Labour Union Membership in the Light of Scripture
Prof. David Engelsma presents a principled, Scripture-based argument against Christian participation in labor unions, drawing on his firsthand experience with union violence and corruption in the Chicago area. The pamphlet applies biblical standards to evaluate union membership as a matter of Christian ethics and conscience, arguing that Scripture condemns unionism's essential character regardless of secular cultural acceptance or majority church approval.
Preface This pamphlet is the revised text of a speech on the subject of labour union membership given in Lansing, Illinois under the auspices of the Evangelism Committee of the Peace Protestant Reformed Church of Lansing. The fact that the speech was given in a south suburb of that great centre of labour unionism accounts, in large part, for the repeated references to Chicago. During my fourteen-year pastorate of a congregation in the Chicagoland area, I came to know firsthand the violence,...