Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the spokesmen of 27,000 textile workers of New Bedford, Mass., said NO to the State, citizens, manufacturers. Ever since early April, when a 10% cut in cotton mill wages was announced, the seven unions of the New Bedford Textile Council have conducted a strike (TIME, Aug. 13). The former average wage of $19 a week was. they said, scant enough; $17 was unthinkable. Recently the State Board of Conciliation & Arbitration, the Citizens Mediation Committee, decided to compromise. They proposed only a 5% wage cut. The New Bedford Manufacturers Association agreed. Then the textile unions rejected the proposal...
More tangible than the nominal brotherhood of man was the relation between the priest and the congregation. All were lawyers. The Rev. Joseph B. Creedon, celebrant of the mass, is a onetime Manhattan attorney. The Rev. Joseph Stack, a onetime Washington attorney, and the Rev. William I. Lonergan, onetime Manhattan attorney, were present in the sanctuary...
...occasion was the celebration of the first Red Mass or Mass of the Holy Ghost ever read in the U. S. Each year in France & England this Mass (differing from the conventional form only in the insertion of added prayers to the Holy Ghost) takes place on the day the courts open. Similarly it was timed last week in Manhattan. Many a non-Catholic barrister sat with the kneeling Catholic Lawyers' Guild,* heard words of good counsel from Jesuit Paul L. Blakeley, listened to Patrick Cardinal Hayes. Said Cardinal Hayes: "In Catholic countries the great Crucifix is suspended high?...
...case, the world will have a chance to judge whether we have right on our side or not by tomorrow evening at 7 O'clock when we plan to hold a parade and mass meeting in Harvard Square...