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...workingman is no longer welcome in many of our Protestant Churches, and the workingman clothed in rags has no place where he is welcome in any of the Protestant Churches. The reverse is true of the Catholic Church. No matter how lowly his position in the social scale, no matter how ragged he may be, the doors of this Church always stand open...
...proposals Mr. Bullard fails to touch the basic philosophy of labor--that the workingman shall receive a decent living wage and that the work shall be so spread as to give this to as many workers as possible. All the policies which he attacks--closed unions, restriction of output, closed shops--are simply means to this end. It cannot be denied that unions have achieved much for their members, nor can it be denied that the achievement has caused inconvenience and waste. The aim is just and proper; what is needed is not criticism and fear but understanding so that...
...books and whose "Forty Years in My Bookshop" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
...such education can be spread widely through the rank and file, industry may at last proceed by the rule of economic reason. Arbitration boards, wage-fixing commissions, cooperative movements will always be temporary expedients, and are now too often mere sops to stop the growls of the workingman. Reforms which are to be lasting must come from within, and the unions should, for their own self-respect, be allowed to act as their own doctors. If their college lives up to expectations, their best prescription would be the establishment of Brookwood scholarships...
...than a partly union and partly non-union working body. An ultimate organization of the producers is inevitable in the economic struggle which we are facing, and I believe it is equally inevitable that such an organization will win out. The power thus thrown into the hands of the workingman will necessarily create some difficulties, but none comparable to those we are now striving against. Prices would certainly not soar upwards as has been claimed--it is the middle man that controls that...