Ruinous Rule by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

Ruinous Rule.

By Editor

If anything could be more meanly tyrannical than the Labor Union has lately shown itself to be, we hope we shall never see it. In Chicago a plumber was boycotted because he chose to teach his two boys his own trade. In New York City a brush-maker was giving employment to seventeen little crippled boys by which they managed to earn a scanty living. The Union notified the proprietor to turn out the cripples or stand a boycott, and by the cowardice of the employer, out the poor cripples had to go. Thus unfortunates must be turned out to beggary or to starvation, and able-bodied boys forbidden to learn honest trades and caused to grow up in idleness with the vicious and the criminal that “labor” may be protected and that the boycott may rule. But we are not prepared to believe that the American people have yet so far lost the spirit of ’76 as to be ready to submit to any such infamous tyranny.