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TMB CATHOLIC:· Sub1eriptlon1 -~ol. XXIX No. 1 JULY· AUGUST, 1962 2lo Per Yeu Torture In ·Spain More About Cuba BJ' DOROTHY DAY Norman Thomas and Salvador de Madariaga Last month the National Council I had been asked. But I was there Cardinal Hayes sent us word Urge Kennedy to Protest of Catholic Men, with the consent Just to introduce the others. ' years ago, through Monsignor of the Bishops of the United States, On another occasion the chan­ Cbidwick that ha approved our The recent strikes in S.Pain and th.e meetinc in Munich early In Jane were making a documentary on the cellor of the archdiocese of New good work, and it was to be under­ of of Ute Congress the European Movement attended by opponen&ll ot Catholic Worker movement, a York asked me i! I saw everything stood that we woul~ make mistake1 the Franeo regime such de Madaria&"a and Gil Robles have provoked week's work of filming to be con­ that went into the Catholic Worker, and the thing was not to persist in numerous arrests, exilinc1 and torture. densed into a one-half hour of for which after all I am responsible them. On another occasion Cardi­ Aceordinc to " IBERICA." a muazine devotee! to th• return of a television time on a Sunday morn­ as editor and publisher. I told h1m nal Spellman expressed approval democratic regime in Spain, liberal Catholle1 and trade nnlonis&ll ban ing in this coming September on yes, and that is true with few ex­ of some of the aspects of our work, been the principal vtetlma of recent police repression in Spain. the program, Look Up and Live. ceptions, when the paper was though It is undoubtedly true that More Utan one hundred workers and 1tudents are belnc trlecl - One of the questions asked of a printed durln1 my absence, and there are many aspects of It which eharrea of belenglng to Ute Popular Liberation Front ·and ot havtq group of the editors sitting in the the material coming in late was he is probably very dubious about, participated in the 1trikes. third floor office on Chrystle used at once, assuming my ap­ if not downright disapproving. The In Valencia an army chaplain, Father Jose Bailo, bu been tried b1 a Street was, "Do you aiiree with proval. Perhaps on two or three fact remains tbat we have been military tribunal for the first time In Franeo Spain. Be wu aceaaed, everything that la written In The occasions I disapproved of the given, from the very first, the free­ la a trial, held behind closed doors, of dlstrib1dinc clandestine propa­ Catholic Worker?" emphasia given by the placing of dom which It Is to be expected we •anda, insulting the Chief of State and inciting to disorder. The tribunal As I remember it, all 'of them material, as well u by the articles laymen should take in handling er three cenerals wu headed by General Cabanillas, said to be a cloae answered "No," and I would have themselves. But no great harm temporal affairs, which after all ia (Continued on page 2 ) given the same answer myself, lf was done. our province. That is a great gilt. It seems to me that if the Catholio Worker dld nothing else but in­ dicate to critics the enormous free­ Exploitation In dom there Is in the Church, which laymen so far have not taken ad­ vantage of, it is doing a good job. Our Hospitals A few months ago when I had a Br EDGAR FORAND visit with Cardinal Leger in There is pmbably no one group Montreal and he asked me about of workers In the city of New the position of the Catholic Worker York who are a ny more exploited In the church, I replied that we th n t he non-medical workers in were a group of Catholics, engaged our ho pital-;;. These •people, not In writing and editing a paper deal­ to mention low wages and some­ ing with the great problems ,of the times long hours, are even denied day-the role of the State in the right to representation of t heir man's ille, war and peace, means own choosing and collective bar­ and ends. That we had no chap­ gaining. Ab ut two-thirds of the lains. were In no way an organiza­ w r ker ar e Negroes and Puer to tion Included in Catholic Action, Rican who earo salaries from that we were under no bishop, aDli that w were therefore free to around $43 to $47 per week. After explore ll possibilities of reform tJ ...~ "' ,j :>' '.t.:>r d~J ...:don · tlli: r and restotatlon without committing net pay in many cases falls below the hierarchy to dangerous posi­ $40 each week. tions, and to try to rebulld the Although Governor Rockefeller social order to make a better stepped in to halt the strikes at society" where it is easier for men two of the hospitals here, t here to be good." To be good men, to be are many problems ahead befor e holy men is to be whole men, living the settlement is translated into a full ille, developing · all their r eal stability. The Governor said capacities for good, using the he would try to get the state law talents God has given them. amended to grant collective bar­ The Cardinal had been looking gaining r ights to hitherto exempt at me from under his heavy brows, ho pital worker<; and would ask for his deep set eyes scarcely visible. a no-strike clause and compulsory But when he lifted bis head he arbitration in an impasse. A bill smiled and commented, "St. John with similar purposes failed to get the Baptist." a vole last spring. It was violently We are among those who go opposed (according to the N. Y. ahead and prepare the way. This Times) by powerfu[ Roman Cath­ long preliminary is to indicate that olic leaders and leaders o.f other we are Catholics in good standing, charitable institutions. The state that we revere our clergy and are labor federation swung against Jt not hesitant to speak to the clergy. at the end because of its arbitr a­ To print the criticism of others ii tion proposal and penalty featur e. not to mean that we are anti­ Of cour e, all this law will do clerical. We are reporting events is simply authorize unions to try and the point of view which led to to organize workers and win rep­ these events. r esentation. The city went through Of course we are not in agree­ a long, painful hospital strike ment with the most basic and t hree years ago. The central issue fundamental point of view as ex:· then, as now was union recogni­ pressed by our friend Marlo Gon- tlon. The 1959 truce avoided the (Continued on page ~) cru x: of the problem, which is how to prevent hospital strikes while at the same time giving the em­ One Man At Hiroshiina By Elizabeth Sheehan RESPECT FOR LIFE ployees some effective means of Ammon Hennacy is fasting impr oving their wretched condi­ BURNING CONSCIENCE, by the magnitude of whose effects age. In America, ,. however, this for forty days, u penance for tions. Claude EaUterly and Gunther staggers human mental, emotional disturbed and disturbing "war our dropping the first atom In the RWDSU Record for July Anders. Preface by Bertrand and moral capacities. But we are hero" has proved a th or n y bomb on Hiroshima. In the or­ 1, 1962, c :1ar les Michaelson has Russell. Monthly Review Press, not merely faced with an abstract embarrassment to family, friends, dinary course of events he focused his story on one individual; New York, N.Y. $4.00. issue. Condemned for life to this law enforcement officials, and the would be fasting seventeen his job, his home, his life, his same abyss is a man who symbol­ United States Air Force. So few of days this year, since seventeen hopes and fears and things that "He who doesn't lose his mind izes ·in his unhappy self all that is us here even know who he is! years have passed since the make him r isk the little he has in over certain things has none to implied in both the a b o v e Claude Robert Eatherly was the dropping of the bomb. But he the effort to organize. This story, lose." -Lessing sentences. 26 year old Air Force Major from is including in his fast of pro­ with minor changes, holds true for "Hiroshima in itself is not This man is Claude Eatherly, the Van Alstyne, Texas, chosen to pilot test, a plea for a young man thousands of other voluntary hos­ enough to explain his be­ "Hiroshima pilot" and· this book the lead plane over Hiroshima whose execution is slated for pital workers ln N. Y. C. havior." -A Psychiatrist brings to the American public for early on the morning of August 6, September 14 and for two other Antonion Colon is 36 years old VA Hospital, Waco, Tex. the first time a remarkable cor­ 1945. A veteran of many conven­ young men condemned to death and a member of Drug and Hospi­ respondence between Eatherly and tional Pacific bombing missions, in Utah where the death pen­ Between these two statements­ tal Employees Local 1199 of the the German philosopher , moralist Eatherly gave the coded "go­ alty is a choice of shooting or one by an 18th century German RWDSU.

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