Here is the Rector's comment on this amazing act of
tyranny :
" This means the depriving the public of the use of the public biers, and the forcing them to use the very expensive hearse with their thoroughbred black horses. No undertaker dare, I suppose, refuse to obey this arbitrary order of the association. To do so would be to find himself boycotted, and unable to obtain the necessary furniture and requirements for conducting a funeral."
The Rector adds that even the Guardians of the Poor are subjected to this decree and not allowed to use their own bier. The Undertakers Association have replied that they do not desire in any way to interfere with walking or economical
funerals, but that they object to the instability of the wheeled bier. After the long use of this particular bier the explanation is very thin. The fact is that,the trade most unwarrantably tried to dictate under the usual threat of a strike.
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