A request to business owners whose employees want to form a union: just shut down rather than having to ask the government for a bailout in ten years. There’s less shame in it.
The “O” said he’d lower the working man’s taxes. Who’d have thought he meant by cancelling the earnings.
Atwater Kent was a very prominent maker of radios in the 1920s — sort of the Michael Dell of his era. He told his factory workers that if they ever voted to unionize he’d shut the business down. They did. He did.