The Picket Line: Appeal to Prejudice

Modern man has come to condone and even to encourage a phenomenon which amounts to an organized invitation to meddle in fights not of his making, and only rarely involving his interest. I mean the picket line. Its chief use is in labor disputes.

The point of the union picket line is to establish a barrier to free intercourse, and it is instituted by only one of the parties to the dispute. Yet for years, everybody—doctor, lawyer and priest—has defended the picket line and tolerated its abuses.