Word: labors
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Unique among followers of Karl Marx in the U. S. are the 3.000 members of the Socialist Labor Party. Unlike either Norman Thomas' plain Socialists or Earl Browder's Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney...
...Mooney, the class prisoner, was a symbol of labor's intolerable servitude. But Tom Mooney, pardoned and free, is a symbol no longer. He is an ex-class prisoner, who, to win his own freedom, led the workers into the enemy's camp [by advocating the election of Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social...
Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
...great churches of the U. S. have long been on record in favor of labor unions. But only a tiny minority of ministers and priests frequent picket lines. Last week labor unions loomed large among matters discussed at a Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems in Detroit. One of the great U. S. Catholic leaders, Detroit's Archbishop Edward Mooney, warned the conferees that "religious leaders in the present struggle between Americanism and Communism for the control of labor . . . [must] make Christian principles articulate" or "they will have to share their responsibility in the debacle that ensues...
Next day, to make his own principles articulate, Archbishop Mooney summoned all the 542 priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic...