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...find their vines and fruit trees cut down. Hundreds of cattle lay dead. Tons of hay were ruined. The total damage over two months was estimated at more than $5,000,000. When the police tried to stop the violence, Communist Deputies in Rome complained about "government repression of working-class aspirations," and the police solved the problem by refusing to let even willing workers go to work...
...only a handful of students can ever work their way through college. Of 150,000 university students in France, only 25,000 have government scholarships of about $28.50 a month. Since the average student's rent takes about $23, the scholarship leaves only a pittance for food, clothing and books. The fact is, says Etienne MacRay, secretary of the national student union, "unless a student has wealthy parents, he is forced to go hungry much of the time. This explains why, out of 1,000 students, only 32 are of working-class parents." Meanwhile, partly because of lack...
...year-old priest felt more like a benighted missionary than ever. Though there was virtually no unemployment and the wine industry was flourishing, Gaggio di Piano gave the Christian Democrats only 161 votes against 1,020 for the Communist Party. Don Giuseppe decided that what he needed was a working-class appeal. He began buttonholing members of his infidel flock and telling them: "The essence of Christianity is work-material as well as spiritual. Why, Christ himself was a worker for 30 of his 33 years." Somewhat to his surprise, a few of the infidels listened...
...federal district governor, the Presi-'dent picked a veteran Alemánista, but built such a fire under him that the old wheelhorse leaped like an apocalyptic charger against price-gouging movie exhibitors, police-protected brothels and unsightly sidewalk peddlers, then went frantically to work repairing street drains in flood-plagued working-class districts...
There are plenty of rich Episcopalians in Bishop Pardue's Pittsburgh diocese, but he doesn't budget much of his time and driving energy for such estate-studded parishes as Sewickley and Ligonier Valley. The 43 industrial missions and a dozen churches in working-class districts get most of his concern, and the result is a growing kind of ministry that in his opinion has been all too rare in the Episcopal Church. "We in the church," he says, "have concentrated on the Gay Nineties type of missionary work. We worried about the people in the middle...