CATHOLIC WORKER

Vol. IV. No. 7 NOVEMBER, 1936 /; Price One Cent Globe Strikers' Mormons Relieve Seamen Strike in Cause Is Right, Brothers Without Face of Corrupt Strike Is Wrong State Assistance Union Leadership· Good Example of Unjust Teach Catholics Lesson New Sit-Down Technique Action by Union and Personalist Way to Used; Hiring Halls Employer • Help Poor Main Issue Dressed as CJ:iinese coolies, a line - Mormons are personalists! Mor­ From Maine to Corpus Christi, of pickets paraded one day last mons have taken the lead from from Grey's Harbor to San Diego, month in front of Globe Mail Serv­ Catholics in caring for their needy. from coast to coast seamen are ice, Inc., at 148 W. 23rd Street, New The Church of the Latter Day striking, registering their common York, in a strike typical of so many Saints has met the crisis in a man­ brotherhood, expressing their dis­ similar cases where the cause is ner which· ought to shame our so­ satisfaction with a system that re• right, but the strike is wrong. called Catholic charitable organiza­ fuses to recognize their digpity as Our first contact was with the tions. · men, as sons of God. strikers, who said that 105 men and Of the 117 "stakes,'' local admin­ We will not repeat details of the women, a majority of the staff, had istrative units, stretching from Alas­ strike, which is spreading so rapidly; walked out on September 29 under ka to Mexico, 112 are participating they have been ably -reported in the the banner of the Bookkeepers', in the "Church Security Plan." daily press. It is our intention Stenographers' and Accountants' Eighty-seven of these "stakes" have rather to express our sympathy with Union, affiliated with the A. F. of L. reported that they will be able to the striking rank and file member­ They were striking against "in­ care for every needy family i.Ii their ship of both coasts. credibly low wages, the average membership. To that end we repeat the basic being about $8.50 to $9 for a 44-hour The work was begun last April, needs of the seamen. They are: week," interference with the rigfil and now 400,000 items of canned 1. Tl:)e right to establish and main· to organize, unlimited and compul­ foods, 82,308 pounds of fiour, 11,860 tain union hiring halls. sory overtime, an unfair "bonus" pounds of meat, 27,193 articles of 2. Just overtime rates to be paid system, the discharge of three em­ ~~ ~"' • clothing are ready for Mormon in cash at end of voyage. ployes for union activity, refusal to needy. 3. An eight-hour day, four hour.s bargain collectively with a union SAINT FRANCIS Put to Work on and four off, for the stewards"' chosen by a majority of the firm's department. employes, bad ventilation and dirty In every stake unemployed men and women were set to work sewing, 4. Preferential hiring for licensed lavatories. sweeps a church deck and engine men. Investigation farming, canning, repairing shoes and clothing, collecting furniture Bad Reasoning After two interviews with the and gifts from church members and The unioii. hall issue, if, won, will union, two with Charles E. White­ non-members. • house, Jr., Globe president, and one place the labor market more securely All work was voluntary. No money in the hands of tAe seamen them­ with John D. Moore, director of the EASY ESSAYS was paid. To each man and woman Regional Labor Relations Board and selVes. In effect, it will bring closed a work certificate was given. When conditions into th.e shipping business. official mediator in the case, we by a worker needs anything he presents rooted out the following facts: And the closed shop makes for the his certificate to the Bishop of his only effective type of union. The mail service business is tradi­ PETER MAURIN ward and he _is given what he and tionally low-wage, and Globe em­ We do not agree with shipping his family need. officials that the payment of over­ ployes are among the worst paid of The certificates are not valuated There is a notebook in my purse a badly paid lot. In 1931, at the in which during the course of the time to the men will result iu a poor in dollars or cents. Their value de­ quality of work. We would like to depth of the depression, Mr. White­ pends upon the size of the family. month I jot down quotations from house gave a dinner for his workers, THE PLURALIST STATE . books I am reading, prayers for spe­ know by what process of reasoning Single men doing the same amount they figured that out. during which he persuaded them to of work receive only what they re­ cial occasions, reminder:; of things buy $35,000 worth of bonds, to be I. SECULARISM IS A PEST to be done, and ruminations in gen­ Stewards, and messboys in particu­ paid for week by week out of the quire as bachelors. lar, work twelve hours a day and 1. "What ails modern society No Red Tape eral. Father Gratry said that it was pay envelopes. is the separation a good idea to write down one's seven days a week. And after night lunches have been made and cleaned From the beginning of January, of ~e- spiritual So far there have been no over­ meditations, so though mine some­ 1936, according to Mr. Whitehouse, from the material,'' head expenses incurred in adminis­ times are begun on a crowded street up after, you can make it 14 hours every cent"<>f extra sales had gone says Glenn Frank. trating the projects. This winter, corner and continued in the sub­ per day. They work until the work back into increased wages. This had however, a general manager and is done. 2. That separation way, I jot some of them down after- been done, however, by means of a small clerical staff will be necessary ward as I have time. · Rank and File complicated, highly competitive of the spiritual to handle distribution. :ft-om the material On the Waterfront Preferential hiring for licensed "bonus" system, whereby the good Naturally the basic project has As I waited for the traffic light men is only just and insures a well• workers did get more money, but is what we call been farming. And land was do­ secularism. to change on my way to the Sea­ trained personnel Men who have had the poor workers less, making for a nated, 2296 acres of it, free of charge, men's Defense Committee headquar­ the initiative and perseverance to general feeling of insecurity and dis­ 3. "Secularism is a pest,'' says Pope Pius XI. for raising grain, fodder, fruit, vege­ ters, I was idly saying my rosary, obtain a licensed rating are entitled satisfaction. tables. This food, raised and tended 4. Education without religion which was handy in my pocket. The to preferential treatment. Secret Organization by the men, was canned immediately recitation was more or less auto­ We wish to emphasize the fact that The average 44-hour weekly wage is only information. 5. Politics without religion when ripe by the women. matic, when suddenly like a bright on the East coast this is a rank and for · the whole shop was $16.56, and The security plan also undertook is only factionalism. light, like a joyful thought, the (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 3) 6. Business without religion (Continued on page 5) words Our Father pierced my heart. is only commercialism To all those who were about me, to 7. Religion is good all the passersby, to the longshoremen STEEL EMPLOYS ARMED Thomas on Violence idling about the corner, black and FASCISM REVEALED IN for weekdays St. as well as Sunda.ys. white, to the striking seamen· I was THUGS AGAINST CJ.O. going to see, I was akin, for we were n. LmERALS NOT LIBERATORS "Sum~ _TheciloJlca," Question 41, GERMAN PERSECUTION Article L all ch.ildren of a common Father, all 1. The present would be different creatures of one Creator, and Cath­ ·courts Take No Action if they had made the past differ­ Conflict with On Strite olic or Protestant, Jew or Christian, Church's ent. "It is a mortal sin for a man to at­ Communist or non-Communist, were t~ Stop Rampan·t 2. The future will be different tack another unjustly, for it is not bound together by this tie. We can Nazis Prov~• Basic if we make the present different. not escape the recognition of the Anarchy 3. But to make the present different without mortal sin that one infiicts Incompatibility harm on another, even if the deed be fact that we are all brothers. Wheth­ one must give up old habits er or not a man believes in Jesus Organized violence, winked at by and start to contract done by the hands. "But in him who defends himself, Christ, His Incarnation, His Life here the authorities, is being employ.eel Catholics who look at Spain and new habits. with us, His crucifixion and resur­ by steel barons to check the unioni• think "Fascism is a good thing be­ 4. But to give up old habits it may be without sin, or it may sometimes involve a venial sin, or rection; whether or not a man be­ zation drive of John L. Lewis' C.I.O .. cause i::panish Fascists are fighting and. start to contract lieves in God ,the fact remains that according -to charges made by Lee for the thurch against Communist new habits, sometimes a mortal sin; and this de­ pends on his intention and on his we are · all the children of - one Pressman, counsel for the Steel persecution" should take another (Continued on page 6) Father. Workers' Organizing Committee, look at recent events in Germany to manner of defending himself. "For if his sole intention be to (Continued on page 6) against Ernest T. Weir, chairman of see just how much love the Cath­ the National Steel Company. olic Church can expect from a Fas• withstand the injury done to him, cist government, once it is in power. Negroes Lose Jobs When and he defend himself with due Pressman produced convincing evi• Hitler and his Nazis are not con­ moderation, it is no sin, and one Communist or Not, Browder dence to prove that Weir's company tent with suppressing Catholic or­ cannot say properly that there is had employed armed th•1gs, of the ganizatiods, Catholic education, and Union Bars Membership strife on his part. But if, on the Has Right to Be Heard type supplied by the best strike­ the Catholic press. They are sys­ other hand, his self-defense be in­ breaking agencies, to set upon C.I.O. organizers, beat them up and at­ tematically attempting to set up an The meaning of the words "inter­ spired by vengeance and hatred, it Thil open violation of the right of national" and "brotherhood" has is always a sin. tempt to run them out of town. exclusive religion of the German free speech in the treatment of Earl State, "purged of all un-German apd evidently been forgotten by the In:­ "It is a venial sin, if a slight move­ No Action .Asiatic ingredients." ternational Brotherhood of Electrical ment of hatred or vengeance ob­ Browder, Communist candidate for On six different occasions ·in This State-Worship identifies the Workers, Local No. 3 of New York trudes itself, or if he does not much President, during the past campaign, Steubenville, Ohio, and Weirton, German people with the Supreme City. exceed moderation; but it is a mortal and the failure of state and federal West Virginia, charges were brought BeinJ and casts a religious aurora Twenty-five Negro workers lost sin if he makes for his assailant with aflthorities to speak out swiftly for to court, names were named, wit• about all government and Nazi in­ their source of livelihood last month the fixed intention of killing him, or justice, strikes a note of warning in nesses produced, and still the steel· stitutions, organizations, and cere­ when the shop, the Standard'Electri­ inflicting harm on him." these days of Fascist rumblings be­ controlled courts have taken no monies. Wherever the Faith of Ger­ cal Equipment Corporation, in which - On Cops neath the surface of American free­ action. 1 man Catholics has impeded the they worked, was unionized. "If the servants of a sovereign or dom. Unscrupulous men have set out spread of this idolatry, there has Only men with union cards could judge, in virtue of their public au­ Clear-cut suppressions of Brow­ systematically to outrage. the most ·been sharp and bitter conflict. be employed by Standard, but these thority, attack certain men, and der's constitutional rights- took place fundamental rights of American citi· Schools Abolished workers had no cards, nor could these defend themselves, it is not the in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Tampa, zens, and in so doing endanger a In spite of specific guarantees in they get them from the union. The former who are said to be guilty of Florida. In the former city he was movement essential to the economic the Concordat of 1933, Hitler has union refused to enroll the Negroes. strife, but those who resist public twice prevented from speaking, be­ freedom of millions. abolished Catholic parochial and high How do unions expect to achieve authority. Hence it is not the as­ ing thrown into jail on one occa­ The constituted authorities stand schools in many parts of the coun­ worker solidarity when they con­ sailants in this case who are guilty sion for "vagrancy" and on the other idly by, while anarchy, violence, try. Where he has left the schools tinually and of their own action of strife and conlmit sin, but those barred from the radio station by a terror stalk through the land. Ameri­ 'l he. })as f.requently re~~v~ the teach- create an 1army of scabs and ene- who defend themselves inordinately." crowd of businessmen-vigilantes can liberty seems to be in for • hard .(. (Continued on page 2) • mies? • St. 'fhomas Aquinas. (Continued on page II) • wmte~• Page Two · THE CATHOLIC WORKER Rural Catholic Leaders ST •. LOUIS LE'ITER SEAMEN! St. Louis Center, 3j26 Franklin Ave. STORY·OF AFLORIDA FARM Speak for Distributism · St. Louis, Mo. There are reading rooms :for Dear Editors: sailors at 1110 S. Second Street, One of the leading contributions of I have just :finished an hour's con­ Philadelphia, and we hope our Ther~ are many things I would fight. Insects are more of a pest and the Church to American culture has readers who are seamen will like to say or write, that might open the nematodes. The matured ones been the National Catholic Rural versation with a young Communist take advantage of them. Tlie the w.ay to what I have hoped and can hardly be seen without a micro­ Life Conference, which last month from next door (the· Communist worked and waited for-but I have scope but they sting the roots of latest magazines and • book~ are held its 14th annual convention at book stoore is three doors away) and not the art of making it carry weight many plants and then their growth Fargo, North Dakota. kept .on hand, and a }Jundle of again I am amazed at the specious­ 100 Catholic Workers are sent -and begin to see that the cause is is ended an_d truitage stopped. One Resolutions adopted by the con­ ness of the Communist theories. Un­ there every month. - from -my own great imperfection of has to study the remedies. ference called for the encouragement less Christians begin immediately to spirit. My ideals are far better than But by proper man?gement the and preservation of widely distrib­ THE CATHOLIC WoRKE11, New crops are surprising. Peanuts are bear witness to the truth of Chris­ York office, continues to ofter my life bas been. Yet no one ever uted ownership of- the land, organi­ tianity, Communist materialism will hospitality to seamen. Many of tried more zealously to find and great. We have over an acre this za~on of agricultural laborers, vo­ set the world on fire within our life­ our friends who came and stayed practice the right way. year and John hopes to have 20 acres cational training at public expense next. They say that will fatten 50 ~e. I have never been so deeply with us during the strike last It goes to show me that human for children in agriculture and home unpressed by the impending danger May drop in between trips and nature cannot find its best expres­ hogs and that would bring a big arts. as I was in conversation with this get bundles of the paper to ha_nd sion except in the highest teachings income. Then sweet potatoes. We are half living on them now-and Co-operatives Essential sincere young Communist. ou,t to their friends. A Spanish of th~ saints-who knew how to Rural study-clubs for adults and make use of simplest things to attain we have discovered that the leaves We have opened up a Catholic seaman last month came in for make good greens. We plan to can 4-H clubs for youth were advocated. some papers to give to friendr the greatest perfection. One resolution- declared the co­ Worker center in St. Louis. From In some to tide over a season of dearth, here we are carrying on- all sortS Marseilles who were asking for Mexicans Understand operative movement, "when illSpired Even after coming into the Catho­ In fact greens are a great de­ by Christian principles, is essential of activity. We are working with it. We extend an invitation to p-endance in the south and they un­ Mr. Hugh Lyons, a Catholic, who is our fellow workers to bring their lic Church at the precise age of 50- to ecol)omic and social reform." (having been an Episcopalian 15 derstand the value of the "pot­ The Conference also urged the one of the C.I.O. organizers in the friends also to our meeting_s, likker" for vitamins. Onions are St. Louis area. · Several of us have which are held Tuesday, WedneS'­ years and a Methodist minister's formation of units of the National wife about 20 years-before that raised through tl).e winter, and cab­ Confraternity of Christian Doctrine distributed CJ.O. circulars at the day and Thursday evenings. bage. We are doing our best to get steel plants in St. Louis for Mr. pure pagan)-! had to grope along in our rural parishes "for the sake in the dark. It was supposed that a start of these three. And I am of religiously under-privileged chil­ Lyons. trying to raise okra, which I like Actually. Actin&" I understood and I was given work dren," and praised the proposed es­ Seamen Stnke · visiting Mexicans and teaching the very much. The !)ematodes got tablishment of the American Society . We have heard several lectures by children. I learned more real mine last Spring but I am trying to of Home Missions in the rural sec­ Mr. Lyons at our headquarters on get another crop this fall. . (Continued from page 1) Catholicism from the Mexicans than tions. the necessity of geiting Catholics in­ from other Catholics. Tjiey have Assorted Crops Key-Noter terested not only in talking about file strike. Officials of the I.S.U. are really a broader and more intelli­ Irish potatoes they say can be The central theme of the Confer­ but actually acting to alleviate the not voicing the wishes of the mem­ fent conception of the Catholic grown if one knows how. We can't inhuman conslitions under which ence was sti:;uck by Rev, John C. bership in the many statements they Church than the American Catholics. try too many uncertainties yet. Rawe, S.J., of St. Mary's, Kansas, laborers must live in the steel in­ have made to the press of late. Fur­ Strawberries· can be grown in dustry. We are trying to enlist the What you are doing, and what I who said in his speech, "A&'riculture thermore, they h,ave continually ob· am trying to' do is perfectly normal abundance but, not yet for us. We and the land have an infinitely aid of college students. Unfortu­ structed progressive measures and put up many wild bfackberries and nately we have not yet had -much to the Mexican Catholic. But the lar&"er job in the life of any nation would not countenance democratic American Catholic, who is in a hard dewberries and plan to get each un­ than the mere production of the na­ success in getting any of them in­ control by the seamen. Their con­ der cultivation. Mulberries are as terested in action. tinued attempts ·to discredit the conventional rut must be shaken out tion's food supply and raw materials. in order to know what Catholicity fine as these other two, and earlier, strikers by shouting "Communists" Unless the land remains primarily a We also let out the headquarters means. and we have cuttings started. Elder­ only betray their unwillingness . to place to build many better homes two afternoons a week to a young John C. however, has had much berries can be pruned into trees and and happier families, our farms will lady who has a catechism class of face the issues. the same idealism, and we became bear immensely. We have sites become merely another type of fac­ young negro boys and girls. ·Communist LeadershJp acquainted through the missionary good they say for citrus fruits, tory, very simllar to steel mills, coal We have also served two meals to Undoubtedly the Communists are campaign of Bishop Gerken in orange, grapefruit, etc., and will get mines, oil fields and industrial them going as soon as possible. And men who wandered into our place taking advantage of the dissatisfac­ Texas. John had long resolved to plants, inhuman places where we are asking for fQ.Q!!. We have no facili­ make a home for "Mercy Workers," casava-the root, three feet long, to slave for another.'' tion of the rank and file to try and from which tapioca is made-main ties for serving food but we gave impose their leadership. But the lay women who have spent years in religious work-where they could food supply for the natives of South rank and file are not predominantly America. We want to get a start Communist, as David E. Grange, In­ continue works of mercy in a home of it for next year. Catholic Worker Opposition to Projected ternational Seamen's Union official, of their own, in security and peace. But we have no fence on two would have us believe. Nor do the Farm for $30D sides, and stray cattle can come in Farm-Labor Party Communists number as much as the He obtained possession of a fine any day or night and work havoc, 25 per cent mentioned in the recent little farm near his own home 21h The Lord has defended us this past Farm-Labor Party stands tor: Catholic Worker stands for: miles distant-with the help of con­ Progress statement of John M. Franklin year. We can get splendid fence Tradition president of the International tributions from some ot the Mercy Industrialism Ruralism Mer~ posts in the open range for noth­ cantile Marine Co. Workers-total cost less than $300 as ing-only the cutting and haulin_g Machine Handicrafts it went for the payment of back de.. Caesarism (bureauracy) Personalism Regardless of leadership, the sea­ cost. men have good reason to strike. linquent taxes. . Pioneer Country Socialism Communitarianism When I came here, perhaps you Organizatioru., Organisms. Whether the strike is.Communist-led or not, it does not invalidate the sea­ will remember the deep affliction It is like a pioneer country. With men's cause. It is only regrettable that was upon me. only a little capital the possibilities them what we have right over the that these seamen, many of whom are enormous. The false boom of past years has given out a wrong Germany office table. are Catholics, must accept Commun­ Interested Con.vent impression. But the people in gen­ ist leadership ·f~r lack of better. eral are backward. Only a few of (Continued from page 1) Last week I made a visit to a con­ Non-Violence vent outside of St. Louis. The mem­ the wise ones are succeeding. ·The ers, replacing th~ with Nazis bers of the community are all inter­ Further, we commend the seamen rest do the easiest thing and live trained to teach Nazi propaganda. on the m~nner in which they are from hand to mouth. The authorities have forbidden ested in THE CATHOLIC WORKER. I gave them a long talk about my ex­ conducting the strike. Non-violence Immaculata , with l'i!Jarywood is a· mem.bers of Catholic organizations, has characterized the action of the farm of 75 acres-but in two separate including the Children of Mary, to periences with you folks in New York. They are all interested in men and they are determined to con­ pi~ce; one is 25 acres all woodland, enlist in trade unions, have threat­ tinue to run the strike along peace- with splendid trees, and if fenced ened Catholic fathers and their !am­ Peter and want to hear him talk sometime. The community gave me ful lines. , they say a herd of goats would ities with starvation if they did not We therefore commend the strik­ easily subsist there and be a source break their connection with Catholic $15 to help carry on THE CATHOLIC WORKER program in St. Louis. This ing rank and file for using "Pure of profit. This is named Marywood gro'ups and join Nazi organizations. Means" in their fight against selfish, and is about one-half mile this side Press Suppressed helped us to pay the fii:st month's rent. Today a pnrish priest gave materialistic interests. of Immaculata. The publication and distribution Of We wish the Hearst newspapers We have neither horse nor mule, important Catholic documents, such me $3 to help pay bills we have con­ tracted. . and other organs of bourgeois-capi­ nor cow-only one pig which is as the German Bishops' letter from talism would Ce&JI crying "Com­ expected to bring forth a brood of Fulda and even the Holy Father's I am attending St. Louis Labor College one night a week. We would munist" every time · workingmen piglets soon to feed on the peanuts. address to the Spanish refugees, have grow tired of intolerable conditions. been suppressed throughout Ger­ like to develop a similar colle"e Need Help We wonder if Mr. Hearst and his many. The Catholic Ga.zette, dioce: along Christian lines to teach the We lack capital to do all this and performers of editorial acrobatics san paper of the Bishop of Bel'lin, doctrines of the enclyclicals to work­ the work is more than John can do was recently suppressed outright by men. have ever read that delightful Aesop alone. Eldarene and I have helped fable, "Wolf! Wolf!" the government, and many other Unity of Mind with the hoeing when we could get Catholic' papers have suffered the We are concentrating on Clarifica­ over there. same fate. tion of Th0tt.ght at our headquarters Also cowpeas are a great crop for It is not necessary for Catholics in witl!- round-table discussions every The Functions animals and humans. The weevils Germany to express seditious, or Thursday evening. We will feed and get after them in summer but we even critical anti-Hitler opinion;;, in clothe the poor as much as we can had to harden ourselves. Just so it order to bring down J.l\ezi wrath with the resources we have. We of Government is only the weevil egg and not the upon their heads. There are priests know there can be no Christian insect, we ~ose our mind as much in German prisons, there are exiled revolution without a well-defined "Government, according to the as possible. Worms will eat us some priests in this country, who are theory of revolution. We are striv­ American way, has two functions, day. We managed to put up 57 where they are today only because ing for what Peter calls -Unity of one negative and one positive. Its quarts and then the nematodes got they dared to preach straight Cath­ Mind. Then. we will be ready for negative function ·is to keep away too busy. Next year we hope to olic doctrine on such questions as concerted Catholic action. We would obstacles from the individual,' to Bethune manage better. The casava is said sterilization, nationalism, race wor­ also like to develop liturgical prayer to be splendid foQd for both man prevent his property from being I invested what little money I and beast. ship, and war. at our meetings because we know confiscated, his personal ambitions had left, here with John: Then the velvet bean, which vines False Friendship that the litur~ is the indispensable from being frustrated, his opinions Hitler has broken his wo1·d re­ source of Christian social regenera­ The farm lmmaculata; intended for so heavily that one cannot walk from being suppressed, his capaci­ the Mercy Workers home, as yet has through it. Stock feed on it or it peatedly in violation of the Con­ tion. ties from being inhibited. cordat, and it is apparent that he We are having some difficulty in no house completed on it, but John, can be cut for hay-and it is one of "Its business, on this side, is to who is like St. Joseph, a carpenter, the greatest soil enrichers. The soil will not be happy until he has en­ getting workingmen into our meet­ prevent coercion. To pr2vcnt fear. tirely stopped the mouth and bound ings. We have to be careful not to is bringing a good house into a llv- is very poor and must be either Fear of the policeman, fear of the able condition, finishing enough of it fertilized with the commercial the hands of the German Church, develop just a high-brow "intel­ tax collector, fear of the recruiting strangled its pulpit, press, schools, lectual" plaCi!. -You folks from New to make it livable for the present. He fertilizers or built up with the soil sergeant, fear of the boss, and tear counts on renting this as soon as it enriching crops which also produce an!l organizations, and reduced it to York will have to teach us how to of the mob. a state of dumb, helpless slavery. get workingmen and women into can be lived in, at $6.00 per month food for animals at the same time. Sensitive Demeerae• to t • ; In ~e face of what is happening our meetings. J so as assure he taxes. And we tried out cooking the velvet now m Germany, it is no wonder Hope to see some of you folks in "On this side the American peo- Ideal fer Comm-• bean which is produced abundantly that we cry out, "Better the Oi>en St. Louis soon. · pie are extremely sensitive, as are Then as soon as possible,· he will on the vines and found them very enmity of Communism than the fake In Christ, all peoples with a long tradition of add an apartment of two rooms good, th?ugh apparently no one else traitor friendship of a Fascist liar!': Cyril Eche1e, democratic government and demo- where. I and a companion can live had thought of trying them. cratic society, whether they are Eng- to start the community. Meanwhile, I Pasturage is wonderfully abundant lishmen, or F,renchmen, or Swedes. live on with him and his wife on for cattle owing to the great amount . "The posture of Christian ,;:;;, ".A'.nd it i1 well that It should be their acreage nearer town, and I be- of rainfall-and there are so many m face of Communism is not Oilly Oa the Use of Force so. For out of this lack of coercion lleve as they also seem to feel, that crops that can be raised as cat~e the posture of one who carries in hia IJ>rino- WtT11thing that is creative, I - help enough not to be an· added feed. heart eternal and absolute truth· it Christ came to destroy the works affiNn4tive, and per1onciU11 reapon- expense. The thinf we lack most is a little is also the posture of the cUlprit ~ho li~le. . · . 'Now perhaps with this basis I can bit more capital and more assistance . of the devil not· by powerful deeda, has failed to live thia truth; who - ·but rather by sufterinf from Him . . ..- But 1ovemment_has a positive give you some of the information with work. h~ betrayed it."-The Preblem of function. To do thlnts which will you would like about the country. Johtl · ~ rlo work for waies; he and His members so as to conquer Communiam, by Nichelu Berdyaev. the devil by righteousness, not by help the individual to realhe these I d:> wish you could start a real farm cannot pt the Gov't work and hia powei'.-St. Thomas Aquinas. lefitimate aims. Above all, In a commune hut, tor I believe it would only eub income ii the rent ot a .,.~ - 4emoeracy, to work to equalize aad be kleal-anct there could be co- houtle. for then are two in 10Qll ...... ,. ~QM...... _ _ k _ _...... - ~erallze tt.. ellanee." ~~th ~~~" ~Jlth! ! • • 1~1~ ., thia plan. With •1~• ~~··~ I'll..,...... ' • • · l>an>tb1 ~L l GI wuue Me U9 cemtei tit ~COnUnuecl on pap 5') ' THE CATHOLIC WORKER Page fhree

Co-operation in Volunteers Wanted! Globe Strike Catholic Worker Doors Fly Open Before School Racine Showing There are still millions of (Contin~ed from page 1) C. W.'s Managing .Editor American Catholics who have for the 105 strikers it was approxi­ Labor Way Out never seen a copy of THE CATHO­ mately $12, not the "about $8.50 to The interest shown at Wednes­ Detroit, Mich., Oct. 2~ , 1936. LIC WORKER, $9" that the union had claimed day ight meetings of the Cath"­ Dear CATHOLIC WORKER:. Wanted: men and women, boys In spite of the fact that most of lic Worker School has inspired Your managing editoF, Mr Calla­ Gas, Coal Co-ops, Credit and girls, to sell the paper. This the regular staff were the company's the formation of two study groups han, left here Tuesday night after Union Bring New can be done in many ways: in creditors, by reason of the bonds to be held on Tuesday and Thurs­ five very full days of lectures and your daily conversation; in front they held, and therefore disinclined day evenings at 8 o'clock at the important conferences. Friday . he _ Confidence N. Y. headquarters, 115 Mott I of your parish church once a to join a union and make things was in discussion here at the Guild, month on Sunday mornings (with awkward for their debtor, possibly Street, one block north of Canal and in the evening he and Mr. Con­ Racine, Wisconsin, was a "co­ the pastor's permission); in front to the extent of endangering their Street; two blocks west of Third nolly · of London, Ont., arlei myself operative desert" until Danish­ of other parish churches as well investments, the Bookkeepers', Ste­ Avenue. bad dinner at Assumption College; ; American workers, union and un­ as your own every Sunday morn­ nographers' and Accountants' Union The Thursday night group will following which we visited with employed, invoked the tradition of ing; at meetings; on the street; in succeeded by the end of September study and discuss the subject of the Fathers until near midnight. their Fatherland, and despite great subways. in secretly organizing a little over '.'Communism," and Peter Maurin During the evening Connolly gave opposition planted another outpost The importance, the value of half the staff, which then included will be- in charge. The two great an· illustrated lecture on the Mexican on the growing front of successful this work is tremendous. We can­ a large number of temporary work­ social encyclicals, "Rerum No­ Persecution. Saturday Bill arranged co-operation. not stand still; we must go for­ ers taken on for the fall rush. varum" of Leo XIII and "Quad­ a talk for Tuesday afternoon to the ragesimo Anno" of Pius XI, will With a population of 67,000, Ra­ ward, and though the service of Workers Fired students at St. Joseph College, cine depends on the manufacture of the paper can never be measured furnish the topic for the Tuesday Adrien, and at Assumption for Mon- , farm implements and capital goods by the number of its readers, yet, Shortly before the strike was night group, which will be con­ day night. for its economic existence. Hence, if it is alive, it must grow. "You called three men were discharged, ducted by John Cort, of the Sunday morning he spoke at a . in 1933 Racine was hit as hard as are the branches." allegedly for union activity, although Worker staff, and will have its joint meeting of our Guild and the any other similar community. Those interested in selling Mr. Whitehouse claims that he did first meeting November 17. St. Margaret Mary Mission Society, The workers of Racine, faced by should write to Martin "F. O'Don­ not even know there was a uni'on Lectures on general topics fol­ at U. of D. Chapel. In the after­ drastic wage cuts and layoffs occa­ nell, circulation manager, at THE in his shop. One of these men was lowed by discussion will contim:e noon we had a long visit with Dr. sioned by the depression, welcomed CATHOLIC WORKER, 142 So. 4th a young cripple, Charles H. Four­ at the popular Wednesday night Derry, President of Marygrove Col­ and took immediate advantage of Street, Easton, Pa., and tell him nier, an expert operator who had meetings, which are also held -in lege, at his residence, and ar­ the collective bargaining principles how many papers they want. worked off and on for Globe for the the Mott Street store at 8 o'cleck. ranged to address the students Mon­ embodied in the N. R. A., and sev­ past eight years. day morning. Leaving Dr. Derry, -After his discharge Fournier went eral unions were formed. Union an appointment for later in the day. we visited the Shrine of the Little recognition was won after a series to Mr. Whitehouse and asked to Flower, and spent a half hour with DISTRIBUTIST GROUPS know the reason for it. The other Mr. Baron again refused and walked of strikes. out of the office. Father Coughlin. Sunday evening Unemployed replied that he did not know, that Bill and Beck, editor of the Michi­ he left all hiring and firing to his Walkout SWING INTO ACTION gan Catholic, held a long conference ~ Meanwhile the unemployed were department heads. (It is a federal faced wiU,. the problem of existence. This was just before lunch. The at my house, and Beck got an ap­ offense, since the recent passage of word had been spread beforehand pointment with the Bishop for Their pli~t demanded an expanded A new magazine and new action is the Wagner Labor Relations Act, for purchasing power. One of their announced by the Committee for the that union members inside the shop Tuesday morning. companies engaged in interstate were to come to union headquarters Monday morning Bill talked at leaders, Herbert Katt, not unem­ Alliance of Agrarian and Distributist commerce to discharge any one for ployed, but a successful business Groups, which was formed last sum­ during the lunch hour to learn the Marygrove, and at night at· Assump­ union activity, to interfere with results of "the interview." None of tion. Tuesday morning we had a man, aroused to the necessity of mer in Nashville, Tennessee. union organization, or to refuse to finding some way out for his corner The magazine will be called "New them returned to work that after­ visit of an hour with the Bishop at bargain with a majority union.) noon. The strike was on. his residence, and in the · ternoon of society, unexpectedly found it one America: A Magazine for the Small . Open Meetinl' day when he entered the co-oper­ Property Holder," and its ftrst issue The strike is still on. Both sides he addressed the students at Adrien. When he heard that trouble was are bitterly antagonistic, equally un-· I write you this because no one ative gasoline station at Wausau, should appear within the next brewing, Mr. Whitehouse called the willing to make any concessions, ·to ever came here and filled in their - Wisconsin. This was in June, 1934. month. whole staff together and told them Katt returned to Racine and con­ Discussion groups for those in­ admit any fault, to even a,ttempt to dates so remarkably on short no­ ferred with sorely tried and per­ terested in this young vital, and understand the other side's point of tice. Bill must have an Archangel plexed union leaders. Co-operation truly American movement have al­ view. The whole affair bristles with for an advance agent. All doors ,. was the way out, he told them, and ready been formed in New York, mutual distrust and resentment, with seemed to fly open before him, and here was a sample of its unques­ Princeton, Nashville, Baton Rouge, every symptom of Class War. the truly great seemed to be wait­ tioned success in the gasoline sta­ Pittsburgh, and several Jesuit col­ Just Complaints ing for him. I cannot believe that tion at Wausau. The idea looked leges. It is clear that the strikers had much mutual good will not come ot his coming here. Certainly from the good to the union leaders, but they Al'rarlan Aims just complaints. Their wages were seeds planted here by Peter, your­ realized that the recent failure of "The thesis of Agrarians," accord­ bad, the heavy doses of overtime a pseudo co-operative enterprise ing to . the group's prospectus, "is and the uncertain "bonus" system self, and now Bill, we should sooq had momentarily broken public con­ gave them plenty of reason for or­ see some sprouts of the Worker that agriculture occupies a special apostolate appearing above the fidence in co-operation, and that a position among the forms of liveli­ ganization. If Whitehouse did not long program of education would interfere with that organization, his ground. Sincerely yours, hood in America. Farming can Henry B. Sullivan. be necessary to restore it. never succeed here as a pure money­ indifferent attitude in regard to the Labor Takes Hold making business, by reason of the discharge of thr.?e employees for excess of the land in terms of the alleged union activity showed an There were seven union men at amazing lack of any sense of re­ that first conference. They were market to be sµpplied; the excess PHILADELPHIA FORGETS amounts to an over-capitalization. sponsibility to his workers, to him­ members of the Painters', Tool and self, to the law. Diemakers', Plasterers', and _ Ma­ "But it is inevitable and right that ri's ''BROTHERLY LOVE" vastly more Americans should take The use of a policeman at the chinists' Unions. All that summer meeting was a mistake on White­ of 1934 these enthusiasts of co­ to the land than are needed there to supply society with the agricultural house's part, but excusable. Not ex­ Philadelphia, long known as the operation spread the gospel of bet­ cusable was hilt employment for "city of homes," can also boast of ter living at union· meetings and products. They go there in order to run a business which is free, and guard duty of professional thugs, being "the site of the worst slums in picnics. Fifty-two Racine unions whose sole object is to create vi­ the country." were contacted, -and by October subject only to their own manage­ ment. In order to sustain them­ olence, precipitate a strike and keep Appearing in the, August 30, 1936, selves in it they must define this it going as long as possible. These issue of "Domestic Commerce" is a business in terms of subsistence­ pe_ople are a distinct n1enace to so­ report made by the Real Property farming as well as money-fanning. ciety, the self-avowed enemies of Survey, a CWA project, concerning This is the old way of farming, economic peace and co-operation, Philadelphia's housing, Summed up which has to be recovered." and any man that does business very briefly, the report showed that despite Philadelphia's enviable rep­ H Interested take-s with them puts himself in wrong three hundred ten ($10) dollar Those interested in· subscribing to righ't at the start. utation she still had much to do shares were sold. Fifty per cent of the new magazine should communi­ care Unjust Strike along sluin clearance lines-i!special­ the shares were taken by union cate with Mrs. Katherine G. Jackson, It is also clear ·that the strike was ly among the sections inhabited by Negro families. members. ' The Racine Consumers' 17 East 97th Street, N. Y. C. Those of the unjust. Granted that the union offi­ Co-operative, Inc., was formally set interested, either group or indi­ cials were badly treated by the Twenty-three percent of Negro up on October 24, 1934. vidual, in joining the national organ­ sick guards, it is nevertheless true that homes were unfit for use as con­ they were trespassing on private trasted with 5.2 percent for white A gasoline station was the first ization, or in attending one. of the housing. venture decided upon, and a repre­ discussion groups, should communi­ property at the time. This does not sentative of the Midland Co-oper­ excuse the company's action mo- Less than one-third ot housing for cate with James M. Waller, 124 Negroes was found to be "good." ative Wholesale laid the plans for Twenty-first Avenue, South, Nash­ -Ade Bethune rally, but union officials should know ville, Tennessee. The average age of houses occu­ the Co-operators. A lot was to be that he would be glad to discuss better than to stick their necks out pied by Negroes was fifty-three complaints with any employe or any at such a time. leased and the station built on it, years, opposed to thirty-two years but expected opposition on the part Christ in the Slums representative of an employe inside Much more important, the only for housing for whites. of gas station operators already in "You must walk with Christ, mys­ or outside the shop. possibJe conclusion to be drawn from A further comparison of Philadel­ the field p~t an end to plans of com­ tically present in you, through the It so haJ1pened that that day was the subsequent "interview" with phia's housing appears below:­ plete ownership. Pressure brought streets of this country, and find the pay-day, and a . cop having come Whitehouse is that the latter was Negro White to bear on the city council by the same Christ in the people of your along with the pay-roll, Mr. White- willing to bargain with the union, ...--Percent-, profit-taking group had influenced cities and your villages. You cannot house asked him to attend the meet- and the union refused to bargain Not equipped with that body to refuse the necessary claim to worship Jesus in the Taber­ ing "just in case-" This attend- with him. It may very well be that heating apparatus.. 1.78 0.68 I license for such a buildir:g. nacle if you do not pity Jesus in ance of police was afterwards used Whitehouse would have refused to No running water in Undaunted the slums." Bishop of Zanzibar. by the union as evidence that White- bargain later on, but the fact re­ house or yard. . . . . 1.2 0.4 The next step of the Co-oP,erators house had tried to intimidate his mains that he offered to make an No bathrooms ...... 21.1 9.3 coal was sold members in seven workers and so interfered with appointment and his offer was re- was to 'lease a station on one of No indoor water clos- months, union or~anization. jected:- Racine's main streets from an inde­ ets ...... 19.6 7.5 As the business has grown, great Only a few scattered complaints Death and Bankruptcy pendent operator who was not mak­ stress has been put on educational Not equipped with ing a "go" of his business. He came in. A few days later, however. Striking is a serious business. No- gas ...... 6.5 1.4 activities, as it has been the experi­ two of the union officials Samuel body that has tried it needs to be gladly accepted the job of station ence of Co-operators that most fail­ No electrical insta - captain with regular weekly salary Baron, president, and Mu~ray Na- ' told. Violence, death, extreme hard­ lation ...... 7.7 2.3 ures have been due to lack of un­ than, organizei;. called at the Globe. ship for the strikers. bankr@tcy for and soon became a most enthusi­ derstanding of Co-operation's basic We think these figures speak for astic convert to the Co-operative Instead of going straight to the the employer, certain loss and bit­ themselves and we hope that the spiritual principles as well as eco­ office they went to another floor and terness on both sides, these are some movement. Herbert Katt was made nomic principles. "City of Brotherly Love" will live manager. asked to see a friend inside the shop. of the consequences. No strike is up to its title. The Racine Consumers' Co-op. Collective Bargaining just where the strikers have not ex- With a paid-in capital of $1,500 has recently announced its intention and three hundred car-owning mem­ At this point several bruisers, ap- hausted every possible means of set- to start a retail grocery store in parently hired a few days before tling their dispute by arbitration. two wrongs do not make a right. bers, the co-op did a business in their new headquarters. If it has the first nine months of $38,447.41. from a strike-breaking agency, where This is a fundamental principle; The poor and oppressed are n~t ex­ half the success of its other ventures they are called, in the business, Secondly, h~ving refused th:m- empt. from the moral law simply Purchase refunds to consumers and grows as the others have, we net ted $3,537.77, or 9.2 per cent on "nobles" intercepted the union men selves to bargam, the uruon officials , because they are poor and oppressed. can soon expect the realization of and gi{ve them "the bum's rush" then hall the bad-judgment to accuse Any union that cGnducts itself on. every dollar spent by the consumer. the Co-operators' dream-a profit­ downstairs. Whitehouse of that crime. Thirdly, ~ u.ch princip.les is nii union f?r Cath- Credit Union less town. Decidedly upset by his reception, they misrepresented the wage-aver- olics. A union _for Commurusts per­ Usually the fust venture of Co­ Mr. Baron then asked to see Mr. age, a mistake as foolish as it was haps, ~or Fascists, for. pag~ns , for operators, the Credit Union was or­ Change of Address Whit ehouse. The latter sent out dishonest because the wages were loose liberals, for Machiavellians, for ganized in July, 1935. The members We ask our readers to please word that he was just leaving for bad enough 'anyway. pragmatists, but still no union for were then assured of. savings and notify us of chilnl'e of address, the bank but would be glad to make The " action of 1he union in this~ Catholic~ . small loan facilities on a co-oper- l'iVinl' both old and new address. an appoi~tment for two o'clock that strike is tantamount to an admis- If t~e Catholics in a union can't . ative basis. Many of our readers who are afternoon. Mr. Baron's' answer was sion that if it had been in the em- keep it on the level, they would do With gas station and Credit priests and nuns and teach in that he must see Mr. Whitehouse at ployer's_position it would have been far better to get out and stflrt. one Union established successes the Ra­ Catholic Schools are traruferred once on very important business that much mol"e unscrupulous than he of their own ... We hav~ hear~ to~ cine Co-operators next t,ar,~led the durinl' the summer months and could not wait. Mr. Whitehouse re- was. much about . Commurust uruo~s. . ~uel problem, and a iima)l . ~oal yard we are anxious to keep our files plied that he was sorry but he was "On the Level" It is about time the Communists :-:was leased. Buying ~o.wer was con- la order. positively unable to s~ anyone at Once and for all, the end does not were muttering in their beards. c(:ptra~d and $25,39]:31 t: ~orth of that time, and agai.J:i offered to make justify the ,means. 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NOVEMBER, 1936 VOL. 4. NO. 7 THE CATHOLIC WORKER PLAY REVIEW BOOK REVIEWS (Member of Catholic Press Association) Everybody knows that Sinclair THINK AND PRAY; Prayers for Published and edited monthly by DOROTHY DAY, Lewis recently wrote a _ novel en­ realism of Christ-the folly of the Use During Retreat or Holy Hour or Cross. at 115 Mott St., Ne\~ York City titled "It Can't Happen Here." Not so many know that it was a vivid Private Devotions, by Joseph. Mc­ Secret of Success WILLIAM M. CALLAHAN, Managing Editor sorley of the Paulist Fathers. Pub­ "I used to wonder why the Jews PETER MAURIN, EDWARD K. PRIEST, Editorial Statf; ADE account of the horrors attending the possible establishment of a Fascist lished by Longmans, Green and Co. put Our Saviour to death. The Gos­ BETHUNE, Art; .TAMES F. MONTAGUE, Farm Manager; . DANIEL $1.50. pel record of the Passion seemed al­ IRWIN, Bursar; MARTIN F. O'DONNELL, Circulation. dictatorship here in America. Even fewer know that Mr. Lewi;; The proof sheets of this book fell most a strain on one's faitl\ . . . But I Easton Office Farm and John C. Moffitt more recently into my hands just before making have been reading the newspape!:'S 142 So. 4th St., Easton, Pa. R.F.D. No. 4, Easton, Pa. dramatized the book, and that none a short retreat, and permission was for the last two or three years and St. .Joseph's House and Propaganda Headquarters, 115 Mott St., N. Y. c. other than the Federal Theatre given to review it before its publica­ I no longer w0nder ... Our Lord had tion date. It is the choice of the committed what in the eyes of the Subscription, United States, 25c Yearly. Canada and Foreign, 30c Yearly. Sub­ Project of the WPA has produced ecription rate ot one cent per copy plus postage applies to bundles ot one it on the stage of the Adelphi The­ Spiritual Book of the Month Club world is the unforgivable sin. He hundred or more copies each month tor one year to be d irected to one address. atre, N. Y. C., where it can now be for December. had denounced social injustice." It Notify of change of address. giving both the OLD and the NEW. Requeots for seen at poor-man's prices. is an impossible job to do a And then Father Furfey applies aew snbscrlptlons, renewals, change of address and discontinuance should be sent book of this kind justice in a short the world's test, the test of suc­ to this oft'lce (ll:S lllott Street)'&t least two weeks before they are to go Into eft'ect. Altogether it makes an exciting evening. When the young Corpos, review. Those who are familiar cess to the Technique of the cross. '· Entered as Second C lass Matter, December 5, 1934, at the Poat Ottlce Fascist militia of the little town of with Father McSorley's writings­ Within three centuries the cross and ot New York, N. Y., Under the Act ot March 3, 1879 Fort Beulah, Vermont, slug an old The Sacrament of Duty and the its fools had capturep the world. groceryman to death because he dis­ Primer of Prayer-will welcome Here then lies the secret of suc­ plays posters opposed to their can­ this new volume, which is made up cessful Catholic Action. Accept the didate, your blood begins to run of prayers entirely-the kind of Cross of no Compromise. "The cold. prayers which enlighten the under­ Cross has shown us the emptiness THE USE OF FORCE Reign of Terror standing, enlarge the heart and in­ of worldly prudence. The Cross is You groan inwardly as one by one flame the will to an intenser and mtlst always be our program of Christ Our Lord came and took upon Himself our humanity. the decent element in the town are spiritual life. Catholic Action." He became the Son of Man. He suffered hunger and thi·rst and persuaded that what the country Stresses Imitation Literal Christ needs is "a strong man." · Senator As a retreat master Father Mc­ "Let us be Catholic Extremists and hard toil and temptation. All power was His but He wished "Buzz" Windrip, a kind of Huey sorley is one of the most popular let us fiy in the face of worldly pru­ the free love and 'service of men. He did not force anyone to Long, wins the election on a wave in the country. He has used these dence. Let us dare to take Chrjst of national despair, and the reign of prayers on many retreats, and they literally." · believe, St. Paul talks of the liberty of Christ. He

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~ and child in their communities to CIHCAGO LETTER Mormon Persona1ism consider the welfare of others Arthur G. Falls, M. D, about them as their own, and to be Speaker at C.W. School Tells of 4655 Mlchiran Blvd. (Continued from page 1) willing to work for others not re­ The Chicago ·Group is greatly con- 363 work projects . employing over lated by ties other than Christian cerned at the present time about the 19,000 unemployed in various forms fellowship. It has called upon every acquisitiQn of permanent headquar- of shop work. Over 1,000 were given man, woman, and child to be per­ Fighting Communism at Geneva ters, feeling that the opportunity for jobs in private industry. So great sonally responsible for the amelio­ the corporal works of mercy will be bas been the activity that there are ration of the present crisis. greatly .increased. We are anxious I only 10,000 employables left on the No State Aid "In fighting Communism,''' ex· to have a place which will draw the relief rolls. We repeat, all work was voluntary Florida Farm plained Antoine Allard, . brilliant man in the street, as well as a place Example for Catholics and personal. No money was paid young artist-writer from Belgium which can serve as our library, The Church of the Latter Day in wages. And it was accomplished

I • f"age Sis • T-H E CAT H 0 L I C W0 R K ER to the Concentration Camp ... Day Mter Day Pluralist State VllL PLUR~L.lS.~ THOUGHT Catholic Rural Life School 1. Humanists believe (Co!!tinued from page 1) with Robert Burns (Continued from page 1 ) As usual Father Ligutti leads the way in the Catholic Rural Life one must be a fanatic. that "man is a man Meditation -of this tact makes for all of that." movement. . 5. And liberals hatred and strife between brothers At Granger, Iowa, "The School of the Assumption" is newly opened are so liberal 2. Theists believe the more to beopposed. The work that God -created the world, and Father Ligutti adds a school to complete the social structure of about everything we must do is strive for peace and his subsistence community. that they cannot that Re is Our Father, - concordance rather than hatred and and that we are all brothers. The school is intended to train boys and girls to live a successful become fanatics strife. and Catholic life in the country, . . . . about anything. 3. -Protestants believe On the Fa.rm that God, Our Father, The girls will be trained in religion, homemaking, m,1tr1tion, nursmg, 6. And because liberals sent His only begotten Son The trees are getting bare, but child care, arts and crafts as well as classified subjects. cannot be fanatics to save the world still it stays warm. Coming down The boys will be taught religion, basic agriculture and a broad course about anything, from sin. at night from the city, the warm, in farm shop work covering most of the trades. they cannot be liberators; 4. Catholics believe sweet smell of the good earth en­ The students will "learn by doing." they can only be liberals. that Jesus Christ wraps one like a garment. There The fundamental principles of Catholic Rural Sociology and eco- Ill. THE AGE OF TREASON established a Church, is the smell of rotting apples; of al­ nomics will be stressed. . 1. Pope Pius IX and that this Church falfa in the barn; burning leaves; We quote the pamphlet issued by the schoo~ as the most effective and Cardinal rfewman is the Catholic Church. of wood fires in the house; of pickled way to express the why of this type of education: considered Liberalism 5. Humanists green tomatoes and baked beans "This school is attended by boys and girls of this vicinity, - Some-are the greatest error are just Humanists. than which there is no better smell, from farms some from the homesteads, some from the town. We wal?-t of the nineteenth century. 6. Theists are Humanists not. even apple pies. - to give the~ in this school such training as will pre_pare th~m for th.e1r There is a warm feeling of con­ future life in the home. We would like to see them continue to ~1ve 2. Modern Liberalism plus Theists. 7. Protestants are Humanists tentment about the farm these days here-and to make good at their work. We don'.t want to handic.ap is the logical sequence -the first summer is over, many them in their future life, but we don't want to. direct them to a c17 of the so-called Age plus Theists plus Christians. people have been cared for here al­ where living conditions are poor, where wor~ is sc_arce, where mens of Enlightenment, ready-and we started out with cap­ and women's souls are crushed as well as their bodies ~ we wan~ more sometimes called 8. Catholics are Humanists plus Theists ital of a thousand dollars and noth­ farmers-boys and girls, ready and willing to live. on the,, soil, and the Age of Reason. ing else at all. From day to day we make good at God's noblest occupation-that of Agriculture. 3. When modern liberals plus Christians plus Catholics. did not know during the course of This is the kind of school we need most. This is _the type of educa­ gave up the search for truth the summer where the next money tion we would call truly Catholic. It is the rural life that keeps man they sponsored nationalism, IX. PLURALIST STATE to pay bills was coming from, but in touch with God and his Providence. as well as capitalism. 1. The belief in human personality trusting to our co-operators, our 4. The appeal to prejudice is the common belief readers throughout the country, we tributing literature. The first time took the place of Humanists, Theists, of the appeal to reason. went on with the work. In spite of Leon Trotsky was sent to jail it was U. S. Steelmakers Retreat Protestants, Catholics. our collective- faith, there could not because of printed leaflets urging the 5. And the Age of Reason 2. On this common belief was superceded help but be a feeling of strain at workers m Odessa to organize. In of human personality times when there was so much to be the history of the working class To Cheap Labor South by the Age of Treason, Humanists, Theists, as is pointed out done and no money for · tools or movement men have gone to jail, Protestants, Catholics, equipment, not even enough to pay been put to death, have been sent Steel is moving into the South. by Julian Benda could very well build up for food. But now all our bills are into exile tor running a newspaper Steel is moving into the home of in a book entitled a Pluralist State. "cheap and contented labor." Steel "The Treason of paid ,and there is a renewed feeling and printing literature which the the lntellec- 3. Futilitarian States -of ..:ourage on the part of all those government considered subversive. is trying to out.flank the growing tuals." as well as Totalitarian States ~ who are aoing the work, a sense of we Must Distribute and successful C. I. O. organization IV. UTILITARIAN THOU~HT are not based confidence that the work is progress- If the forces of the enemy set such drive on northern steel labor. South­ on the cultural tradition 1. When English philosophers ing. store by the distribution of literature ern steel workers face the choice of broke away of the Western World. This month of thanksgiving will to acquaint the working masses with aiding that drive for the benefit of from Medieval thought 4. The Pluralist State indeed be one of gratitude to God. their theory of revolution (and both North and South or of losing they formulated ts a S,tate . For health, for work to do, tor the Lenin said that there could be no :for a generation to come the chance where Humamsts what is called opportunities He haa given UI of revolution without a theory of revo­ for economic freedom. a utilitarian philosophy. try to be humau;-­ service; we are deeply grateful, and lution) then most assuredly we are Southern labor, says the steel­ 2. Locke, Hobbes and Hume, Orthodox Jews it is a feeling that makes the heart doing the right thing by distributing makers, is "easy to handle." And the the utilitarian philosophers, try to be Jews; swell with joy. Tm: CATHOLIC WoRJtER on every pos- U. S. Steel Co., Inc., has announced had for ,.. ·ciples Christian Protestants During the summer when things sible occasion. · construction of new plant equip­ the !utilitarian economists try to be Christians, were going especially hard in more There are forty thousand members ment, through their subsidiary, th• of the Manchester School. and Catholics ways than one I grimly modifted of the Communist party-in the United Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad 3. Since the advent try to be Catholics. grace before meals, We give Thee states. There are twenty thousand Co., in the. Soµth, where they hope of the Manchester School, X. ALLIED TECHNIQUES thanks 0 Lord, for these Thy gifts, people in the Garden at these Com­ to enjoy an unlimited open shop the School of Laissez Faire, 1. Social movements _ and for all our tribulations, from munist meetings. Not by any means condition. · religion has nothing to do based on personal responsibility Thy bounty, through Christ our a majority of them are Communists. Steel Stratel'Y with political economy are not hindered Lord. Amen. One could know of Many are sympathizers. Many e.re Two batteries of coke ovens, two because political economy by the Pluralist State. certain knowledge that tribulation., good trade unionists. Certainly the modern, continuous cold rolling has-. nothing to do 2. The Cooperative Movement, were matters of thanksgiving; that great mass of workers, convinced mills, a continuous wide strip mill, a with social ethics. the Guildist Movement, we were indeed yrivileged to share though they may be that better con­ blooming mill, a tinning department with a capacity of 4,000,000 base V. FUTILITARIAN ECONOMICS the Agrarian .Movement, in the sufferings of our Lord. So in ditions can only come about through the Communi~rian Movement, this month of thanksgiving, we can violence, do not want class war. boxes of tin plate. The bill will 1. The Futilltarian Economists ftnd_themselves at home be thankful for the trials of the past, Surely the great majority if faced come to $29,000,000. With this mill of the Manchester School -~ in the Pluralist State. the blessings of the 'Present, and be with the choice between good and equipment and with cheap labor to thought that the general interest 3. The Pluralist State heartily ready at the same time to evil, God .or the devil, would not run it, U. S. Steel could close down of human society does not try • embrace with joy any troubles the chose evil. It is on this assumption its northern mills until the C. I. 0. would be well served to solve the social problem future may bring us. , that we are working. It is for this storm blows over. 1f everybody by· passing laws Mott Street reason that we go out into the high- U. S. Steel also hopes to get in on was always mindful or creating bureaus, One of the girls has written an ac- ways and the byways, out on the the ground ftoor of what is slowly of his material interest. but by removing count of the doings at Mott street street corner and the picket line with becoming America's best market­ 2, The Futilitarian Economists from the Statute Book this past month. One thing she did our paper. the awakening South. It will also be of the Manchester School all the laws ; not mention is the fact that our house Many of our readers throughout getting into position to compete more thought that everything that hinder the activities reeks -of the wine keg. The back the country are also distributing the profttably with its strongest and most would be lovely of the social movements yard between the front house where paper. We ask you all to help in this, aggressive rival, Republic Steel, if everybody took in based on personal responsibility. we have two apartments and the the Christian revolution. Send for which has made several southern each other's washing. 4. The Pluralist State store, and the- rear house which is extra copies and give them to your mergers of late. 3. The Futilitarian Economists stands for leadership, St. Joseph's House proper, ha11 been friends. We do. not believe southern labor of the Manchester School not dictatorship. tilled with huge barrels and from In Ute Clothes Boom "easy to handle." We trust southern­ believed in the law early morning until late at night At Mott street we have an entire labor, Negro and white, will realize of supply and demand there has been vyhat should be a room devoted to clothes. Many a day their danger and .fight together as anci could never conceive rustic job going on. Barrels are forty people come in for gµments they musi if Steel's retreat into the of the possibility washed out, grapes come in by the and many of them have to be turned South is to mean victory for them. of too much supply truckload, the cellars are open to the away. The other day we gave fifteen Southern labor also holds in its and not enough demand. warm, fall air, the work of making women warm coats, but there was an hands victory for northern steel . VL FUTILITARIAN STATES wine for the whole neighborhood is equal number of men who had to be workers. Southern labor alone can bring Steel to terms. 1. The Futilitarian Economists underway. Some of the Italians in turned away. The best we could do l of the Manchester -School the front house are making barrels for many of them was give them thought that business for this family or that in the neigh- warm wool scarves. We need sweat­ the printer's overseeing the makeup is just business borhood. And this is not a matter of ers, no matter how old or holey. We of the paper, because Bill Callahan, and that politics scandal or extravagance. The !tali- need suit coats, even if there are no who of all the crowd is best at make­ should keep out of business. ans with their spaghetti and wine pants. We need overcoats, under­ up, is away, and John Cort and 2. The Futilitarian Economists dine frugally and healthily, and there wear. Many of the men went away Eddie Priest, though they can get of the Manchester School are few real drinkers amongst them. wearing women's stockings in want a story and write one-though they thought that the State Some day we will bring Teresa's of men's. Do you know what it is fit in every other way into the is only useful camera, which she won at a school like to walk the streets with bare scheme of life of the Catholic Work­ when it helps business men rattle, into town and take pictures and blistered feet in your shoes? er-are not as yet at ease in writing to collect their debts. of pushcart-lined Mott street, St. Jo- Please help us by sending in your heads and balancing the front page. 3. The war of 1914 seph's house, and the wine keg-lined old clothes. We have a family of Not that I am so hot myself. But I and the peace of 1919 yard between the houses and publish children also who need to be out­ should be there, I think fretfully. are the logical result them in the paper. Until we can af- .fitted, as well as men and women. However, I shall sit and wait, of the foolish notions ford a picture page, however, our One of the fathers of the church writing this last bit of "copy," and of the Futilitarian Economists readers must be content with these said, "the coat ·which hangs in your as to how things are going in the of the· Manchester School. word pictures. close~ belongs to the poor." crowded print shop where three' 4. England, France and America, At a. Communist Meeting- In a Courtroom other papers are going to press at our Futilitarian States, Tonight ten of us went up to Madi- This is being written down at the the same time-I shall just have to are now busy son Square Garden to distribute a County Court where I am waiting leave that to the Lord, and our in­ ·trying to solve the problems few thousand papers before and after for the commitment clerk to come experienced fellow workers. When brought about one of the Communist meetings down from the Bellevue psycho­ it comes to choosing which is the by the lack of understanding whieh are held there every week. pathic ward. The paper must go most important work this morning­ of the Futilitarian Economists The Garden holds twenty thousand to press today, but there is a work one human being is of greater im­ 'of the Manchester School. and is always packed to the doors. of mercy to be done. One of our portance than all the papers ever There is always a crowd who cannot women has fallen into the hands of Vll. TOTALITARIAN STATES published-I am sure our readers get in. the State (and the State is becoming will agree. So when they find errors . 1. England, France and America • "What's the idea of distributing lit- an inexorable guardian) and they in the proof reading or in the heads, think they can muddle through erature to that gang of reds," one have decided she is psychopathic an unbalanced job in the putting with their eighteenth century of our friends wanted to know. And and needs to be committed to the together of the paper, they will politics. we reply, that if one person of all Manhattan Hospital. It is to rescue please excuse us. 3 Russia, Italy and Germany those twenty thousand who throng her that I am here-to plead to have giv'en up the idea the Garden is to the slightest degree the judge to release her in our care. of two, three or more moved by anything he finds in THE She had been with us six months political parties CATHOLIC WORKER, we will have con- and we had known her and helped Pamphlets and Leaflets By and have adopted the idea "Be always on the side of the pooT sidered it a good night's work. We her for some two years before that. of one political party. heard of one man who was brought What peculiarities she has we can PETER JUAURIN and DORO~ . DAY man m t her than the Tich--until you. (Radicals of t11e Right-The Mystical 4. In the Futilitarian States know the truth."-St. Louis. back to the faith last month through cope with, but aside from any men- Body-Stand on Strikes, other• la everybody is told THE CATHOLIC WORKER and that one tal disorder, perhaps the result of pr<'paratlon.) "Mind your own business." bit of news was enough to make us cruel hardship and loneliness and ·order From THOMAS BARRY S. In the Totalitarian States "Socia! oTgqnization, and the land intensify our efforts. insecurity, we are convinced tfiat a 22 Eaton Place everybody is told .system are tu;o. of.,. the peTJ)etuat It is a little recognized fact that most grave injustice is being dCJ!le East Orange, N. J, "Do what we tell you pToblems of man~ind."-Bebe Jar- revolutions are started by just such which we must prevent. · FIVE CENTS APIECE or out you go ett. 1(1 •. '"' .seemingly insignificant acts as dis- Right - now I should be do,w11 S / - THE CATHOLIC WO.,R KER Page Seven

.... ·-·• • -LETfERS. FROM · OUR READERS .-.• • there are scabs is because the work ing able to see the Church for the Archbishop Writes . of organization has been neglected." glories that they see in St. Thomas. St. Mary's Abbey Blessed- Gaspar Example Again, in the same article regarding And that, I think, would sadden the Ciudad Trujillo. the Communists' use of violence: Angelic Doctor more than anything Newark, Oct. 24. Dear Editor: . "They are protesting against man's else in the world. Dear Friend: For Catholic Wprkers I am following with keen interest brutality to man and at the same So I sugegst that you give St. With the permission of the Head your "apostolic work" among the time they perpetuate it. It is like Francis a little time. Of the two Master of our school, I have made Dear Friends, "humble ones," or rather "the chosen new plans this year for the distri­ having one more war to end all wars. men Chesterton could have said, as Your recent editorial on- your children of Christ." ' We disagree with this technique of he did in speaking of something bution of the WORKER. Beginning "affliction-unpaid bills" as well as Many magazines are flocking to class war, without which the Com­ else: "Here, again in short, Christian­ with your October issues, which I your letter concerning the same, has my desk: very few with the scent of munist says the brotherhood of man ity got over the difficulty of combing ·want you to · send us at once, each come our way. We are sorry that Christian inspiration that permeates boy in the school becomes a regular cannot be achieved." furious opposites, by keeping them we are unable to donate a sum of every single line of the CATHOLIC subscriber to your excellent paper. both and keeping them both furious. money that would put a big dent WORKER. We shall encourage the students t•J in your debt column; but, of the Please don't discontinue it for lack The church was positive on both send for extra copies for their own From Radical Reader points." Briefly, Mr. Perkins, and little that we have we are glad to of money. You should go begging private distribution. So send me at share somewhat with you. Enclosed at every door, before silencing the Commonwealth Coll. with all the good wishes in the your earliest convenience 550 copies world, if you're going to have the find five dollars, which the G.M.S. echo of a voice, that sounded 20 cen­ Mena, Ark. of the October number and regu­ voted to send you. turies ago among the toiling people Dear Miss Day: cakes you might as well have the larly thereafter each month. I want ale. We noticed that the last issue of of Palestine. Th~ you for your letter. I was to make the CATHOLIC WORKER Tm: CATHOLIC WORK.ER carried a The more the roaring of the not here when you were, so I Yours in Christ, A SUPPLEMENTARY TEXT FOR BRYAN J, DEGNAN. drawing of Blessed Gaspar preach­ Pharisees and the shouting of the couldn't have had the pleasure of THE RELIGION CLASSES Llli ing to the "Gangsters." Y>0u can escorting you to the bus.• I teach sheep-like wolves endeavor to at­ THEIR STUDY OF · THE SOCIAL imagine that most of the seminarians organization of the unemployed. tract poor exploited humanity into QUESTION. Our catechisms give here were quite enthusiastic to find the Communistic abyss, the more "Outsiders, many of them kind and little or no attention to this burning charitable in their intentions, some the Founder of the Congregation of the sweet and everlasting voice of question of the day. the Most Precious Blood and his Christ should re-echo, as the only of them Reds and Communists anxi­ With every best wish and prayer, ous to get ·their propaganda work among the "banditti" honor ed expression of Truth, Love, Justice. I am sincerely in Christ, by your attention. · Yours in Him started .. " does not strike me as fair. Fr. Benedict, O.S.B. Obviously it implies that the reds Blessed Gaspar Is an excellent Richard Pittini example of what arduous tasks and Archbishop of Santo Domingo. are not kind and charitable. I feel about the proletariat as heroic endurance, strong spirituality Isaiah did about Assyria. God has Exposing Conditions at Joe and Christian zo/.11 can lead an other­ selected them to be his instrument wise weak and sickly body to under­ On Violence lli achieving a very important pur­ Leiy's _ go. As a little boy walking the pose. streets of Rome m the clerical garb Albany, N. Y. Of course it wasn't only-the pro­ of which he was so proud, Gaspar Dear Editors: letariat which carried through the Dear Editor: del Bufalo showed an utter disre­ After reading the articles in your revolution in Russia. The vast ma­ "And behoU the tears of such as gard for the jibes that the less piouo October issue on the strike at the jority of the-peasants united with were oppressed. And they had no liked to poke at his deep piety. 1 ' Berkshire Hosiery Mills and the let­ the proletariat. comforter. On the side of their op­ a young priest he faced the bitte · tuce pickers' strike in California, a Spain ~ pressors there was power, but they enemies of the Church with ur:­ question occurred to me. That is the In Spain the unity of classes is had no comforter." wavering trength. When the:; matter of your attitude toward mass even more marked (with this in view Ecclesiastes, chapter 4, verse 1. wanted to send him into exile fo r picketing, which I observed in vari­ I fail to see how you can urge any­ Like ancient Israel groaning in refusing the oath of obedience to ous issues of the Catholic Worker. one not to take sides with regard Egyptian bondage the women slaves Napoleon, Gaspar boldly proclaimed: It appears incongruous that, while to Spain. The Spanish people have toil from 8 A. M, to 6 P : M. And "I would gladly die or suffer any you take such an extremist attitude taken sides, most emphatically. now Mr. Levy is talking of having us evil than take such an oath." Later against violence that you apparently Exact figures for Catholics would be come in half an hour earlier in the in life he had to suffer persecution even discotlll).tenance a war fought impossible, but obviously at least morning, and work half an hour worse than the foregoing. He was against an enemy whQ, without prov­ 80% of the Catholics, probably over later each evening. Mr. Levy is a the target, the sad victim of jealousw ocation, invades one's country, you 90%, are on the side of the govern­ dealer in garment remnants, 298 and misunderstanding within the pass over without criticism cases of ment they elected. In their hour of Bowery. Under the lash of this Church. His devotion to the Precious mass picketing. This. practice, it massacre you refuse them your sup­ cruel task-master, we are forced to Blood and• his work among the seems to me, is generally intended port. My astonishment at your at­ lift heavy bags of cloth remnants "gangsters" were especially the either to intimidate or actually use titude is so great I cannot express weighing more than 200 pounds, and causes of great deal of trouble with- violence on the non-striking worker it). carry to-our different pla.ces for sort­ in the Church. · or strikebreaker. In the case of the ing. Either standing· all day, or on Berkshire Hosiery strike, the pres­ Spain makes it clear that no Stronr By Grace matter how mild the p.rogram of re­ our knees on the dirty floor, we toil ence of 4,000 men on the picket line, In spite of every difficulty, this form, we shall have to fight in de­ with a velocity of speed that con­ many of them not even employees fuses the novice, and makes the weak man made strong by grace, of the firm, was certainly not neces­ fense of it. Of course the attack persevered, in founding a congrega­ will come largely from abroad (as speed of the planets in the solar sary to inform other workers that a system seem insignificant. We tion of priests to whom he gave the strike was going on. A far smaller in Russia's civil war, or in Spain charge of going out to preach Chrd today. This means that our. fight , smother and cough in the thick dust. number would have done that. Yet, -Ade Bethuu We eat our lunches standing, or sit­ and the Precious Blood wherevc:­ when violence results from tactics will be shorter, since international they could gain a ):!.earing, whether capitalism is growing weaker every ting amid the dusty rags on the like this, as in both the Berkshire From a Liberal in great cathedrals or on stre- . day. My guess is that over half of dirty floor. We have no dressing­ Mills strike and the lettuce pickers' Dear Miss Day: > room, but stow away the best we corners; whether in alleys or (as h the blood that must be shed has al­ Here's one dollar. So little that the case of the bandits) in far away strike, I notice it is the police you ready been shed by our valiant com­ can. There is no heat in this place. denounce. If you consider the use I am almost ashamed to send it. I Only those who have worked there hideouts. rades in Russia, Spain •and China. do sent it, however, in response to I of intimidation or aggressive vio­ know our suftering in winter. We think that in many respects / lence by striking workers justified, I But you do not help to reduce the your latest appeal through THE Blessed Gaspar is a fine example to bloodshed by telling Americans that receive only $8 per week for our would appreciate your writing some­ CATHOLIC WORKER, in the hope that drudgery. Recently- Mr. Levy show­ Catholic Actionists. For, many of thing in the C. W. explaining why. there is a program which will not it will be one of a great many in­ bring on a fight. Surely Spain ing a customer aroup.d pleasantly in­ the difficulties that the latter meets I don't want to be misunderstood dications that your work is appre­ proves you are wrong. Their pro­ vited him to spend the evening with as well as many of the virtues the as at all impugning the justice of ciated. Whatever your religious pro­ him, saying he had four tickets for latter needs are found in the life gram was even milder than yours, I fessions may be, you are human either of the above-mention~d think. the Follies. Mr. Levy lives in luxury, of Blessed Gaspar. For instance: his strikes. What I am -inquiring about enough to wmt appreciation. while the workers starve on the courage as shown above; his thor­ is the tactic of mass picketing em­ Don't forget that Hitler smashed I am unable to believe in the kind all The German cooperatives. miserable wages, and suffer in the oughly Catholic attitude with which ployed in these ·and many other in­ of God and the kind of Creation that Polar atmosphere of the work-shop. he viewed everything; the de­ stances. May I hear from you again? you do, but without your premises By the way, as to pacifism, are Let us say with the immortal poet, termination with which be carried FRANK P. MOTHERSELL. I highly approve of your attitude "Be not dumb like driven cattle, be through those plans which he knew you familiar with the chapter on on a number of current problems Christianity and Pugnacity in Hock­ a hero in the strife." Let us take off were from God; his care in avoiding and also your personal approach­ our aprons, and throw them in the anything tP,at might be considel'ed ing's book, "Human Nature and Its and that of Peter Maurin and the Answer on Violence Remaking?" I think St. Thomas boss's face. Let us demand living as disloyal to he Roman Pontiff, (he rest-touches my heart. wages, shorter hours, and better con· was at times sorely tried l?Y Pope ~ Editor's Note.-We do not con­ agrees. Please, in all of your working and done violence on the part of either Yours in Christ, ditions in the work-shop. who misunderstood his work ar. ' i writing, try to understood that a BERTHA (A Reader). misjudged his ri\otives because Ga; · strikers of police, and we never Haven Perkins. . vast number of us are apart from have. As for mass picketing in itself, (Editor's Note: Then it was an­ par's enemies were louder in the· all churches not because we are denunciations than Gaspar was · i we consider it as one of the few other teacher at Commonwealth who sinners, but because the creeds do means the worker has of publicizing studies St. Thomas.) his own defense>;. lastly, Bl. Gasr not seem true to our reason ~ And Lettir his cause. We consider the joining California was at one with the modern stre- please understand that we are far . Los Angeles. prea~hers and catechists for r. • of sympathizers with workers in From Vermont Correspondent more in accord with your standards picket lines as an expresion of Chris- Dear Friends: The co-operative realized tlre needs of the poore · tian Justice and Charity. , Dear Haven Perkins: and your outlook than are most of movement in California has ,not cl;isses and knew that unless he went the people in the churches. I hope Mass picketing is not intended to You say that you resent as slan- reached any great proportions as down to them and gained their con­ that our religious differences will not yet. The lit >t figures show about fldence while . speaking to them on make for violence, but, . rather, to .<'fer the remarks I made about the keep us from doing together what­ keep up the morale of striking work- Communists in Vermont. I would 53 groups operating in the State with their own level, tliey would be lost ers. Where it ends in violence, as like· to clarify my stand. I did say ever good we can do. indifferent . success. You know we to the cause of Christ. it did in the case you mentioned, and "Outsiders, many of them kind and Sin~rely, Californians are noted as the orig- Everyday Life A Reader. were it the fault of the strikers, ~ charitable in their intentions, some inators of all the crack-brained eco- Your paper, THE CATHOLIC WORKER. would condemn it as quickly as we of them Reds and Communists anx­ nomic schemes that have been foist· has contributed its share in making did when the police were at fault. ious ·to get their -propaganda started For the Fishermen ed upon a long suffering people. us seminarians social minded. It We have no particular ax to grind in Vermont, gave considerable aid to Dear Editor: Upton Sinclair with his Epic; Dr. has helped us to realize that our in regard to the police, and our con- the strikers." What I meant was In reference to your article in the Townsend and his 0. A. R. P., the Catholic moral principles must be tinued or, rather, usual condemna- this: Some gave in the true spirit of October issue of THE CAniOLIC Utopian Society that reached a mem- applied and practiced in everyday tion of police brutality is because in Christian charity, asking nothing in WorucER: Fishermen Fight for Rccog­ bership of over 500,000 in less than life. In spite of a heavy curriculum, most cases drastic police action is not return; while others, according to n,ition of Union Rights. a year, all have le.ft the rank and file we have found time to devote our­ justified by the situation, which has reliable uniOB men, gave many I would suggest that a Catholic in a very bewildered condition. selves to a s~dy of the Encyclicals. usually been created by non-striking things, but demanded mpetent leadership. Many be- studies. We have already held sev­ appearinc on the front J>8ie, entitled munist society, where man is human established for each occupation. lieve that-the passingof laws will be eral classes and ·11.nd the matter very "C. W. States-Stand on Strikes." In to man. ·There could be a Catholic Printers the solution to their, economic ills . . interesting. · this article we explain our attitude I MY that regardle!ll of the inten­ Guild of America, with. Chapter in 'Few ae~ to realize· ~at hard work Well, I must br~ this · lefter to toward industrial strife, and we have tion . on the part of the Communist each County of New York City and and sacrifice on iheu. own part. a close with the request that you since publiahed it in 1>9mphlet form. thinking, the Communist objective is in· every Diocese throughout the coupled with ll real co-operative breathe a prayer that we se~­ We quote trom the article under the neceuarily. cruet country. spirlt and deternµn&tion to make ians may become adept. in the social 1ubhNd "We Oppose Violence": - AIJ ·for your study ot St. Thomas, 1ood b;y their own eftorts is the only sciences llO that we can !ielp toward "We oppoee all UH of violence as that is aplendid, of coune, and I DON'T READ HEARST! way they w~ be a_ble ·to save them- this application ot Catholic meral unchristian. W• do not believe In eft"7· ;You your knowledie ot him. HE INCITES Cl.A.SS selvu. Thell' morale hu been principles" of which I spoke in th• • ..~ . ..,._, witla- eluti.. 'Tllff '5Ut I ' wara 7e>U that even devout Will·· t • .bfoke.i? u~· ilt is,\l•ltil som••ae-to~t Prwclina#r~ • worken, too. ill Uij r..U Ollhdlla' rua the ctanier· ot not ~ .__ ...._...-_....._.. e..__.,_ .....e _ _.,,___._ __• t 11 ~~~on uan I . · , ~~A. l&CAM'BY. C.P.nt;- - Page Eight THE CATHOLIC WORKER All Hail Antigonish! California Letter

"Unparalleled in the history of the (Continued from page 7) Church in the Western Hemisphere least try to show them the way out. t'\l FARMl·NG was the recent convention held at Communists Take Control Antigonish, Nova Scotia, under the This section of California is a very auspices of St. Francis Xavier Uni­ fertile spot for the growth of Com­ versity. munism. I have seen them at work "The e n tire English-speaking organizing "United Fronts" in which /COMMUNE world, in the persons of the dis­ all liberal groups were to participate, tinguished representatives who but strange as it seems, when the gathered there, sat at the feet of a question of leadership arose, the La­ To observe the number of flies School there for both boys and girls. few humble fishermen and farmers bor Unions and Communists, though around no one would guess that No­ The boys are trained to become good who taught by the mere· rec'ital of both in a great minority, ·took over vember's breezes will be here most men and good farmers, while the their own acts how they had solved control, while the publication of a any day now. In Octobe we had girls are given the opportunity of be· problems that the wisest heads of the magazine fell b to the hands of the our frost which killed the few re­ coming fitted to be a big help to such civilized world have so far found Communists. The Epworth League, maining green tomatoes and green men. We know of schools, both insoluble. Christian Endeavor, Y. M. C. A., Y. peppers. Before the frost we dug Catholic and non-Catholic, where "Men dressed in rough working­ W. C. A., and Open Forum groups, our sweet potatoes and were pleas­ girls are taught how to hold a demi· men's clothing, with little more than representing over 80 percent 'bf the antly surprised with the yield. They tasse and cultivate a very bored ex· a sixth or an eighth-grade education, delegates to the convention, found had been tended once after setting pression at all times, but Father Li~ speaking with Scotch burr or Irish themselves under the leadership of out the plants. The result was that gutti's school is the first. one that the Communist Group. the runners ·had gone down in the we've heard of wr~r e the girls or brogue, taught professors of London he boys are taught bjects by which University, and Cabinet Ministers I am bringing out these facts only ground any number of times to each to show the importance of presenting runner. ·Had we kept the runners they will benefit in later life. We from the Maritime Provinces, Catho­ who spent much of our time trying lic clergy from the farthest corners a constructive program in the place around the main part of the plant· of the destructive and subversive and not allowed them to go down to figure out what plays we should of 'the United States and Canada, re­ use against our opponents on the search scholars in the universities, propaganda of the Communists. That into the earth, the potatoes would is why I became enthused when I have been more numerous and much coming Saturday can appreciate the embattled Protestant applegrowers -Ade Bethune opportunity these young ladies and from the Annapolis Valley, econo­ learned about the work you are do­ larger. However, this is one more ing. I am afraid too few Catholics lesson we have learned. gentlemen are enjoying. I suppose I mists and business men, a simple les­ an entire people has been liberated will receive much just and unjust are doing their part in realizing the Words From Friends . ' son of the practical application of from the ruthless bondage of eco­ criticism from my betters and equals Catholic social teaching to everyday nomic exploitation in an incredibly danger of present conditions. We Paul Toner, of Philadelphia, have the backing of the Holy Father about this statement, but it still goes. problems through the process of short space o~ time. writes to find out how his old friend, Word Done adult education issuing in the organi­ "This object lesson to our civiliza­ in the great crusade for human jus­ Rosie the cow, is. Of course, Paul tice, but we sit idly by and let things During the month of October we zlltion of pr oducers on co-operative tion is the work of a · few humble had many other things to say, but have succeeded in keeping going as lines. Catholic priests lab9>ing with and drift until we drift into the same he devoted more space to Rosie than condition as that f und in Mexico usual, and have been able to put in Free from Bondage for God's poor. While the rest of the to any one other item. We have all a supply of hay which our friend, and Spain. "In an entire page devoted to the world debates, they are showing devoted more talk to Rosie than we Mr. Eichlin, sold us at a very good what the Church can do for human­ "Cry Out!" Antigonish movement, th e London have any other one subject recently. figure. Thahks to the generosity of ity.'° I. like to quote the words of Fr. We have had to call the veterinary Times referred to it as the greatest one of our friends, we were able to From the magazine, America. Gillis when he said some time ago, because of a cold in her udder. At put a roof on the barn and over the single achievement of our times, "Too many of us are sleeping clergy­ the present time we have to buy all made possible by the application of hay loft. We spent about $85 on me;::., and too · many of the laity are our milk, as she isn't producing. Of roofing and lumber. We are getting cold, clear scientific thought to the The strongest means are the pure likewise in a trance. Who was it that course, this isn't due to her cold, but some more lumber today to protect problems of livelihood. means and the pure means are the said lately that there is a church to the fact that she is still going to heroic means.--Jacques Maritain. Rosie from the wintry blasts. The ''Thi-ough the Xaverian movement militant but there should be no have a calf. We thought last month cold drafts were what caused her church dormant? It does seem to hat we might be able to tell all about cold. Next month we probably will me that what we need is not warn- the calf in this issue, but we'll have to be snowed in. There are only four wait. Speaking of veterinaries, Victor of us here now, and for the past two quotes Will Rogers as saying that a week ends there have been three Some Questions for Discussion vet is smarter than an M. D., because girls from New York down to pre• By STEPHEN W. JOHNSON the vet can't ask his patient where serve and fix up some vegetables for his pain is or when it hurts worst. the winter. In addition to this, they Father Ligutti have prepared all the meals while . Father Ligutti writes from his here. Needless to say, they are· very in one State is good for Catholics of 1. Excepting our Bishops and Granger Homesteads. in Iowa that he welcome. Priests, have the encyclicals at­ the whole country be a good answer? has a new course in his Assumption JAMES F. MONTAGUE. Danger of Fascism? tracted more ittention from those 6. Is there not the ever present outside the faith as offering solutions danger in these days of totalitarian­ ings to 'pipe down' but commands for the present disorders of society ism that Catholic national associa­ Catholic Students Get ST. JOSEPH'S HOUSE tions may get into the wrong hands to 'cry out'; not taps but reveille­ than from Catholics? <;ompare the Surge Qui Dormis, · 'A_tise thou that and thus be capable of doing untold mention of them on more than one sleepest'-not soothing syrup, lauda­ Important New Magaiine Winter sent its courier ahead to harm? The K . of C. for instance, or announce that it will soon arrive. occasion by President Roosevelt and num, the hashish of <'ontenbrtent those National councils of men or with a system that has again "hnd A new Catholic magazine, The Saint Joseph's House on Mott Street the late Huey Long with say the women? If there be no danger of again eventuated in a vast and even Catholic Stu.dent, is on the order• of became a beehive with the Worker public utterances of Al Smith or going communist what of Fascist? universal economic dmoralization, a Catholic Readers' Digest. The bees hurrying to prepare for the other Catholics in the public life. Or the Catholic international peace not a sense of satisfaction with the first issue contains articles and fic­ active winter ahead. Granting all the good claimed for association speaking for Catholics of sins and crimes of the existing· so­ tion from such magazines as The · Paint and brushes wielded in the the President's social program, and the country in matters like the cial and industrial order... " Colosseum, America, Blackfrair, The hands of the girls set to work to even if some of it takes its inspira­ League of Nations · or ·the World These are inspiring ·words, but I American Review, et al. It brings make the house attractive and com· tion from the encyclicals. If Cath­ Court? find" little real activity among the to Catholics the important and in­ fortable. Curtains were hung and olics in public life leave the inter­ • • • Catholic people. The Mormon teresting work appearing each month furniture fixed, and John Griffin set pretation of them to those not of 7. If the Xaverian experiment is Church has, by co-operation, been in Catholic magazines and books at to work building shelves, weather our faith, Js there not a grave dan­ attracting the attention of the whole able to take all their people off the home and abroad. stripping the doors and doing the ger that a new and anti-Christian world to Antigonish, Nova Scotia, relief rolls. Surely we Catholics Talent Wanted little things which really are quite humanism will be developed lead­ Canada. (See America editorial, should be able to do tbe same. It is of special interest to students, a job. ing ultimately to some form of to­ Sept. 5), why would it not. be feasi­ Voluntary Disciplined among whom the editors hope to find One difficulty - which we need totalitarian State? ble to take some State and fit this many with a talent for writing. Th\! your help to surmount is the lack of experiment to the :r;equirements of One of the greatest · obstacles in bed linen for our beds. Many of • • • • editors invite students to write fic­ that State? Will any such thing be tile pa.th of the co-operative move­ the guests ln the ·house are sleeping 2. Does not our greatest safety lie ment in this country is the failure tion for them as well as short- up-to· in Catholics joining with all others possible if Catholics are waiting for date lives of the Saints. The Catholi c on mattresses or between blankets. guidance from Washington before c • th-i people to practice voluntary The lack of enough bed clothing who believe in the doctrine of states discipline. Catholics should be bet­ ~tu.dent is published by E. J . Moloney rights and in preserving it at all they move-sometimes those mbves, and Brendan Sullivan at 317 West makes it harder for the housekeeper ter trained in this respect and could, and the girls to keep things clean costs from encroachments by the like the Lord's, are incomprehen­ 56th Strllet. New York, N. Y. sible. by their example, lead the way by and neat. Any kind of old bed Federal Government, thus guarding demonstrating a spirit of personal Would not the establishment of a We all have friends who have no clothing that you no longer need will against the totalitarian State and humility, and s}low others outside be appreciated by creating bulwarks against Com­ better social order we talk of so beliefs. Surely you know someone us. valiantly be more easily imposed in the fold that the Catholic does not munism or Fascism? reserve ·his charity for himself alone who d oes not kiiow where to turn Need Men's Clothes some State, say Rhode lsland, under for solutions .to the probiems of to­ CentralisationT but is· concerned with-the welfare of Beatrice and Ruth. are in the our present form of government in all God's creatures. . day. Send your friends THE 3. Granting all the good claimed the U. S.? CATHOLIC WORKER when you kitchen cooking for us and it's quite for centralization of Catholic social I am afraid I have made this too a job to undertake. With winter Prohibition of Usury long, but I am keenly interested in have finished reading It, or better program activities in Washington, 8. If "usury" is the root of a great the work you are · doing, and only still, send us subscriptions for them. coming on, heavier meals have to be prepared and our homeless friends does it not somehow imply that all part of our economic and spiritual wish every Catholic in the m•tion political activities centered in Wash­ evils, or if the "production for are coming in every day for clothes would take up the task of making and something to eat. Men's clothes ington would also be good? profit" system is pernicious: why this a better world in which to live. • • would it not be easier to work for I am sure we have a great field to FOR CHILDREN are needed badly her~ in the "city. • The number of people that we have · 4." Would it be well 'if Catholic "prohibition of \15ury" in one State? work in and if we can lead the way social activities were coordinated by even in a small way, we will ht' do­ "THE SAINT FRANCIS to turp away without clothes is sad· • • • dening. · cities and states rather than by 9. If a "Just Wage" is an essential ing a good work. PICTURE BOOK" One of our friends who works· and National Associations? Would they to a new social order, would it not If you would be interested I would by not more easily be inclined to com­ be more feasible to study it em­ be glad to write a short article on has an apartment near here has bine and act efficaciously on matters pirically and juridically • in one the history of the co-operative move­ ·ADE BETHUNE taken in some of our girls when they which directly affect the common State? ment in California. I fear you are were sick and when the lack of bed good of their immediate locality­ under the impression we have gone Catholic W orker Staff Arti1t space in the house prevented them • • • from enjoying St. Joseph's House. the City-and the next immediate­ 10. If a "Just Price" is essential as further in that direction than we the State? embracing the needs of labor, pro­ really have. 32 Pages-Price 75 Cent s The girls have also useu ner house ducer and consumer, would it not ALFREDS. CHARLTON. for a place to meet and discuss plans • • • for starting a Legion of Mary among 5. Catholics talk about the Consti­ be easier to arrive at a conclusion SHEED and WARD, Inc. tution. How many of them know by a study of the needs of each our girls and the other activities that we are engaged in. anything about their city charters or State? 63 Fifth Ave. New York City their state constitutions? How they • • • Let Browder Talk Quiet and Peaceful might be interpreted or amended in 11. Would it not be more feasible Elizabeth, Margaret and I have the light of a better social order? to work. for collaboration and arbi­ (Continued from page 1) started to spend our week-ends at Are there any laws now on the tration between capital and labor in known, ironically, as "the Law and CHRIST MAS the farm. We intend getting the statute books that are antagonistic One State than to be satisfied with Order I:.eague." house ready for the women and chil· to them? Is not the division of the principles being enunciated by There is little hope that Gover­ dren next vacation. The farm at opinion over the Federal child labor some national association in Wash­ nor McNutt of Indiana, often called CARDS this time of the year is the most amendment, the national activities of ington? "the Hoosier Hitler," will take any By pleasant place to live at. Everything Father Coughlin (which for some • • • action on this double outrage to civil is so quiet and peaceful that quite unaccountable reason is considered 12. Has any Catholic National as­ liberty, but it is certainly important ADE BETHUNE a lot of work can be .accomplished by Catholics to be a Catholic move­ sociation anywhere or at any time that protest be registered by all 50 Cards and Envelopes .•.. $1.50 in the short time we are there. ment), the National Front of- Mons. exerted its inftuepce in effecting those who sincerely believe in free­ 50 Large Cards and Envelopes, With everybody busy at the farm Curran, opposed by the Common­ arbitration of a strike, or investi- dom of expression, not just for their $2.50 and in the city, we feel that our win· weal, symptomatic of the difficulties ·gated . or helped other organizations own opinions, but for all opinions. Send Your Orders to: ter ahead will be a busy and happy of national Catholic movements? 'or religious bodies to investigate . In a word, we emphatically do -~t time for us all. We all are looking Is the answer that it is good to have conditions of labor in tb.e great major agree with what· Browder has to say, MISS ADE BETHUNE forward to Thanksgiving and we all Catholics divided on those matters industries Qf the country? Are they but we must, as Americans and as 29 Thames St. wish you a very happy Thanks· ll • good ans'fer? 0 would the ihli­ tamili~r with t e_; rates of pay ln Catholics, insist loudly on his right giving, THE GffiLS IN 1 I I" NEWPORT, R. ,I.· •wer that what ls good for Catholics proportion with tne .pi-oftts? to say it: · ST. JOSEPH'S HOU$B.