Word: archbishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though the general strike petered out in four days, the strike of the longshoremen and marine workers which had started all the trouble did not. Employers agreed to arbitrate all grievances with longshoremen and marine strikers. The National Longshoremen's Board headed by Archbishop Hanna proposed that the striking longshoremen, not only of San Francisco but of the whole Pacific Coast, vote by secret ballot on whether to accept arbitration. Harry Bridges, radical Australian strike leader, opposed the vote but he was overruled and the strikers went to the polls to decide the issue...
...printed Father Wiesel's letter without comment. Also it printed letters from Father O'Malley, S. J., dean of Loyola, and Father Theodore Daigler, S. J., president of Woodstock College. No other clergyman filed complaint. The weekly Baltimore Catholic Review printed a moderate objection. After four days quiet, Archbishop Curley returned from a trip out of town, heard what had gone on, reached for his telephone. An underling on the Sun's desk took the call. To all the Archbishop had to say, that unhappy deskman could only gulp and stammer. Later in the day Editor John W. Owens visited...
...June 29, the Catholic Review burst out with an open letter from the Archbishop to be read from all Catholic pulpits in the diocese. Excerpts...
...case any of their flock did not know how to act, priests added a postscript to the Archbishop's letter: "Your pastor and the other priests of this parish have discontinued their subscriptions to the Sunpapers. ... I am notifying the firms with which I deal to send me statements in full. ... I shall notify them it will be impossible for me to be guided by advertisements in papers which I do not read...
...ARCHBISHOP DEFIED THE SUN TO PROVE IT DIDN...