Word: workers
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With "Security to the Worker" as its slogan, the American Federation of Labor has launched another campaign to seize control of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, Matthew L. McGrath of the AFL disclosed yesterday...
That a sampling system is open to big error is apparent from the huge, 728,000-worker difference between the Census Bureau's two figures for January. That month, the Census Bureau tried a new system by increasing its sampling from 68 to 230 communities. It hoped for greater geographical representation, and it wanted to include new industries, e.g., electronics, which have grown up since the war. Since one of the two sampling systems must be wrong, most experts vote for the new system and the 3,087,000 figure. They argue that accuracy should increase through a greater...
...nervousness was justified. Within 48 hours, mild-looking Father Suarez had replaced three provincials of the order in France, exiled four other priests from the Paris area, and sternly cautioned the assembled monks to stop agitating for continuance of the worker-priest movement (ten worker-priests are Dominicans...
This purge produced a hubbub on the Catholic intellectual left that for a while drowned out the clamor over the worker-priests themselves. One Catholic review hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not obliged to believe that Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world...
...True?" At week's end, as Paris throbbed with meetings, arguments and suggested solutions, 31 worker-priests addressed a letter to Cardinal Feltin, Archbishop of Paris, protesting their loyalty but begging him "not to betray the missionary effort of France." Perusing this petition last week, an abbe called a visitor's attention to its opening words: "You know we have always recognized your authority as a bishop...