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...Eucharist Rally (Sun. 3:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Francis Cardinal Spellman presiding...
...poor man were buried last week. These arrangements were appropriate; during most of his life Peter Maurin had slept in no bed of his own and worn no suit that someone had not given away. But to his funeral among the teeming, pushcart-crowded slums of lower Manhattan, Cardinal Spellman himself sent his representative. There were priests representing many Catholic orders, and there were laymen rich & poor from places as far away as Chicago. All night long before the funeral they had come to the rickety storefront where the body lay, to say a prayer or touch their rosaries...
...striking gravediggers of Calvary Cemetery went back to work last week. For seven days, New York's Cardinal Spellman had led a corps of seminarian strikebreakers (TIME, March 14). A delegation of strikers' wives had visited the cardinal without result, and charges of "Communist domination" and "union busting" had flown back & forth. Then the striking cemetery workers, having cut loose from the Red-edged Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America, C.I.O., got a new charter as Local 365 of the Building Service Employees, A.F.L. The day the charter came through, the cardinal sat and talked things over...
Next morning an agreement was announced: a wage raise of 8⅓%, to $64.35 for a 48-hour, six-day week-the same pay offered previously by the cardinal on condition that the men return as non-union individuals. Cardinal Spellman waived the condition, recognized the new union. Both sides agreed to set up a three-man panel to investigate "future adjustment of hours." The cardinal's seminarians laid down their spades and went back to their classes...
...gravediggers-Catholics almost to a man-promptly charged that the cardinal's methods were "high-handed, arbitrary, and suggestive of the tactics used by anti-union employers ten years ago." The union also claimed that Cardinal Spellman and the trustees of St. Patrick's had "sought to break the union" by appealing to the workers as individuals in two letters and a telegram. They passed a resolution condemning "the union-busting tactics of any employer, including the Catholic Church when it acts as an employer." To dispose of the Communist implication, they cut loose from the international...