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lVol. V. No. 4. AUGUST, 1931 Price One Cent Lowell W.'s 0 1 c. Christ -w " .i Bouse Sounder Cardinal Aid StriJc.e Be Union Man ' AnsY1ers Active Catholic Workers Priests show By Activity Paper Smaller, Set Up Kitchen . They Know Where Our L• Th Criticism For Strikers • Lord Would Be Ille . e same The f ollowing i1 comp()sea of e:: "Christ would be a labor leader The following is taken from a cerpts f rom a letter from one of if he were alive today," Father DAY AFTER DAY letter by Cardinal Verdier, print t he Lowell Gatll.olic i~orker1 , dei· Jahn B. Dela.unay, C.S.C., said in cribi ng the recent Boote M i.Ii strike a sermon at St. Patrick's Cathed ed in La Cro!x, and in answer to Low en, Maar. The..., Bod on gro1'p ral where he preached B.uring As we write our articles for the paper tills issue, the house is being certain crit icism by reactionary did toonaerfu l service, an.a it u;41 July. He is dean or men at Port torn down around us, and put to Catholic press of "Sept" and "!.a due t o t heir parti cipation, '"' c land University, Oregon. grgat measure, that the 1trike toa .s gether again. The, stor.y which be Vie lntellectuelle," progressive He would become a labor leader. gan la11t January, telling of tile settled. the priest pointed out, because His Freni:h Catholic periodicals. Tran5- sympathy, common sense and per threat of eviction because ours !• lated and arranged by Peter To begin at the beginning, John an old style tenement, confilctlnc Magee hlld been contacting the suasive speech. -would win the eon11. with fire laws, has now reached a · Maurin. C.I.O. leaders in Lowell and Law dence of His fellow workers and climax. It ls not the unhappy ell· "It-erhaps some ofticial would have I. An Old Saying rence, in an attempt to find out max of an e'tiction. The house Is just what we could do to help greeted the Young Labor Delegate - Ade B ~t11 une being made OTer to conform "WWl 1. The Cllur c~ ta case of an emergency, He found with intemperate and blaaphemous the law. Which Dieau that 1*1' as everybody knows, that the Boott MLll was 011 strike inTectlve." .Uttona are being torn down. aome obliges the faithful and that there seemed no possfbll (During the month tabor ~gan doors blocked up; wane knock-eel to accept on faith ity of a settlement becauae of the lzer• for the C10 were ttll'OWft out out and an sorts of strange· .allbee the dogmatic EASY ESSAYS determination of the heads of the / of three town1 In Pennaylvanla. toa blocks and aheeta of win latll and moral truths mill. Mrs. Schnelder, preparing caae1 ln. are being put up. As we go up and that · Christ its founder by PETER MAURIN H1rahey, Pa., for the Regional La down. stall'B. the banisters are be has transmitted to her. Help bor Board, wa1 put out of ttle town ing talreft down and steel ratllnga J . Outside of this field, I.n the morning, we visited aev owned by Mr. Hel'lhey who refvaea put up. The air la filled witll the she allows the faithful el'al places 11.nd decided upon the to recognlza the union and haa, by dust of plaiter ancl old wood u.• a just and wise liberty. City Hall Avenue hall. Twenty bulldlng up one of thoae famou• the women go about with tllelr I . A Tery old saying dollars a month. Mlss Margaret Acairue ci.... Loyal Citizens Committees, con beads covered to protect the111. exactly ·expresses Ryan, a close friend of Mrs. vinced many of the workers that from the dirt. The din, which be this double attitu4e Sullivan, gave us $2.00 and we had W'ar they wel'e bringing on a revolution gins at eight ta terrtflc. The entire of the Church. 1 started. The n~ ctay, we informed by contlnufng to belong to a uniOft. backJard u ~Ued with aandpllM 4. The saying is: more of the Catholic Worker· t No Recourse The editor and the farm manager and heaps of refuse. There LI ontr "Unity in things essential CZ'owd there of our actions and 1. Polltlclans uaed to say: of the Cathollc Worker went to a footpath through. The famllfea ta liberty in things doubtful, moblllied them for action. Then "We make prosperity Hershey during the mot1th and the front . house go a.bout thelt' charity in all things." Father Bolduc sent us $5.00. An an through our wise policies." talked to the organizer, to Mra. business of eating, sleeping, cleall nouncement was placed in t~e pa- %. Businessmen used to say: Schneider, and to several of the lng, and so do we. It looks as II. An Explanation pera telling the aims of the moTe-' "We make )lrosperlty w~ricera and• to Fr. Monalgnor though the hoase were being bom· L Tllese words meau ment and informing tile strikers or throUbl& our prliate P.1rl(1 of St. Joan of Aro Church barded. and sounds lfll:e lt to<>. It that the Church the opening ot · the kitchen. In enterprise." there. One of the wor1Ull'9 had left ts hard to think. requires assent the morning, about two hundred 3. The workers had nothing to do the Church and had not attended The dining room and ldtchea are and obedience men came in and we had about about the matter. MaH since the atf'lke because the being enlarged, and· the .aoper for an truths ten sandwiches ready and two bot· I . They were either put to work priest attacked the union and John 8oora m.acle into donnltorie1 ao which she proclaima tl011, Of milk. ·or thrown out of employment. L. Lewie In hla eermona, and an there will no longer be four roGlllll to be Tevealed, 5 Anti whe11 unemployment came other wor'ker hae left ttle union on a floor. There wm be leu prty. for all precepts Talk about the miracle ot the • the workers bad no recourse ltecause of hl1 loyalty to Monalg. &CY than eTel'. It la either oae which she judges loaves and llahts. We weDt out against the profe111ed makel'a nor Par:lca. A comp11cated 91tua kl.ntl of J>Ql'erty or .anl>ther. necessary or useful and bought $8.00 worth of food ot prosperity, tlon. to salvation. and the men made sandwiches. politicians &read '-in• for all practical directlon1 Then eame a gas BtoTe, donated, and .busineBI men. Leather Workers So far we ha-ve been abt. to k"p which she gives also tables donated. (Ray Snllin.n Otte of the CW reade,,., attomey up the colree Une tu the front anti in view of religious will send you these names. About H. Business f s Bu&iness fot" the Natlona1 Leathef' Worker• 11&7 the coe>pera.U..-e whtcll dem&A4a or moral 1i:ood. eight of the men jumped right into 1. Be~ause everybod,. is selll.sh .-.aeoclatlon, wrote us of three or- cash, ol.· courae., beiug a true ce> %. When there is question the kitchen and did the cooking busln.essmen say ·ganlzers belng driven out of Elk- operatin. Last rear they borrowe4 of controversial doctrines and believe me yo11 should seen that business land, Pa., saying that •t 11 lmpo• J the money themaelve-s to keep u or attitudes (Continued on Page 3) {Continued on Page I) (Continued 01l P~e S> (Continaed on Page !, that can legitimately be eonsidered diverse!,. she leaves to each one freedom of choice. I. Finally NEW UNITY FOR SEAMEN she requires that in all things the laws of true charltr should be respected. Capable Leaders And Sound Set-Up Mark N.M.U. Convention
Ill. In Apostolic Times This isn't a newa be uphel~I: Rank and Ille repre&en· their crews han been Tepresented. 1. Through her long hlatorr story. It's a picture tation. leaden -who lead by Tirtue There are 250 ship aa.d Shore d.ele- . the Chul'ch has known tlmee ot the first eonstitu ot their qualities of teaderahip and gates there, witb. chairman Sol!leph Salaries particularly dangerous. Uonal conTentlon of not b1' po1rer which they hue Curran. the man wbo led the last ·' J. In tflose times, the National Mari uurped and moneys which ther two strikes on the Eu.t eoast. He Ant there 'ha~e without cea.siug time Union-an hia han atolen, unity amongst the fa also bead of the District Com· been ftghw ad tt1- to be herself, tol'ic occasion for workers-these are the aims of the mlttee here in tire Ea.at. CmTan ls .1enut-oa:s ol cOIU'.. . ahe llas been obliged the East Coaat:, Gulf. convention to be expressed in their 35 years old. went to public and · Fights •bout UY to have recourse and Great Lakes constitution. parochial school In Westtleld. New . salaries of o'lficlal1, to new means Joe Curran, Seamen of America. Jersey, h~s been going tosea slace whether ther to win the world Chairman RepresentatlTes of Learnlng he sixteen, hu worked la e-verr l'at Wllalen, shootd be forty llol- Iuasmucll as was to Chrlat. the tlshermen ot di'tisi .011 excei>t the Balti111ere Iara or aeTentr~ they ant wt)):Ji: I . In the beglnnipg Boston, Gloucester, Providence, i1tewwd's. He ii ' five or eTI!ll mooe. I she asked herself New Bedford and ·New York a-re iag towards un married, a Cathctlic, "On the west coast Brluea «etil it she should keep here, and Clf) organizers tell of the ity with the goes to Mass. and f15," the West Coast delegate att· the Jewish rites organizing being done among the w~t cout anti when tlie reporter ting nen t& ~ satd. "'Aoo -du.riltg in w'hich all the Apostles 30,00Q bargemen ot New York. AU tb.e cro. and the s.trlb Ile tut'Ded Jt an .ta .... new national of frolll Forto.ne mar· had been raised. those men who make their l~ving uille wu sllOmU b ••ti hit t.amil,- got nppliea
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Catholic; Radica' Lowell Story ACTU Classes Active Clergy (Continued jirom ~age l) F s k • '(Continued fl'om P~ge 1) - Alliance t,boee 1,100 meala goinr out in four 0 r pea ID g •Ible .to keep an organizer In the REV. CHARLES OWEN RICE daYll: Everyone cooperated and the d u .- L" town because he la In peril of hla aplrlt was aplendid, c.r.o. was a llt- an DIOD aw life. There i• • atrike there and 3221 lith Avenue tie dubious ot us at first because th& local police are going from Pittsburgh, Pa. the paper had said that w~ere house to houae, ordering the work- fightlng communism and they Starting this month the .ACTU era baok to their joba. The union Ae the result ot a favorable thought that we meant that their will sponsor weekly classes Jn Pub- can on.ly meet In a hen house in -write up in "Time" the Alllance organization was Communistic. lie Speaking and Parliamentary the outeklrts of the town. We refer has received letters from distant However, alter the strikers had Law especially designed for union thla reader to the Civil Liberties LETTER FROM ONE MEt.1BER parts o! the United States and Can gotten a.hold-of our papers and had members, as the result of action Bureau which haa just been opened OF PAX TO ANOTHER ada. The comments have been so received meals the first day, the taken at the July membership at the State Capitol at Harrisburg. We were all very glad to bea.f far au favorable, which sort o! C.I.O. leader, Dupre, came· to us meeting of the A'.ssoclation. Another one of the Catholic .from you, especially Miss Day, ancJ worries us. If" someone does not telling us of the goodwill we had In spite of record-breaking heat, Workers, living In Harrisburg, tells to keep In touch with your day-by. take a good husky belt at us soo:rl, spread among the workers. a. considerable · number of enthu- us of an organizer being set upon day life. Your letter has been re -we will be doubting very much if siasts turned out !or the general In Millel"stown, Pa., whel"e he had ferred to l'ne to answer and I liope ~ :we are on the right track after all. Speech ti d . gone to organize a shoe f~ctory, The men who had been al- .membership mee ng an a. 1i~e 1Y and beaten by fifty men aa h'e left that we may correspond on these An open letter in defense of the matters of common interest. It f1 Catholic Worker was sent to Fath most despairing had a. new spirit. session was held. Other meetmgs the plant where he went to pay a He asked us to speak to _the men took place among teamsters, long- courtesy visit oil the employer and good news that the Milwaukee er. 'Coughlin and printed in The PAX group Is flourishing all al-Ong. Pittsburgh Catholic. The local about our organization and told sh?~emen, seamen, relle~ wo~~ers, · show him his credentials.) . us that the whole bunch would join ubht! work~rs, transpor woi ers, · Meanwhile Summer Schools of It ls on small cells of tbose wbose da11ies carried in fulJ statements moral consciences are actuallT from priest members of the Alli the Catholic Worker ( ?). A little and JOurnahsts. . • Social Action for Clergy are being nervous, we gave the speech the Ed Scully, labor lawyer, will con- held all over the United States and functioning on_ev~ryday problems, ance defending the CIO and the 'that any basis of freedom today Wagner Act from clarges made by following morn1ng. We merely told duct the ~lasses In Public Speaking Ipriests are being Instructed therein them that we were there to see and Parhamentary La"':, one of as to the labor situation, and many rests. .And since this implie• two Pittsburgh clerics. both responsibil!ty and a respeet Rt. Rev. George Barry O'Toole, that no one leacked food and that which wlll start Immediately and of them are going from the schools for personality, It was almost in· _ . Ph.D., is publishipg an .edition o! the men should get a- fair deal. VI jFft.:i:'\ ~""rA. 'to take. action in local siti_iatioi;is. evitable that P .AX should be bis· new pamphlet, "Christian We pledged ourselves to explain , TV , .. I~ Archbishop McNicholas m Cm- launched In this country by the Wheat and Marxian Cockle," under condit!ons in the mill to the pubUc ...- - cinnati named a committee of nine- c.w. the name of the Catholic Radical if arbitration failed. Then came fiF teen · priests • last month to help Conscientious Objection Alliance. An edition in the mid Peter's speech on Sunday. night. Zl laboring groups in Industrial dis- The reasons · for conscientiously West is being brought out by He made a great Impression on the other in September. classes putes, with Fr. Edward A. Frekin~ objecting against modern warfare Archbishop Stritch's Catbolic Ac many, but of course, there were are open to the '4)Ublic, information as chairman of the committee. ' seem absolutely cogent, and as you tion grouJ:>. Bot)l editions have "im- some who found it over ' their available at ACTU headquarters, In a published letter to the mem say, the J~e PAX column sums ' J)rimaturs" from the respective au heads. In the morning the Bosfon 115 Mott Street CAna.l 6-91i'95. AC bers, the Archbishop stated that these . up quite - well, and being thorities. group liad sent Catherine Ahearn, TU membe~s a~d CW readers are they are to be ready "whenever based · foursquare on ethical judg- - Dr.- O'Toole's pamphlet is a schol Harold Bridges and Clare McGrath reminded that classes are currently there is a. violation of justice, If ments, they escape the changing arly treatment of the problem. It up to sell papers, or to be more ex.- being held at 115 Mott Street on given the opportunity, to defend winds of emotion and utillty. The is the product of an intensive act, they had come up of their own Tuesday nights on tlie Labor Ency- the ~aboring and poor man." Their attitude of theologians towards ._, study back into' the antecedent. of free wilt Paper selling wasn't so clicals discussion led by John Cort. services are offered to all groups, the morality of war changes with Marx. successful. · ' without regard to creed, color or changing conditions, since in the!le The Heinz labor controversy Number• Unimportant race. ethical matters the morality ot war which was the first one the .Alli- unions in fish and meats are be- Speaker at the July meeting was Al"chblshqp McNlc.holaa depends upon whether changing . ance interested itselr in actively Ing afforded whatever help they Dorothy Day, CW Editor, who em In part, he said, "A great struggle . eoncrete technique does or does has been settled ~ro Tern. The set request. · phasized the need for .ACTU mem- is going on today In our ·country. not fufill general and immutable tlement of this is tar from satisfac Rev. Carl P. Hensler delivered a bers to educate themselves in the It seems next to ilDl>O.SSlble to requirements. In this respect our ' tory. Abuses in the way of speed radio talk entitled the "Living ,l11bor movement, both here· and in change the outlook on 'life of in- age is found wanting. As Fr. Vann, . - up and piece-work a.re untouched. Charity of Christ" over station Europe, and pointed out the unim dustriallste and capitalists who the Dominican who was one o! the ., An Alliance member attended the KDKA Monday, June 19, the 200th portance o! iarge numbers as com ve believed In economic elav- concelvers ot PAX and Is a _persis conferences between Jabor and anniversary of the · Canonization ~a,red with the spiritual power of ery." · • • "It ·le most important tent publicist, says: "War has be management. of St. Vincent de PauL Rev. a 'few Individuals vitalized by up that labor get a fair hearing so as come riot a conflict or army vs. The Loose Wiles Bakery strike Tl!omas Lappan, St. Vincent de to-date, 1Jractical, and practiced to put an end to economic slavery; army, but the reciprocal attack of fn which the Alllance was active Paul director, answere·d questions Christianity. also that labor organizations be people on people: its object is not -was settled very satisfactorily with designed to give the true aspect of · Plans are un.der way for · the everywhere tormed and that men to win a battle but to exterminate wage raises and important conces- Catholic Charity. At Seton Hill O.Pening in the near futui:e of· a CW who toil should be guided by In- a. people or at least to destroy their 11ions abolishing pie,:e-work after College ·the St. Vincent de Paul .an'd .ACTU headquart s op tbe formed, honest and sane leaders h 1 a.re disinterestedly working ec omlc life..•• Defence, lfs sue , a certain time. The St. .Vincent de Society the following Sunday had 'Westside waterfront for seamen Who ha ceased to exist: th1! only de Paul aiqed the strikers by provid a celebration of the anniversary." 'longshoremen, checkers, and fe ·am~ for the common good of laborlng fence, in Mr. Baldwin's words 'ls ing foqd orders durir~ the six Rev. Charles Owen Rice collabo- s~rs. A waterfront paper covering groups Jn their respective local!- offence, . which means that Y.OU week layoff. An .Alliance member rated wit~ C'IO officials in making. 'news of all these groups, 'wm 'come ties." have to kill women and children attended some of the conferences. an electrical recording to be used .oVt about the same time . - One o! the first jobs of Fr. Frek- more quickly than the enemy can The .Alliance Is at present inter over various radio stations t o ex- 1 ~ • , Ing was to appear in Common kill your women and children.'" ested in furthering organizing plain that the stock charges Pleas Court of Cincinnati as a wlt- All of which makes war oday mor drives by CIO unions among the against that body were unfoundel!i. ness for the strikers of the Prin- ally indefensible. c.w. applies tt.I• ' Lay members of the· Al'llance cess Garment Company. The Inter- J>ublic utllltles, buildings, and de ACTU Makes Rome national Ladies' Garment Workers' rigol"ously to the Spanish War. · J)artment store workers . .in Pitts have been doing yeoman ·service Natural Foundations. burgh. It is also interested in or in the matter of spreading Catho Way of Buffalo Union was in court to get" dlssolu- To propagate this ruling of con- ganizing drives in various small lic literature to the general public. :By tlon of an order restraining them science and to pledge CO ·is the manufacturing plants. - An AFL The distribution problem has not I 1 . J from 11lacing more than sl.x pickets proximate aim of PAX. This end eemetery union has requested al yet been fully wor.ked out. • The foilowi11g a117Jea.red. m the at the plant. . · • ls not left in isolation, but is an lJance mediation and .AFL retail July 17 issue of L'Osservp.tore Msgr. Smith MARIE CONNOLLY. Ro a e ·off' ·az I p A few days ago The Dally Work- Integral part of the sh'iving to- ni no, s m1- ici organ o ope wards a new and more equitable Pius XT, published in Vatican OitJJ, er, Communist organ, carried a social order. The fundamental .· . Rome. ' . story about Monsignor Smith of principles of p AX rise deep from Rev1· ew Headline: " Fol" the Ap,plication Cleveland, Ohio, who pledged $26 the wellspring o! Christian tpought, ;_ of the Social Encyclicals." a week for the- su.Pport of the steel t Stl'l.kers and who visited them at its expression in the con ernpor- i ' Article: "The Buffalo Echo" re- id! and ·n the fac1·ng new Pam.. phl .et their union hall, encouraging them ary om 1 'ports that the proposal made by i -problems and situations. Cbris- . . t.he Encyclicals, "Quadragesimo in their e.!fort for union recogn - Uan anthrq~logy being Catholic, By Stanl~y Vishnewski sib!hty l!l determlnmg a~ to. wheta- Anno" and "Rerum Novuum" has tion. He stated that whether the has allowed Jio human element to er _or not your laundi:Y. 1s done by. recently been put Into pract'ice In union were a CIO or an AF of L . d Tbe pamphlet has been called 'on be would do everythi·n' g ·n be neglected or 0"1'eremphas1ze : U mon l_a b or or SI ave, may mean Amer·1ca w'1th the formation of new uru 1 C h " 'th t b · ' · and rightly so "the Workingman's th 0 f t t his power to plead the cause o! the hurc possesses w1 ou erng Library.". Economical' both of time e savmg some poor un •Or un- associations of "Catholic Tl"ade labor. possessed"; just here we are inter- ate from mortal sin. Unionists" '1 n the vlcin'1ty of New t d · th t hi th rela and money, pamphlets readily lend Elsewhere In this issue is an ac- es e m e eac ng on e - ' · themselves to workers' education. • Slum Clearance • York. count of the activities of the tlons between the state and con- ... Easily read and digested, the pam ' · · ' ' • Educate and Ol"ganize science. · ; , .1. JJhlet, with no great loss, ~an be New ' York S~um Clearance And "These associations are com- priests in Pittsburgh who are lead- Person And Common Good 1.'he ' Law, by Williani ' Karlin; posed of Catholic workel"a and em- ing the Catholic Radical Alliance. The ground-principle Is to obey left in some public place for others published 'lly the Academy. of. Po- . Throughout the United States to .read, realizing the n.eed! of edu litical Science. . . ployees. The l'leadquarters 1s at ot~r priests are taking part In and respect all manifestations of.; ! <:atlon for · persons who have not Factual, but nevertheleas inter- -~he Cat~ollc Worker in New York. th fight for the rights o the God's will: for in this is our per- .. the time or money tci read cloth Meanwhile other groups of Catho- ek fection. Just as Christ true man,, :.,,. esting to one who bas kno.wn shim lie· k • . wor er. b d d ell ls t G " bound ·books. We shall from time life. Mr. Karlin traces for us a wor ere are organ 1zin _g new O r good friend Father Bo and 0 Y an sou•1 as w as rue ou, to time . print lists of pamphlets brief sketch of the progressl.ve leg" ~r!nches. . . Is o~e of the co~mlttee ' of thre~ so also we find In man a composi t~ ; · -which we hope will be of invalu lslatlon u.nderlying the recent de, ,Th~ purpose of the ~ssoc .•!tt•on appointed to administrate the Lit- of matter and spirit. And it is thi.s· · ' able aid to .those -woo are striving velopm,ents Jn . slum :clearance. . '! to educate. and organize the ac- tle Wagner Act. We haven't seen union of two orders of being that· .1.I to better conditions for their fellow Slum clearance unfortunately · 111 tion of ~at,hoilc WOl"ker.s on • Chris- him yet, though hls office is In produces the tension in our !if~ i I • -men. always taken under way by some tla" baa1s. Th~ following ~ords of N.Y.C. He's busy trying to settle and the necessity of. distinctions "bi i ,, h h ti Plus XI, gloriously reigning ,are b d'.!f· It' . b' h t when talking· about it. Insofar as ' '. Laundry Workers g-w g, w 0 as no concep on the -motto of the Association: 'The 1a Oil 1 icu ies m is ome own, man i composed of matter. be is•• · of the su ering that the poor un- Bu.!falo Consider the Launary Wor.kers, bl/ dergo, when forced to move with- apostles o'f the worker• must · individual, incomplete, and hence Jane Filley atid Therese Mitchell; out suitable habitation prepared to themselves be workers.' " to that degree subordinate to a •· i . published by the League of Wo- receive them. EAT more comprehensive whole, wbe~e: j. 1nen. Shoppers; Inc., 220 Fifth I am not talking througll my hat CHICAGO RETH in hJl finds his perfection as an m- ·• Ave. Price lOc. for man·y a person who was to have lishea by B. o. ana W. Lonaon. dividual. This l's the ra-dical basis ~ne of niy finit jobs after, gradu- benefited by slum clearance has Price 1· Shilling. • of the necessity of the state, ' 9( . ' ' - ~ting was working for a laundry. told me· and this Is a bfief con- The addresses in this book were The Chicago Catholic Worker · the economic and social ord~rl!, , , From morning till nlgbt I woul!1 sensus 0f. many conv~rslttions : Al! given in church as a. sort of ex- will have Its first one-day re- and since this Is natul"al, it is God's lug heavy b'Ulldles up filghts of . were agreed that slums should go; perimental venture by the author. tl"eat for workers on Saturday, -wlil, for nature is but the created · : sla1rs for the munifll::ent sum of but the only reason that' they l!ved Wh!le containing nothing new, the September 4th. The retreat- participation and rell.ectioR ol the five dollar.a yer week. In;be-tweens in slums . was that -they. could not book has an unusual value in tbe ants (and we hope you will be divine law. Man, though, is not l helped weJgh bundles, .where my afford to pay higher rent. And as fact that Fr. Drinkwater courare- among them) will meet at head- mere body but also and primarily utter dumbness of business· tech- a general rule the new apartment ously applies social teachings to quarters, 1841 West Taylor a spiritual soul, and hence is an in- . nique caused me to leave. It seems put up In place of the slum dwell- specific instances. Street, at 7:45 A.M. Mass and dividual pel"Son. In the scale of my school "marm:• forg?t to teach ing, though In the low rent price More factual than theotetical; Spiritual Conferences wlll be being spirit i& above matter as ap- me the art of addmg weight by the field, 18 still prohibitive in price, this book should be of interest held at a nearby Church. Be- proaching the Godhead, and so the 11se of thumb. leaving them ln a worse state than to seminarians' who contemplate tween the conferences with the social whole Is in turn subordinat- This booklet bears out my own before · preaching on social topics from retreat-master roundtable discus- ed to the well being of .Persons: experiences that working condi- We ~re adamant that slums must the pulpit. Those of us who feel sions on labor topics will be led the end of the just !!late, the, com- tions In laundries are notorious; go: but we ue more than adamant lost when it comes to practical so- by Father John H. Hayes at the mol'l good, ls for the more com· long hours, little pay; clean sheets, thi:.t the poor should not be made ciology · (not hair-brained theory) C.W. headquarters. There will plete development of the indi\'ldul!-1 unsanitary working · conditions. the pawns. would do very _well to study this be no fees. Breakfast and lunch person. Hence .the delicat_e balance Jn the hands of the consumers book. will be served, If you. are com- which must ,be ,prnserved, wbicb la lays tlle ' power as to whether or Social Justice , RecoP\mended to f)Ur Comm.1wfst ing, dro'J> a cal"d to' the' Taylor so 'ofteq dlstui;bed . .'.rhese are the 1 JJot these condltidns will' be retn- Seven .4.ddr63se3 01' Social Justiee, and ;At)lelst readerfJ as well ~ an, ; : ftreet add re&.. c. 1 'natural !Qundations of a commubi; ecied, You.r own per,i;onal respon- . by Rev. F. H , Drinkwater,· pub- Sqcial Justice tanatfcs. • . t ti;{rlan 'i:"ersonalii!t '1al orde • 1 1 Page Four - TH E C AT H 0 L I 0 w·0 ll ~ B I. THE LAN.D There ls No Unemployment on -the Land Cardinal Verdier - AGAINST CLASS WAR (Continued from Page 1) Cll.rlstlan laity (Continued from Page 1) is asked to participate "" FARMING must be baaed ln the apostolate on selfishness. of the Hierarchy. t. But when business We call that 1 ts based ou selflshnesa ·catholic Action. everybody iB busy That Is the beginning of a new era COMMVNE becoming more selfish. / I. And when everybody is busy for the Church. During July we had many visi· which was given to us, has de becoming more selfish Priests. religious and lay people tors from all parts of the country. cided that her diet isn't complete · we have classes 1. Georges Sorel thot:ght must set themselves The visits ranr;ed from a few hours without beet g!'eens. We like beet which are not that violence to work in a movemeut to a week or so. It would be some gl'eens ·too, but Molly has a lal'ge functional classes is the mid·wife that is so promislni:-. task to try to remember the name appetite and, after several trips but a cquisitive classes. of existing societies. vf each oue but we feel sure some over the fence, she has managed tQ f . And when classes 2. When the employers V. Double Mission •' ne will r emember those we might clean them out. These trips have are acquisitive believe ln violence 1. At all times, forget. Father Joseph Woods, O.S. been made in the early morning Sil and not functional the workers also the Church has had B., was with s for a week and that John Fllliger has lost sleep we have clashes. believe in it. the double mlssion said Mass each day at our Parish as well as beet greens just on ac 3. Class-consciousness of conserving the flock Church, St. Bernards, in Easton. count of Molly. Ill. The Trouble Has Been among employers and' increasing it Father Paul Milde, O.S.B., of Bene Hilaire Belloc says: Jly way of conquest. lndlapenaable brings class-consciousness dlctln!l College, Savannah, Georgia, Those who have read the Farm· 1. The modern proletarian among the workers. 2. In modern times was anoher priest who vi$ited us. works less hours this double mission Ing Commune column . for any To do away Besides being a friend of "The length or time must wonder what and does far less with class-struggle is more than e~r Catholic Worker," Father Paul is than his father. imposed on her. the rest of us do. John Filliger we must fl.rat of all a perllonal friend of ours. Before and his wor~ have been mentioned I. He is not even 3. She realizes with sorrow "The Catholic Worker" started primarlly in reTolt do away that in a general way so much durmg the past year that with class-consciousness Father Paul instructed us in Ger· it would seem that no one else against Insecurity. among employers. . the notion of authority man during school hours and how The trouble has been vanishes from day to day. does anything. John has, by ex J. 5. The workers are to get that necessal'T extra hit on ample and instruction, taught .. that the maasea what the employers The loyalty ' the baseball field. Tempµs sure ot. our towns t o establiahed powera everyone who has be~ the least · make them. does, tugit. bit receptive many. things about lived under 6. When employers practicer' so nobly ualteara ble conditions; by the first Chriatlana Flowers farming. When. Saint Joseph sent are moTed by greed I John to fill a very Important posi· 6. The contracts the workers are inclined In times of peraecutlone As usually the case, the one they were asked t-0 fultlll becomes just a word tion, we appreciated the favor ·from to carry a grudge. most interested In the farm and the very beginning. were not contracts In modern times. beat able to help in most of the that were suitable S. With a love full of sadneBS Saturday, July 17th, saw most VI. Paul Chanson Says: work cannot spend much time with of us from th'e farm in Sterling to the dignity of man. the Church us because of other duties. Mar S. There was no personal relation L Whether we like it or not ees the working masses for the one-day retreat. There at the economic system 'garet Bigham can only spend week St. Joseph's shrine we thanked St. between the man escaping her motherly ~u ends with us and not many of who was exploited 111 necesaarlly related ence. Joseph for the many favors 'ln the to the regime of appropriation those. In a couple of those week past and asked for many more. and the man S. She would like ends Margaret planned and plant who exploited him. of the tools of production. to bring them back to Christ Every Sunday, we have a truck· Z. If Bourgeola Capitalism ed our beautiful flower garden. load to each of the three Masses. 6. Wealth had lost. for their own sake. Fate has been urrklnd to Miss Big Its sense of responsibility. approprlatea the ownership We don't realize the size of the the worker becomes a serf. ham because it has not allowed her crowd we have at both places until IV. Twin Cities 3. U Bolshevik Socialism to see the results of her hard work. Sunday comes areund. The rented 1. In Salnt Paul, monopolizes the ownership Speaking of the flower garden, farm Is an absot\ite necessity witll tnere are few strikers the worker's condition John Grl.1lln left something for us the number we have had all sum· and few Reds. la not better. to remember him by. On the right ruer long. The barns down on the 2. In Minneapolis 4. He is reduced band side of the garden are a num other farm ar~n·t water proof but there are plenty of strikes to a state of slavery. ber of beautiful hollyhocks which tlley have been used contfnuo11sly, and plenty or Reds. 5. Only a Guildist John put in last year. .As holly novertheless. 3. Io Saint Paul and Communitarian. Economy hocks are perennials, we will be Last week we went up to Mary. the employel'8 will bring about reminded of John's splendid work knoll where we were glven bee try to play falr the worker's emancipation.. for man~ years to come. equipment which would cost us at with the workers ti. Paul Chanson Early in the morning there are least fifty dollars if we ever had and the workers who says those things several sbange noiBes coming from hopes of buying any. Sister Mary with the employers. ls not a labor leader. VI. She Asks Her Chil dren the chicken coop. Reports from Eustace was the kind giver, and 4. In Minneapolis 7. He la the President 1. To this end Hugh Boyle, vigilant keeper of the the illformation we receiTed from the employers ' of the Employers' Association she has very coor~geously tow!, Indicate there are several her also could not be priced. choose to be of the Port of Caiafa (France) In these later times young roosters trying out their vo Bill Evans now has help on his given a particular emphasts cal chords. well project. We have been using • on her traditional Jim the water for some time but Bill social doctrine. Jim, the horse {our nallle is has wanted to make It deeper s<> 2. In doing so we would get more water. He had she has legitimated James), gave many of us a bit or Wha t Is o Neutral Union ? exerciBe last week. When friend dug down to about eighteen feet many grievances single handed but could go no fur- · of the working masses. Jim threw It in high we started to Three thousand copies of a leaf knowledge, based on a thorough figure just how much money there thre. Now he has Cyril Echele of let defending the TranapQJ't Work· investigation or the Transport 3. On the other hand St. Louis and Joe Zarella ot the she watches with great care is in the Kentucky Derby. John era' Union and signed by The Ca Workers' Unlon, its leaders and Fllliger, as always, did what none Catholic Worktr helping, Bill says its members, there is no sound rea the sacred deposit the next stop will be China. We thollo Worker and the ACTU were of her dogma, of the rest of us could do. After run olr and distributed to employ son to believe that Catholics can corralling Jim In a nearby ceme wonder what part of China. Maybe not belong to It. her morality, we could help the Marylmoll ees of the BMT, who voted Satur her traditions. tery, John walked up to him and day on what unlon should repre On the contrary, we urge Catho le;i him home. A good Um ewas ·Priests and sisters when Evans 4. She asks an her children cc:impletes his project. sent tbem in collective bargaining. lics not only to belong t-0 It. but to do all they can had by all. to live thelr Catholicism by being to apply those riches Molly, the purebred Holstef-n, JAMES F. MONTAGUE. There ls the usual contention actlTe in it, opposing Communist that the TWU ls a Communist to the new condltiGns. lnfl.uence by outdoing the Commun 5. She reminds them unlon and Catholics should there ists in self-sacrifice for their fel· or repair their faults. fore have notb.lng to do with it. of the words of the Gospel: br In place of the Hierarchy. lowmen, and thereby proving to "The man of God I. With the same energy 2. Those observations or crltfcl11m1 Our leaflet pointed out that al all transport workera, Catholic she forbids though there ar.e doubtless Com draws from his treasura must avoid partisanship and non-Catholic, that Catholicism new riches her other children and must always munists among the leaders of the stands not only for a reminder 'or to systematically unlon, that Lii no lntUcaUon that it s well as old." respect the truth tnelr obligations, but also for a erect themselv~s and be motivated is a Communist union. employing mlllta.o.t defense of those basic as censors ot their brothers Communist tactics and· seeking VII. Human Weaknesses by Christian charity. nght11 without which men . are not 1. Trying to carry out a nd w.hat Is worse Communist ends. men, but slaves. 3. When referring this work o! adaptatioll to condemn t hem to particular cases, "By Their fruit.-" la the task In name and place of the Hierarchy. they must especially avoiEI of all generous souls. those generalizations On fbe contrary, the tactics used From St. Alphcmaua ae Liguori; ! . by the TWO and the results ob· That this task which are generally tained by It to date ·show that il "War brings auch e·vils with tt is particularly delicate, pc. It Is Allowed plain calumny. everyone will admit. 1. It ls certainly allowed f. In polemics J s probably the most honest. Amer avch har• to religion anti the Cn· ! . ican. and Christian union in the Imprudent Initiatives. in the domain it Is very easy Held. nocent - that tn pracUoe U Ca regrettable compromleee, of free opinions to commit injustices. .According to the Holy Father, speech or writing ' and of attftude11 harctly ever jttaUfia~le . " In whteh left to the free will Plus XI, ln hls encyclical. "Quad· XI. What to Avoid rageaimo Anno," a neutral trade the traditional teaching of everyone union eligible for Catholic mem of the Church to make observations 1. The faithful bership ls one that "respects jua· FOR CHILDREN la sometimes formulate reservations must al ya lice and equity, and leaTe11 to Its Ignored or denatured, even criticise. in their speech and writings Catholic members full freedom to all of these things ~. Progress comes partly draw tlfelr fnepfratlon follow the dictates of their con . ''THE SAINT FRANCIS are human weaknesses, out of this freedom. from these clear teachings science and to obey the precepts PICTURE BOOK" and they are S. But to be legitimate and these wise directions of the Church." particularly dangerous these observations of our Mother the Church. If it had been proven with facts, In this new field. or criticisms I. They will also figures, and affidavits, that the must fullfll avoid these divisions Transport Workers' Union did not ADE BETHUNE VIII. Up to the Hierarchy several conditions. who afflict their Mother. an wer t hese qualifl.catlons, then Catholi• Worker Stan Artist 1. The Church knows it compromise the good n me and that Is why X. Required Conditions or Catholicism we should have had no choice but 32 Pagas - Price 75 Cents to condemn. · she asks the Hierarchy 1. They must keep and weaken to watch these storm troops a persopal c),,1aracter this moral Cry Out Loudly SHEED and WARD, Jnc. and without discouraging them and never be made and religious effort which alone · As ic i . we c n only cry out 63 Fifth Ave. Hew Vork City help t hem above all by laymen udly th t to the best of our . '------to avoid their mittakes in the name of the Church can save the Cduntry.