Upton Sinclair, Jr. And The Ju

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From his friendship with a young minister, Sinclair got a devotion to moral and social justice. The Reverend, W. W. Moir took the Gospels so seriously that he taught his students that a rich man had no chance of going to Heaven. When he gave Sinclair some works to read, Sinclair found them so contradictory to Moir's teachings, he lost faith in orthodox religion, but for the rest of his life he did believe in the moral teachings of Jesus. From that point on his writing became highly serious and idealistic.

Now finally unto the interesting part. The Meat Cutters' strike, 1904, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, with 56,000 members, demanded that the "Beef Trust" - Armour, Cudahy, Swift, and other great meat packing companies - grant a wage to all workers in all their plants throughout the country. The companies responded with an offer of a minimum wage for workers classified as skilled. The union saw this as a trick. They thought the companies would later "change" many ...

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