Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality by Edward O'Donnell

Author:Edward O'Donnell [O'Donnell, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, 19th Century, State & Local, Middle Atlantic (DC; DE; MD; NJ; NY; PA), Social Science, Sociology, Urban
ISBN: 9780231120005
Google: wszRrQEACAAJ
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-01-15T22:27:04+00:00

“A FORMIDABLE WEAPON OF DEFENSE”

The streetcar strikes and the accompanying “Boodle Aldermen” scandal formed only a part of that spring’s ideologically fraught events. Of equal importance were the series of high-profile boycotts launched by a host of unions against offending employers. In recent months, unionists, led by the CLU, had employed the boycott with great effect against printers, brewers, newspapers, manufacturers, and theaters.63 No complete statistics exist on the number of boycotts waged in New York City, though the State Bureau of Labor Statistics reported what it could for the year 1885 (table 6.1).

Through early 1886, labor benefited from the fact that the boycott was a novel and subtle method of challenging employers. As a result, the police and courts tolerated boycotting for the most part. Harassment was confined to the arrest of pickets posted to inform the public of a boycott in progress. But with the boycott’s increasing use and effectiveness by midspring 1886, authorities soon moved to ban it.64 Three boycotts during this period drew special attention from the press, public, and legal authorities who eventually initiated a legal crackdown: those waged against Theiss’s music hall, Gray’s bakery, and Landgraff’s bakery. Each gained widespread public attention and ended with sweeping arrests of those involved.

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