconvenient and against their best judgment to buy labor of the labor trust, It seems @ rule of the unions to conspire to ruin | any one who does not purchase from them upon their own terms. An ink maker or paper maker who failed to seil ink or paper would have the same reason to order Post to help ruin these publishers, So the peddler in the street might stone you if you refused to buy his apples; the cabman to run over you if you refused to ride with him; the grocer order the manu- '! facturer to discharge certain people because they, did not patronize him, and go on to the ridiculous and vil- Jainous limit of all this boycott non- sense, In trying to force people to buy what they do not want. If a man has labor to sell let him sell it at the best price he-can get’ juat as he would sell wheat, but he bas no right to even intimate that he will obstruct the business, or at~ tampt its ruin because the owner will not purchase of him. The unions have become so tyran- nous and arrogant with their despot. iam that a common citizen who has some time to spare and innocently thinks he has a right to put a little paint on his own house finds he must have that paint taken off and put on again by “the union” or all sorts of dire; things happen to him, his em- ployer {8 ordered to discharge him, his grocer 1s boycotted if he fure nishes him supplies, his family fol- lowed and insulted and his life made more miserable than that of a black slave before the war. If he drives a nail to repair the house or barn the carpenters’ “union” hounds him, He takes a pipe wrench to stop a loaking pipe and pravent damage to his prop- erty and the plumbers “unton” docs things to him, He cannot put @ little mortar to a loose brick on his chim- ney or the bricklayera’, plastere#’ or hod-carrlers’ “union” 16 up in arms; and if he carelessly eats a lvaf of bread that has no “union” abe) on it the bakers’ “union” procveds to make life miserable for him, So the white slave {s tled hand and foot, unable tu lift a hand to better himself or do the needfu! things, without first obtaining permission fram some haughty, Ignorant and abusive tyrant of sorce Jabor union, It would all seem rather ike a comic opera, if it did not reb people of their freedom; that kind of work will not be permitted long 12 Ato rica, Some smooth managera have built up the labor trust In the last few years, to bring themselves money and power, and by managing workmen, haye succeeded in making {t possible for them to lay down the law In some cities and force workmen and citlzens to “obey” Implictily, stripping them right and left of thelr lberties, They have used boycotting, pleket- ing, assaults, dynamiting of property }and murder to enforce their orders | and rule the people, They have gone r enough to order the President to yomove certain citizens from. offivo because the “Unions” weren't pleased. | That means they pronose to make the law of the unions replace the law ‘| of this Government, and the union leaders dominate even the chief Ex- ecutive. This sa governmenfof and for the e it. nit and then, led by shown in ¢ defla support of law-breakers, ‘unlon" record crippling of men and even women and ehildven, destruction of property and murder of American oltizens dir- | ing the past two years is perhaps ten times the yolume of erlme and abuse perpotrated by slave owners during any two years previous to the clyil war. We are in a horrible period of lethargy, which permits us to stand idly by while our American citizens Lie abused, crippled and murdered in of assaults] 2¢ dozegs and hundreds by an organiza- tlon or trust, having for its purpose thrusting. what it has to sell (labor) Upon us whether or no. Suppose an American in a fore} city should bo chased by a mob, caught and beaten unconscious, then his mouth pried open and carbolle acid poured down his throat, then his riby kicked in and his face well stamped with lron-nailed shoes, mur- dered because he tried to earn bread for his children, By the, Eternal, sir, @ fleet of American Men-of-War; would assemble there, clear for ac- tion and blow something off the face} of the earth, if reparation were not} made, for the blood of one of our citizens, And what answer do we make to the appeals of the hundreds of wid- ows and orphans of those Americans murdered by labor unions? How do we try to protect the thousands of intelligent citizens who, with reason, prefer not to join any labor union and be subject to the tyranny of the heavily pald rulers of the labor truste? Upon a firm refusal by Mr. Post to join this criminal conspiracy, a gen- eral boycott was ordered on Grape- Nuts and Postum all over the coun- try, which get the good red blood of our ancestors in motion, bringing forth the reply thut-has now passed {nto history: ‘Wo refuse to join any conspiracy of organized labor to ruin publishers, nor will we discharge any of our trusted employees upon the or- ders of any labor union. If they can make their boycott effective and alnk our ship, we will go down with the captain on the bridge and in com- mand.” This set the writers in labor papers craay, and they redoubled their | abuse, Finally one of thelr official organs out with a large, double- column denunciation of Battle Creek, calling {t “a running sore on the face of Michigan,” because {t would not nized” and pay in dues |to thelr labor leaders. The usnal | eoarse, villainous epithets common to Iabor-union writers were indulged in, The result was to weld public jnti- ment In Battle Creek for protection, A citizens’ association was started and mass meetings held. Good citi- zens who happened to be members of local unions In some cases quit the unions entirely, for thers 1s small need of them there. The working-people of Battle Creek are of the highest order of American mechanics, The majority are not union members, for practically all of) the manufacturers have for years de-} clined to employ unton men because of disturbances about eleven years ago, and the union men now in the city are among the best citizens. No city in the State of Michigan pays as high average wages a6 Battle Creek, no city of ite size 18 as pros- perous, and no city has so large a proportion of the best grade of me- chanics who own thelr own homes, So the work people massed together with the other citizens in the organ!- sation of the Citizens’ Association with the following preamble and con- stitution: Whereas, from 1891 to 1894 the strikes instigated by Labor Unions in Battle Creek resulted in the de- struction of property and lose of Jarge sums of money {n wages that would have been expended here; and, Whereas, these acta caused serious damage to the city and in a marked way delayed its progress at that timo; and, Whereas, alnce the year 1894 the citigons have been enabled, by public sentiment, to prevent the recurrence of strikes and Labor Union distur. bances which hnve been prevalent elsewhere; and, Whereas, the employers of this city have steadfastly refused to placo the management of thelr business under the control of Labor Unions, but have maintained the highest staudard of wages paid under like conditions any- where in the Uae States, and hereby unanimously declare thelr in- tent to continue such polley; and the employees of this clty, a large per- centage of whom own homes and have families reared and educated under conditions of peaco and tho well-earned prosperity of stoady om- ployment, have steadfastly ma tained their right as free American citizens to work without the dictation | and tyranny of Laboy Union leaders, | the bitter experienco of the past fering sufficient reason for a dete n nd for freedom the attitude of the eltl- subject has been the | of preserving peaceful condl- | and continuous prosperity in marked contrast to the conditions ox- the dictation of Trades Unionism; it is therefore Resolved, that the continuance of| avoided under the combined | other workmen, destroy pr. +801 isting in other cltles suffering from } — and i. formation of a Citisens’ Association, CONSTITUTION, ANTICLE 1.—NAMB, ARTICLE 2,—OBJECTS, First—To insure, 60 far as possible, ® permanent condition of peace, pros- perity and steady employment to the people of Battle Creek, A Second—To energetically assist in maintaining law and order at all times and under all conditons. Third—To protect its members in their rights to manage their property and dispose of their labor in a Jegal, lawful manner without restraint or interference, j Fourth—To insure and permanent- ly maintain fair, just treatment, one! Nii another, in all the relations of e, Fitth—To preserve the existing right of any capable person to obtain employment and sell his labor, with- out being obliged to join any particu-! lar church, secret society, labor union or any other organization, and to support all such peraons in their ef- forts to realst compulsory methods on the part of any organised body what- soever, Sixth—To promote among employ- ors a apirit of fairness, friendship and desire for the best interests of thelr employees, and to promote among workmen the opirit of and good citizenship, Seventh—To so amalgamate the public sentiment of all of the best! citizens of Battle Creek that a guar- antee can be given to the world of & continuance of peaceful conditions, and that under such guarantee and protection manufacturers and capital- ists can be induced to locate their business enterprises in Battle Creek, Then follow articles relating to membership, officers, duties, &c,, &c., 0, This constitution hag been signed by the great majority of representa- tive citizens, including our work-| people, A number of manufacturers fron other citles, where they have been suffering all sorts of indignities, {n- convenience and losses from the gen- eral hell of labor unjen strikes, pick- eting, assauits and other interference, proposed to move, providing they could be guarartesd protection, The subject grew in importance un- til It has reached a place where abso- lute protection can be guaranteed by the citizens of Battle Creek on the following broad and evenly balanced terms which guarantees to the work» man and to manufacturer fairness, justice, steady work and regularity of output. The new-coming manufacturer agrees (o maintain the standard rato of ‘wage paid elsewhere for like ner- vice, under similar conditions, the rate to be determined from time to time from woll-authenticated reports from competing cities. The tabulated wage reports lesued by the Govern- ment Department of Commerce and Labor can also be used to show the standard rate, and it ts expected later on that this Government bureau will furnish woekly reports of the labor markot from different centres, so that the workman, when he is ready to sell his labor, and the employer, when he {s ready to buy, may each have reliable information aa to the market or ruling price, The new-coming manufacturer also agrees to maintain the sanitary and ‘hygienic conditions provided for by the State laws, and to refrain from any lockouts to reduce wages below the standard; reserving to himself the right to discharge any employee for cause, The Citizens’ Assoclation on its part agrees to furnish, in such num- bers as it 1s possible to obtain, first- class workmen who will contract to sell thelr labor at the standard price r for such perlod as may be fixed upon, agroeing not to strike, picket, r¢saul do any of the criminal gots to labor unionism, Bach worl reverving to himself the rig work for cause, and the Citizen soclation further pledges {ts 1 to use Its assoclated power to the contracts between emp’ employes, and to act en ma hold the law at all times, The now industries locating in Rat- flo Crealt will not start 1 sort of labor-union daminat ror, but will male Indl tracts with each en tracts being falr a guaranteed on both B, Thus from the abuses of labor untons and their {nsane efforts to 'y one who does not “obey"’ ved this plan, which replacas conditions of Injustice, lock- outs, siriker, violence, loss of money and property, and general industrial of all our people, by the: prosperity, industry,| thrift, faithfulness to their employers) Gny Result of Boycott. The entire community | pledged by public sentiment and pri+ vate act to restore to each man his anctent right to “peace, freedom and the pursuit of happiness,” Other cities will be driven to pros |tect thelr work-people, merchants | and citizens as well as thelr indus- ‘tries from the blight of strikes, vio= lenee and the losses brought on by labor unfonism run amuck, by adopt+ ing the “Battle Creek plan,” but this | clty offers industrial peace now with {cheap coal and good water, first-class railroad facilities and the best grad@ \of fair, capable and peaceable mo+ chanics known, ” | Details given upon inquiry of the “Seey, of tho Citizens’ Aes'n,” | pont | Identification. The public should remember tha* there are a few labor Unions coz ducted on peaceful lines, and in prv= | portion as they are worthy, they Lave won esteem, for we, af a people, ate |atrongly in sympathy with any right | conditions for wage-workers, But we do not forget that we seek tha | good of all and not those alone who belong to some organization, where- as even the law-abiding unions show undeniable evidences of tyranny and, oppression when they are strong enough, while many of the unions harbor and encourage criminals in their efforts to force a yoko of slavery | upon the American people, As a pubs ec speaker lately sald: “The arros eance of the English King that roused the flery eloquence of Otis, that inspired the immortal declara+ tion of Jefferson, that left Warren dying on the slopes of Bunker Hill, was not more outrageous than the conditions that a closed shop woul foree upon the community, Theso men burst into rebellion ‘when tite. King did but touch their pockets.’ Ym- agine, if you can, thelr indignant pro- | test had he sought to prohibit or re+ strict their occupation or determine the conditions under which they should earn thelr livelihood,” and to assault, beat and murder them, blow up thelr houses and poison their food if they did not submit, The public should also remember. ‘that good, true, American citizens can | be found Jn the unions, and that they deprecate the criminal acts of their fellow-mombers, but they are often {in bad company, | Salt only hurts sore spots, So, the | honest, law-abiding union inan {s not hurt when the criminals are do« uounced, but when you hear a union jman “holler” because the facts are made public, he has branded himsolf | as either one of the law-breakers or @ sympathizer, and therefore with the mind of the law-breakey, and likely to become cne when opportunity of fers, That {9 one reason employers decline to hire such men, (Soe A short time ago inquiry camo from the union forces to know if Mr. Post would “keep still” if they would’ | call off the buycott on Postum and Grape-Nuta, This is the reply; has seen fit to try to ruin our bust hess because we would not join ita criminal conspiracy. We are plain American citizens and differ from the labor union plan in that we do not forco people to strike, picket, boys cott, arsault, blow up property or commit murder, We do fot pay thugs $20 to breale in the fe of ony man who trles to support his family nor $80 for an knocked out, ; ne We try to show our plain, honest regard for sturdy ond independent workmen by paying the highest wages In the State, Wo have a ston spect for the In ling, peaceable Union man, an nost earnest desire to sae him gain power enough to purge the unions of thelr criminal ilees that have brought down m the righteous denunciation fering and outraged pubs whi pot fawn, truckle, i the hated cott\r he union label, nor rican ettizenship labor trust, yestnetion unton" gold “The labor trust Unvarylng ye« a lon Ue, but w on of the Jos Deneath an the freedom of our @ us with o ellver bar nal to 1 for them, ' hans succeed ow people out of work us f business, but rom us that fought for , ¢ son guards with jin throwing and driving you cannot priceless and w om peace and prosperity in Battle Creel | warfare; and inaugurates an ora of; Ns Ife, Therefore, speaking for our can be maintained, and the destruce| parfeot balance and fatrness between! Work-people and ourselves, the Me tive work of outside interference employer and employee, a steady con- famous offer is dealined,' effprt’ tinuanos of industry and consequent! POSTUM CHREAL CO, Kid, / | / act that has for its purpose batter | , \