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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catholics have given long and consistent support to sound social legislation on fundamental questions like the minimum wage, the right of labor to organize and to bargain collectively, relief of the aged, housing and many others. The insinuation that Catholics have not been "for" anything, is obviously untrue and unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...cite only one example, I would remind you that the Catholic position was stated before the Committee on Interstate Commerce on May 20, 1937, not "against" but in support of Child Labor legislation then before the Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...TIME erred in describing as "Washington lobbies" the numerous Catholic organizations which let U. S. lawmakers know how Catholics feel about public issues. TIME is satisfied, however, that it has in general given the Church its due for its official stand on social welfare matters. As for Child Labor, the N. C. W. C. favors its limitation by act of Congress. Most U. S. Catholic bishops are against the Child Labor Amendment, whose language they believe would permit Congress to invade the home and the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...American Congress of Labor "supersede and embrace" A. F. of L., C. I. 0., and the hitherto independent Big Four railroad brotherhoods (Engineers, Firemen & Enginemen, Railway Conductors, Trainmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I Am Counting On You | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...executive committee of the Harvard Student Union, after hearing a report from the Labor Committee and discussing it at length, voted support of the dining-hall employees' attempt to better their working conditions." Rufus Mathewson '41, Chairman of the HSU Labor Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

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