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...came in the pages of Ecclesia, official journal of Spanish Catholic Action and the only magazine in Spain not censored by the government. Ecclesia listed some of the causes of the Spanish worker's "aloofness from the church," as reflected in a door-to-door survey conducted by priest-advisers to the government-sponsored unions...
...Swain explained that he had sent a similar subscription last year to a priest in the French West Indies. This year he would like someone in Europe to receive one. Wrote he : "I firmly believe that this is one of the best ways to encourage friendship for the free world. It becomes more personal when individuals make the contact, even in this faraway manner. I know that in my own case a subscription to a magazine printed in Paris has broadened my own outlook...
...line. They broke ranks to embrace the welcomers. They passed out mimeographed pamphlets thanking "Dear U.N. honorable fighters" for not letting them go back to Communism. One gaunt P.W. hailed an Irish Franciscan friar he had known in the camps of Koje Island. "That was Kuo Shu-han," the priest said. "Among the men he is a hero. He went into a 1,500-man compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down. "One thousand days behind the wire," he sobbed, "one thousand days . . ." A band rataplanned...
...workers themselves. With the cooperation of both company and union, he spent 44 months talking to Swift & Co. meat-packing workers in Chicago's Pack-ingtown. Father Purcell became known as "the Packinghouse Padre" and (from wearing a white coat to meet sanitation rules) "the White-Frocked Priest...
...went among them in a double capacity, as both psychologist and priest [and in] a position of neutrality between company and union . . . Almost all of them relaxed and spoke freely once we were under way . . . For some of the workers it was perhaps the first time in their lives that they talked extensively to one who valued their opinions and simply listened." Dual Allegiance. The workers' No. i want, the listener learned, was steady work, without layoffs or cuts in hours or pay. Next to dependable income, what the workers wanted most was to be treated with dignity...