Chapter 14—Avoiding Labor Conflicts
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The time is fast coming when the controlling power of the labor
unions will be very oppressive. Again and again the Lord has instructed
that our people are to take their families away from the cities, into the
country, where they can raise their own provisions; for in the future the
problem of buying and selling will be a very serious one. We should
now begin to heed the instruction given us over and over again: Get
out of the cities into rural districts, where the houses are not crowded
closely together, and where you will be free from the interference of
enemies.—
Letter 5, 1904
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Avoid Party Strifes
Men have confederated to oppose the Lord of hosts. These confed-
eracies will continue until Christ shall leave His place of intercession
before the mercy seat, and shall put on the garments of vengeance.
Satanic agencies are in every city, busily organizing into parties those
opposed to the law of God. Professed saints and avowed unbelievers
take their stand with these parties. This is no time for the people
of God to be weaklings. We cannot afford to be off our guard for a
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moment.—
Testimonies for the Church 8:42
(1904).
The trades unions will be one of the agencies that will bring upon
this earth a time of trouble such as has not been since the world
began.—
Letter 200, 1903
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Conflicts Between Trade Confederacies and Labor Unions
The work of the people of God is to prepare for the events of the
future, which will soon come upon them with blinding force. In the
world gigantic monopolies will be formed. Men will bind themselves
together in unions that will wrap them in the folds of the enemy. A
few men will combine to grasp all the means to be obtained in certain
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