( CATHOLIC .. S u bacr1ption 1 Vol. XX.I No. 4 NOVEMBER, 1954 25c Per Year P rice le ' , Spanish Archbishop -On The REQUIEM FOR FATHER ROY By DOROTHY DAY Duties Of r~e Employers, Fr. Pacifique Roy, Josephite, is chapter called Retreat in The Long had the same immeaiate approach dead. He was taken ill in 1946, Loneliness, but it could occupy to the problems of the day that we was unable to be active or say many chapters. This short article had in the works of mercy. He Towards Their Employees Mass until two months ago when a could not encompass all he meant always started to better conditions, Fotlowing are excerpts from a lengthy pastoral of Archbishop Ma'l'­ turn for the better enabled him to to us. giving away what he had in money, ce!ino Olaechea Loizaga of Valencia, Spain, regarding the duty of say Ma,ss every day during the Sister Peter Claver ·brought him skill, as well as spiritual gifts. employers to give a living wage to their workers. They were issued month of September. He became one morning to the back kitchen "Love is an exchange of gifts," St. by NCWC News Service: ill on the Feast of St. Francis, and and dining room on the second Ignatius said and the spiritual and Some time ago some exemplary employers in our archdiocese, de­ died on the feast. of the maternity -floor of the rear tenement on Mott the material were always insepa­ sirous C'f performing their duty· conscientiously as the Church requires, of the Blessed Mother. He was street, where the Catholic Worker rable to him. What he talked to gave to us a list of their employees and the daily wages of each em­ buried two days later, and I did house was then located. He was us about was not the social order, ployee. The employ~rs asked whether they were acting· as good Catho­ not receive word until a week impressed by our poverty, which but love and holiness without lics. later, so I could not go to his re­ made him feel at home used as which man cannot see God. He We ha.ve delayed our answer since we wanted it to apply to all em­ quiem mass. However, I can write he was to the homes of the colored spoke with such-absocption that all his obituary. ployers in the archdiocese, as regards to a minimum, though just, sal­ in the south and · in Baltimore who came, stayed to listen, and ary for workers. We wanted to make this application not in a general I have written It already in a where he wa~ then stationed. He (Continuecl on page 6) aense, nor with literary inaccuracies, but in-very concrete manner re­ garcling· the needs in our archdiocese and in our day. _ The task we have imposed is not an easy one and we feel sure that some will not understand us and that 9thers will only scan through this pastoral so as not to put an obstacle in their path. On our part, we thank God if our words may offer greater enlighten­ ment to some employers and consequently greater effort to their work­ ers, in the noble accomplishment of their respective rights and duties. We write, furthermore, for employers of good will who know .they are their workers' brothers and who wish to act as such. We write with anguish at seeing a future world torn by ektreme violence, a future which can be avoided only by a Christian social doctrure, annointed by fraternal charity. Workers have the indispensable duty imposed by nature to live in a worthy manner and to see to it that their wives and children live in a worthy manner. They have no means of accomplishing this duty ex­ cept through their work. Thus their-work must be a sufficient means to them. Let us see, venerable brothers and beloved children, to what extent employers are in conscience obliged to pay an average family wage. On the strength of Rerum Novarum, Catholic sociologists con<:luded that J>;lwnent of .aa average family salary obliges employers .in con· science. Many, however, influenced by inconect doctrines and others by shameful interests, were content to recognize only the obligations of charity. To them, the deprivation of such a sala'i"y represented a seri­ ous sin against natural morals and, with greater reason, against Cath- (Continued on page 7) HOMEWARD· -soUND' By AMMON HENNACY (A mix-up by proof readers cu worker and not a parasite. 6. To my homeward trip in the last be an Ana.rchist, which means not issue, so here is the remainder of to vote or take any part in gov­ it. The name of Francis was ernment, but to govern one's added to that of John the Baptist self. 7. Vegetarianism, along·with when I was confirmed October 21 no liquor, tobacco, coffee or by Bishop Flannery at St. Patrick's medicine. Chttrch in Newburgh. Within that In the next issue I will report week while at Mass in our parish upon my trial this Nov. 5. l was Chu,.ch of the Nativity here my arrested for selling CW's at 43 and Confirmation caught up with me Lexington and rearrested for re­ and what I had designated last fusing to "beat it." Dorothy, Ei· spring as Number 4 in my What leen Fantino, Bertha Tisius, John... Life Means to Me now becartre Stanley, Stanley Borkowski, Lee Number 1. At different times of Perry, and Jackson Maclow also my life I .have written down my sold CW's on thcit corner while I emphasis on this subject. Here was in jail, but were not molested. it is as of today. 1. Daily Commu­ The Civil Liberties Union is han­ nion. 2. Voluntary Poverty. 3. dling my case to prove that this Sermon on the Mount, which ·is is still a free country.) the retu~ning or good for evil in Towards Los Angeles personal contact. 4. Pacifism, My anarchist friend Olga Robin­ which extends this principle as far son planned a FOR meeting in the out into the world as possible: Quaker Church in Palto Alto. This with me it is the non paY71'lent of was a small but very intere~ting income tax for war. 5. To be a <Continued on page 7) Clarification On Distributism · Chrystie' Street By ED MARCINIAK David Hennessy, as reported by "is a design for the corporate that I, both privately and now pub­ By TOM SULLIVAN. Dorothy Day in the October 1954 state," "is all for co-management," licly !if Dorothy Day publishes this This ·press date finds us minus to come through with the money, CW, tags six of us, Monsignor tries "to make the best of our script), disavow. (I'm speaking two of our three editors. Dorothy and consequently was forced to go George G. Higgins, Father John F. present capitalistic system" and here for myself. The other mem­ Day is on a long lecture tour across to jail. Ammon's lawyer, Emanuel Cronin, S.S., Father William "is for working from the top down, bers of the sextet are well able to country. Ammon Hennacy is Redfield of the New York Civil Lib­ Smith, S.J., Brother Gerald J. (while] the other [distributisml take care of themselves.) spending five days in the city jail erties Union, maintained that Am­ Schoepp, S.M., John Cort and my­ works from the bottom up." To put me in my place, David on, Rikers Island. Ammon was ar­ mon had tl1e Constitutional right self as supporters of the industry If that's an accurat•e description claims .he's a distributist and I'm rested twice in October and to disseminate literature without council idea (please note my use of what the industry council idea not. I couldn't be, says he, be­ charged with selling without a li­ a peddler's license. Thus at this of "idea" for "plan"). is all about, I don't blame David cause I back the industry council cense the Catholic Worker and moment Ammon is concluding his So far so good. for suspecting that assorted sextet idea. But David is dead wrong be­ his book entitled, "The Auto­ second day in jail while Mr. Red­ But then David goes on to ex­ named above is lead-beaded. cause I'm both a distributist and biography of a Catholic Anar­ field is appealing this UJ)just con­ plain the industry council idea But David's sketchy picture of a disciple of the industry council chist." The judge decided that viction. which the si of us are to have the industry council idea nowhere idea. I can prove it ' by showing Ammon was guilty and offered him We must repeat that we are tre­ swallowed down to the very sinker. matches my view of the industry that David has a private version the choice of five days in jail or a mendo0usly impressed by Ammon'• According to David, the industry council idea. In fact, he's talking of the in(lustry council idea and a ten dollar fine. Ammon refused to sticking to his convictions to the council idea, among otber things, about some economic blueprint (Continued on page 8) pay the fine or permit anyone else (Continued on page 5) Page TUIO . THE CATHOLIC WORKER November, 1954 Vol. XXI No. 4 November, 1954 LOVE IS A WARMING .FIRE CATHOLIC rteb WORKER Dear Friends in Christ: Once again we are appealing to our brothers, our readers, our fellow-workers who are F•"lishecl Monthly September to Jane, Bl-mont~IJ l ulJ·A•r••• (Member of Catholic P ress Aasoclat1on) so close to us through these years of our association.