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"As the Empire expanded so did the Salvation Army. Along with all the other Christian sects they were quick to claim a slice of each country's native people as their spiritual property. Along with other Christians they worked to tear native communities apart and fill them with the values of hard work and capitalism.(10) Here in Australia the Salvation Army ran missions to 'Christianise' Aboriginals and helped take their children to be given to white Christians.

"Wherever it went the Salvation Army maintained its support for 'things as they are'. As Booth put it, 'a philanthropic body cannot afford to alienate the class which supports it'.(11) This is a notion very much alive in the Army today.(12) Most famously the Army clashed with the Industrial Workers of the World in a series of countries. The IWW was an anarchist-influenced union.

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"In helping fight the IWW the Salvation Army eliminated all competition. It helped carve out a position for itself as one of the only organisations allowed by the government to 'help' the homeless and unemployed."

-- from "The Starvation Army: Twelve reasons to reject the Salvation Army" (long but educational -- before you drop money in the red kettles of an organization that has lobbied against rights for people like me and many of my friends, ask how much of their agenda you support beyond the bits they want you to be thinking about)