Social Problems of To-Day; Or, The Mormon Question in Its Economic Aspects. A Study of Co-operation and Arbitration in Mormondom, From the Standpoint of a Wage-Worker by A Gentile [pseud.] by [Lum, Dyer Daniel] - 1886

Port Jervis, NY: D.D. Lum & Co, 1886. 91p., lacks wraps, pages evenly browned, ownership stamp of a Port Jervis dentist on front wrap. Defense of the Mormons by a non-Mormon and a plea for tolerance of polygamy. In the 1880s the federal goverment passed a number of laws against Mormon polygamy. Plural marriage had been outlawed in 1882, and the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 would disincorporate the Mormon church. "Dyer D. Lum was the leading anarchist-syndicalist of the 1880s. He was an advocate of violence and of trade unionism between 1880 and 1892 and a prominent left-wing intellectual and publicist." *Johnpoll & Klehr's Biographical dictionary of the American left p. 255.