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TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928.
CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORKMAN.
CATHOLIC ACTIVITIES IN CHINA,
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These words wero addressed to the whole Church and to the whole world, and their influence has ainco been ovident
throughout Europe. The result has boon to croato, or Koster, a general Catholic labour movement in every country, with the object of taking effective means to relieve the oppression of the modern commercial systom, to improve the social position On Sunday evening, before larga attendance of members of of this working clasma, to unite thera for their common good, and to propare the Chinese Catholic Young Men's them by education for the straggle Society, Caine Rend, Mr. W. G. for their rights, In Germany, Fitz-Gibbon, B.A., delivered a most Switzerland, Italy, France, Belgium, Instructive and interesting address England and the United States the on the long struggle of the Catholld labour movement is to-day Christian Church for the in- well organized, and its development. Усате has bem remark- provement of the condition of the during
Catholla Iabouret
Lordship Bishop Valtorta,
{able, conto Mett's Society and the Cathor Pau
Among thone present was His Guild have done and are doing splen did work, and a Cathalle Workmen' College has been founded at Oxford to train young Catholic workmen to labour movement.
Mr. Fitz-Gibbon, who was intro duced by the President of the take their places as leaders in the Society, Mr. Edword Tad Chak wan, dealt at length with historical aspects of the question, and con- cluded:
Its Work in China.
In China, where there is Catholic population of over a quarter millions, little or torn and a Catholle Labour Movement.
nothing appears to have been done to- In the midst of all the porplexity wards the formation of a purely and the seemingly impotent efforts to Catholic labour drganization. With a arrive at a solution, what has the chinese membership about three times Catholic Church done to improve the that of all the other Christian bodies lot of the workman? As she is in Chinn together, the Catholic Church Catholic, and flourishes under every would appear to be in a particularly form of government, so she accepts advantageous position to exercise
the Chinese the existing industrial arrangements powerful influence on
the in all countries, condemning where labour movement, gulding it on
and discretion and they diverge from the principles of path of prudence and
and the justice and extending her sympathy couselling against violence and
and and active influence to mitigate the destructive doctrines of Russian hardships of any "system. You have other agitators. The natural all probably rend at one time or an- for the Chinese labour movement are other the celebrated encyclical,Shanghai and Canton: in the former Herum Novrum, on the condition of city, with its huge Catholic population, the working classes, which there are many thousands of Catholic was issued in 1891 by Pope Loo workmen. Some have probably Xill, au encyclical devoted entirely ceived a good English education. Is to the labour question. The contents too much to hope for that we may of this encyclical are well known, and yet see some of these men sent abroad have commanded the attention and under the auspices of a Catholic respect of the world. The Holy Social Guild of China-for Father defined therein the duties and in Social Science at the Catholic responsibilities of employers and Worlanen's College nt Oxford and workinen, and his thorough grasp of similar institutions in other countries!
Thus we see that as in the begia the difficulties of the situation and his
to
contres
re-
bympathy for the labourers were ning the Catholic Church was the re- | throughout "But all agreed" fuge of the oppressed and the protes-
no lor of labour; as he
sho fought be no
slavery wrote, "and thero can
determination but
with question whatever, that some remedy with
prudence
counselling against any at- must be found, and quickly found for
Kuari
the misery and wretchedness which tempt at violent change, so with the press so heavily at this moment on same purpose and the same counsel of the large majority of the very poor. prudence she has to-day set herself to The
while workmen's gilds were combat the present evils, ancient
destruction the destroyed in the last century, and no ing against the uthor organization took their place. complex and delicate machinery of Public institutions and the laws have commerce. We know that she has the tho ancient religion. power to control the chief cauNES repudiated Henco
by degrees it has come to paes of all labour troubles the greed of that working men have been given the capitalists
Excited ever, isolated and defenceless, to the passions of the workmen because by callousness of
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ovil kas
been
Increased by that wonderful influence which God rapacions usury, which, although more has entrusted to her over the human than once condemned by the Church, heart. The master knows that she
different bound Lo le, nevertheless, under.
of the principles justice, form but with the same grasping she has a powerful claim on the con gullt, still while, from the records of the past, practised by avaricious and.
fidence of the workman. When ho men. And to thig must be added custom of working by contract, and was a slave she took him to her bosom the concentration of so many branches and nursed him into full free man- nf trade in the hands of a few in- hood: when he was a serf she, in the dividuals, so that a small number of person of her monks, worked beside very rich, men have been able to lay him in the fields, wore the rough upon the masses of the very poor clothes that he wore, cheered him in yoke little better than slavery itaclf." his toil, cared for him and fed him
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when he was sick and needy, and always so strikingly a part. Through ultimately won for him his freedom: his centuries of struggle she has when he was a craftsman she taught been his friend and his champion, and him how to combine for a common to-day the wonderful world-wide purpose in gilds which took the con- activity of her labour organizations stitution of the religious gilds for a shows that the fight for his welfare is model and of which religion was Jatill for her a labour of love,
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