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The Laity Issue Organizing the Faithful A Report from the Trenches John C. Cort tm q~ e,q O 8 T he Archdiocese of Boston, where my wife and I live, famously suffered frolYl sexual abuse...

Rest in Peace (August 2004)

LAST WRONGS THE INAUGURAL SARAH SMITH CONFERENCE ON MORAL LEADERSHIP: Caring for the Dead Your Final Act of Love Lisa Carlson Rest in Peace A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home...

Calling retreat (November 2001)

THE LAST WORD CALLING RETREAT John C. Cort Anyone who is old enough may remember how Robert Hutchins and Mortimer Adler were raising all kinds of academic hell at the University of Chicago...

Organized Labor and the Church/The CIO's Left-Led Unions: (August 1993)

for you at 4....1 have wanted to see you "The world will thank me for not mar- two-pronged appeal to put our own house for a long time but...." She went, and it rying you,"...

Holy Siege (November 1992)

career he forged a synthesis of Weberian sociology and Heideggerian phenomen- ology (h la Alfred Schutz) that has pro- vided continuing inspiration for his own work and that of an entire generation...

An Alley in Chicago/Geno/The Last Priests in America (December 1991)

INDELIBLY MARKED AN ALLEY IN CHICAGO The Ministry of a City Priest Margery Frisbie Sheed & Ward, $13.95, 298 pp. GEN0 The Life and Mission of Geno Baroni Lawrence M. O'Rourke Paulist Press,...

In Pursuit of the Kingdom (October 1991)

BISHOP, PREACHER, POET IN PURSUIT OF THE KINGDOM Writings 1968-1988 Pedro Casald~iliga Orbis Books, $14.95,254 pp. John C. Cort _9 ishop Casaldfiliga will D never be elected pope, but it...

Correspondence (September 1988)

CORRESPONDENCE Remembering 'Humanae vitae' READERS RESPOND Felix culpa Bayside, N.Y. To the Editors: After Humanae vitae, no one can underestimate or trivialize the often enormous anguish of...

Christians & the class struggle (July 1986)

debt is unpayable, as even De la Madrid cabinet members credit suspension, Mexico only stands to gain by halting the privately acknowledge. The only question is whether default...

Faith & economics: comments from sixty years (November 1984)

Comments from sixty years 'NORMALCY' & ITS DISCONTENTS T !O SOME PEOPLE man is a machine, and man is no more than a branch of physics. To other people man is an animal --mere!y-and economics,...

Dorothy Day (September 1982)

Books: IN A TINE OF GIGANTIC EVIL THIS is a valuable book, a much better book than A Harsh and Dreadful Love, William Miller's first attempt to capture the life, mind, and spirit of Dorothy Day and...

The marvels of Mondragon (June 1982)

MAKING WAGE-EARNERS PARTNERS The marvels of Mondragon JOHN C. CORT NOTHING IS MORE embarrassing to the journalistic mind than the taint of gullibility. Nevertheless, one day recently, as I sat in...

How the females put an end to male oppression (July 1981)

JOHN C. CORT '' What I find oppressive is the fact that a faction of this family is doing the bulk of the domestic work and a few individuals have removed .themselves completely from this domestic...

Science, faith & future (September 1979)

bloodshed to face the more "normal" hardships of a backward "democratic," and "sustainable" is the newest term, arising economy. It is, unfortunately, too soon to tell. It is not...

ANOTHER ROUND (July 1978)

CHRISTIAN-MARXIST DIALOGUE ANOTHER B O UND It might have worked out better if William Luther White, speaking in a workshop toward the end of the conference, had made his point at one of the...

TIME FOR STOCK-TAKING (April 1977)

morality as something that governs the conduct of the person professing the morality, even if he happens to be a chief of state, who knows, he may get around to halling the CIA's reading of our...

WHY I BECAME A SOCIALIST (March 1976)

WHY I BECAME A SOCIALIST JOHN C. CORT "I have always been inclined to take the papal encyclicals seriously' In The Brothers Karamazov there is a character named Miusov who quotes a French police...

CORRESPONDENCE: (April 1975)

CORRESPONDENCE Black-White Boston Bronx, N.Y. To the Editors: I read with aggravated interest John C. Cort's article "Black and White in Boston" [Jan. 31]. Although much of his reportage is...

THE CARDINAL CRIED RED (January 1975)

THE CARDINAL CRIED RED JOHN C. CORT One cemetery strike recalls another Those who are old enough to remember the Great Catholic Cemetery Strike of 1949 will be relieved to know that it is...

Labor's Love Lost (November 1974)

BOOKS LABOR'S LOVE LOST JOHN C. CORT American Labor: A P i c t o r i a l Social H i s t o r y M. B. SCHNAPPER Public Affairs Press, $15 Blacks in the I n d u s t r i a l World THEODORE V....

PEOPLE FOR WORKERS' CONTROL: (February 1974)

PEOPLE FOR WORKERS' CONTROL JOHN C. CORT Extending democracy to the work place I threaded my way down the corridor, through the beards and past the tables piled high with radical literature,...

BOOKS (August 1973)

Peking. Benson once wrote an unsuccessful story using the Boxer Rebellion and there are obvious parallels. He sets out to write a Boxer Rebellion novel that will restore his confidence and...

DOROTHY DAY AT 75 (February 1973)

T he year was 1936. The place was a meeting of the Central Labor Union of New York City packed with delegates from AFL locals. The chair- man was Joe Ryan, head of the long- shoremen's union, who...

BOOKS (October 1972)

BOOKS The England that the tourists do not know City Close-I/p JEREMY SEABROOK Bobbs-Merrill, $7.95 WILLIAM LAIVOIETTE Tourists don't visit Blackburn. It has no cathedral or stately homes or...

ADLAI STEVENSON (August 1965)

_9 0 _9 More than etoquence ADLAI STEVENSON 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 JOHN C. CORT 0 _9 0 This was a night to remember. It was two or three o'clock in the morning. The family had long since...

Memories of Peter Maurin (January 1960)

Old clothes, rugged face and Bgure, and a holy fervor Memories of Peter Maurin by JOHN C. CORT FIRST met Peter Maurin in July of 1936, down at the Catholic Worker headquarters on Mott Street...

Case for Discontent (January 1960)

Have the battles of the thirties really been won? Case for Discontent by JOHN C. CORT A NYONE who knows anything about Catholi- cism in America knows that there are within it at least two...

III The Challenge of the Specific (October 1959)

ill-The Challenge of the Specific Criticism of the United Nations by ,~ ROBERT E. LUCEY T EN years after the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations, the fundamental facts of...

Turning Back the Clock (October 1959)

If ever a company asked for a strike, it was the mill in Henderson, North Carolina Turning Back the Clock By JOHN C. CORT N ORTH CAROLINA is generally regarded as one of the more liberal of...

My First Hurrah (November 1958)

My First Hurrah by JOHN C. CORT I'VE LEARNED what it feels like to run for public office. There was the day early in the campaign when I went down to Goodenough Street to find a friend. I had the...

Labor's Glass House (April 1958)

The A.F.L.-C.I.O. response to attempts to form an organizers' union added injury to insult Labor's Glass House by JOHN C. CORT T HE ACID TEST of sincerity for all guardians of pubh,'c and...

Creeping Capitalism (February 1958)

teenth century has by now become a bastion of the Church Universal. Generally speaking, liberals have a great advantage; time does march on. If they choose their issues carefully, they will still...

Expulsion of the Teamsters (January 1958)

Neither the defense of Catholicism nor the support of a particular political position could justify the irresponsible attacks which forced the university .to withdraw courtesies from Father...

Goodbye, Teamsters (December 1957)

I T IS NOT easy to criticize anything as uniquely worthy and important as the conference at Tioumliline. Still, it was not perfect. One was left wondering, for example, if the theme of the...

Hoffa and the Teamsters (September 1957)

CRUCIAL DECISION Hoffa and the Teamsters JOHN C CORT IT IS ALMOST impossible to write about labor these days without mentioning the name of Jimmy Hoffa. So why fight it? Why try to ignore the...

Memories of the Thirties (August 1957)

Memories of the Thirties JOHN C. CORT AS I REMEMBER New York, summer there is a time when life goes on pretty much as usual, except that you act it out as in an oven roasting. Of course you...

Frustration on the Farm (July 1957)

394 AGRICULTURAL WORKERS Frustration on the Farm JOHN C. CORT THE ONLY TIME I ever saw Ernesto Galarza was at the Catholic Social Action Conference last year in New Orleans. Between the acts,...

Alarums and Excursions (June 1957)

Alarums and Excursions JOHN C CORT PERHAPS THE TITLE for this piece should be "The Protestant Plan for American Catholics." Then Protestants might see the article and think: "Now that isn't a very...

Spotlight on Labor (May 1957)

Spotlight on Labor JOHN C CORT IF YOU HAVE heard any loud thuds lately, it was probably just Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa, hitting the canvas in the first round of the McClellan Committee's...

Catholics and Social Justice (April 1957)

THEORY AND PRACTICE Catholics and Social Justice JOHN C CORT BACK IN 1939 I was incarcerated in a Catholic TB sanatorium in the New York area. The cure of tuberculosis is a long-term business and...

Labor Makes a Choice (September 1956)

PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT Labor Makes a Choice JOHN C. CORT I REMEMBER a friend of mine, a CIO organizer, saying to me last year before the AFL-CIO merger, "I don't like this merger business....

Right-to-Work Laws (August 1956)

CATHOLIC VIEWS Right-To-Work Laws JOHN C. CORT THE CONTROVERSY over "right-to-work" laws, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, will not die. Last month the Louisiana Senate and House...

Stresses and Strains (June 1956)

INSIDE LABOR Stresses and Strains JOHN C. CORT T HE MARRIAGE of the AFL and CIO took place last December 5th. On June 4th, in Washington, President Eisenhower blessed the couple's new home by...

Progress Report (May 1956)

SOCIAL ENCYCLICALS Progress Report JOHN C. CORT IN 1891 it was considered revolutionary for the head of the Catholic Church, which, at least in Europe, was generally supposed to be an ally...

History in the Making (December 1955)

THE MERGER History in the Making JOHN C. CORT A T roughly ten o'clock on the morning of Monday, December 5, 1955, George Meany and Walter Reuther together seized a massive gavel, brought it...

Voices from the Philippines (December 1955)

LABOR ABROAD Voices from the Philippines T HERE were six of them and among them you could see examples of most of the racial strains that make up the Filipino native: Malayan, Indonesian,...

Testing a New Technique (November 1955)

LABOR LEADERS Testing a New Technique A LITTLE over a year ago the Catholic Labor Guild of Boston tried a new technique in bringing the teachings of the Church to the workers. It organized...

Liturgy and the Layman (September 1955)

LITURGICAL WEEK Liturgy and The Layman T HE story is that Cardinal Gasquet once asked one of his priests, "What is the position of the layman in Catholic life?" The priest replied, "The layman...

Indian at a Summer School (August 1955)

AS OTHERS SEE US Indian at a Summer School H E was a small, slight man even for an Indian. When he smiled, which he could do with a good deal of charm, his teeth showed white and even and with...

To Own or Not to Own (July 1955)

GUARANTEED WAGE To Own or Not to Own T HE brief encounter between Henry Ford II and Walter Reuther during the negotiations for a guaranteed annual wage was one of the most significant and...

The Dice Are Slightly Loaded (June 1955)

MINORITY RULE The Dice Are Slightly Loaded D ID you know that eighteen Senators represent one-half of the American population and seventy-eight Senators represent the other half? I'll bet you...

Guaranteeing the Worker's Pay (May 1955)

ANNUAL WAGE Guaranteeing The Worker's Pay I CAN'T remember when any union negotiations have aroused more interest than the current sessions between the United Auto Workers and the two giants...

The Battle over "Right-to-Work" (April 1955)

LABOR The Bottle Over "Right-to-Work" A FEW weeks ago a "right-to-work" bill was considered by a committee of the Massachusetts legislature. Father Francis McDonnell, chaplain of the...

Labor's House United (March 1955)

THE MERGER Labor's House United T HE story is that Walter Reuther did not want to go to Miami Beach. All his life he had been avoiding the place. To him the idea of labor leaders' meeting in a...

Incident on the Manila Waterfront (February 1955)

AMERICANS ABROAD Incident on the Manila Waterfront L AST December 4th two Americans--in the Philippines as labor advisors to the University of the Philippines--drove down to the...

The Last CIO Convention? (January 1955)

LABOR UNITY The Last ClO Convention? THE reaction of John L. Lewis to the brightening prospect of merger between the AFL and CIO was pungently expressed in his paper, the Mine Workers"...

Capitalism: Debates and Definitions (November 1954)

FOR OR AGAINST? Capitalism: Debates And Definitions T HE Catholic Worker has always been able to get a rise out of me. Now I see, in the October issue, where all of a sudden I'm "for...

News from Two Fronts (October 1954)

LABOR UNITY News from Two Fronts I T isn't often that you get two shipments of good news on the same day. But on the same day the papers reported from the AFL convention in Los Angeles and the...

A Man Going Blind (October 1954)

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION A Man Going Blind H E was a young man, about thirty, of pleasant, unassuming appearance and a soft voice that carried a French Canadian accent. He had the unusual name...

Around the Convention Circuit (September 1954)

LABOR & LAYMEN Around the Convention Circuit F OR about the first fifty miles Joe Dever was singing, "When the moon heets your eye like a beeg pizza pie, that's amore.'" But after that...

The End of the Testy Titans? (July 1954)

LABOR UNITY The End of the Testy Titans? S EVERAL months ago I wrote in these columns: "The decision of the executive board of the AFL Teamsters' Union (alias Dave Beck) not to sign the...

The Hidden Seeds of Corruption (June 1954)

WATERFRONT ELECTION The Hidden Seeds Of Corruption W E were eating spaghetti one night in a restaurant in the Little Italy section of the Lower East Side of New York. The meal was...

Starch for the White Collars (May 1954)

COST OF SNOBBERY Starch for the White Collars I T seems that two young women met on the street and one said to the other, "Congratulations! I hear you're engaged." (If this were a man...

From Small Groups a Big Movement (May 1954)

SEE, JUDGE, ACT From Small Groups A Big Movement L AST December a YCW chaplain in India wrote to a friend in England, and the friend gave the letter to a friend, who gave it to me. I...

Side by Side with the Unions (March 1954)

precisely there he received the least and weakest re- THE LABOR MOVEMENT sponse. Side by Side T HE fact is inescapable that...

Unionism: Hard and Soft (January 1954)

the formidability of Israel plus Israel's friends in the West is very real to them. After all, they ask, what reason in the world do they have to trust the West7 "Look at our historyl"...

The Durkin Experiment (October 1953)

Sit This One Out? ALL THE KING'S HORSES AND ALL THE KING'S MEN COULD NOT DIVERT THE WORLD FROM THE COURSE WHICH HAS BROUGHT IT TO ITS PRESENT...

Big Bill Rides Again (September 1953)

their functional value and importance in the past, and for particular individuals in the present, is not necessarily to be religious. Indeed such interest in study may possibly prove an...

Unity in the Making (August 1953)

of time, because they have apostatized from the essence of Christianity, which is sovereignty and freedom, i.e. the stand above time and space which alone promises the mastery of history. The...

The Hearn's Strike (July 1953)

feelings, that she did not hesitate to compare her earllor social tragedies with her later sufferings. She remembered that as a rich wife she had played with tl~ horrifying thought that she...

Before You Walk, You Crawl (July 1953)

tian Democrats is possible if not probable. On the other hand, if they do not, the Nenni Socialists might in the end be joined by the Social Democrats, who lost heavily owing to their...

An Uncertain Courtship (May 1953)

some modification will now be necessary.) "Will you to your power cause law and justice, in mercy, to be executed in all your judgements? . . . . Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the...

A Man from India (May 1953)

"liberals" profess to regard as the cornerstone of democracy. Catholics have accepted the situation which forces them to pay double for their children's education with fairly good grace,...

Amending Taft-Hartley (April 1953)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Amending Taft- Hartley r comes a time in the life of every labor necessary write l columnist when he finds it to about the Taft-Hartley Act. This seems to be such a time...

A Delayed Hotfoot for Joe Ryan (February 1953)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT A Delayed Hotfoot for Joe Ryan GENE Sampson told me once, "Don't sell Joe Ryan short. He's a cutie." It turned out that Sampson himself was cuter than any of us supposed. He...

Prudence and the Pickets (February 1953)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Prudence and the Pickets T HE city of Denver, Colorado, is still recovering from the effects of a bitter six-week strike in the city's supermarkets. This strike involved a...

The Docks: Cops and Robbery (January 1953)

how erase their Jewish identity, the end will be extinc- tion. This is be~nning to be sensed by the Jews behind the Iron Curtain; the wave of suicides reported among Jews in Czechoslovakia and...

New Men for New Times (December 1952)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT New Men for New Times THE other day I heard a labor leader telling a union convention that he thought Phil Murray and Bill Green died of broken hearts because of the...

The Passing of an Era (November 1952)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Passing of an Era ON the day after the election, the Daily Herald, organ of the British Labor Party, said in reference to the Republican victory: "All liberal and...

The Charms of Anarchism (November 1952)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Charms of Anarchism OUR house has just been honored by a visit from Ammon Hennacy, the Christian anarchist who seems to be on his way into the Catholic Church. We had...

Mr. Lewis Makes the Gesture (October 1952)

12 Mr. Lewis Makes the Gesture ABE RASKIN had a good line in the N. Y. Times of Sept. 21. He wrote: "The dove of labor peace made a jet-propelled flight through the grand ballroom of the Commodore...

Good Guys and Bad Guys (September 1952)

wooded ravine and on a bare, brown hill opposite stood a lone isolated house surrounded by a few trees, and some of the men went up there and stole whatever they could. At Palaia I saw one of the...

Murray, Fairless and the Future (September 1952)

which was so particularly wanting. The Crowe memorandum of 1907 and the "X" article of 1947 are truly remarkable documents and have already achieved the distinction of those classic writings which...

Stevenson: the New Approach (August 1952)

be protected in their right to vote for the Democratic candidate under the Democratic label. He foresaw an attempt to put Eisenhower under the Democratic label. And he, as all of us did, looked back...

Freedom and the Union Shop (July 1952)

union shop is involved at all in this fight. What the CIO Steelworkers are now asking is about the mildest form of union shop one could devise and still keep the name. It provides that none of the...

Steel and the Just Profit (July 1952)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Steel and The Just Profit IN the May 2 issue of The Commonweal I accused the steel companies of "conning the American public with phony profit figures to create the impression...

Baldanzi Leaps Over the Wall (June 1952)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Baldanzi Leaps Over the Wall T HE first and last time I heard George Baldanzi speak was at the CIO Textile Workers convention in New York in 1939 or '40. It was not an exciting...

The Church and the Steel Crisis (May 1952)

rather to liberate that capacity in the service of God rather than of self. A balanced view of man will recognize the necessity for institutional checks upon the abuse of power, the necessity for...

The Case for the Steelworkers (May 1952)

which would change its entire character and at the same time establish Bevan as the theoretician of the new British socialism. "In so far as I can be said to have had a political training at all,"...

The Catholic Worker and the Workers (April 1952)

i~ when they look b~k to ~ e past before finally committing themselves ~ ,the newer ways. This is what is going on today in Japanese culture. People ,have become more discerning in their...

The Case of the Agnostic Teacher (March 1952)

fttmish a nucleus rotmd w~fich the potential an~ti-Amerlcan legion may gaflmr, with the corn:fades boring ~rom ~i,thln it. B.r~tain is still hostile to Corrma,unism, and fairly vigorously...

Textile's Flight to the South (February 1952)

to avoid shoddng ,vahe most ,ten~der-minded oouven~t-school girl. The greatest of all Cal~holJic novelists, in my estimation~Sigrid U~dset--~is still neglected by 'Catholics, n.~t so 'much...

Insurance Agents on Strike (February 1952)

th.e ab.sen,ce of th'e Sa:cram~er~ts, ,theirs was a living fa.ilrh, and daily Ma,s,s succeeded in bringing together l:he hi.tile comm, un,i~ty wh~i~h l~ad been sca,ttered. Bu;t we were...

Life and Death in the Mines (January 1952)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Life and Death In the Mines T HE person,ality of Ceci,1 Sanders appeals to me. Sanders is .the only su.rvivor of *he explosion in Oriea~t Mine No. 2 at West Frankfort,...

Dirt on the Waterfront II (December 1951)

A. S. Makarenko, insists, in his book ,'ldvice to Fathers and Mothers, upon the authority o,f the family father, on the solidity of the f~mily itself and on the necessity of keeping the children...

Dirt on the Waterfront (November 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Dirt on the Waterfront I HAD to laugh the other day. I read a piece by Murray Kempton, the bright young t~,bor columnist of the New York Post, that brot~ght back...

In Defense of Philip Murray (October 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT In Defense of Philip Murray I REMEMBER hearing P.hilip Murray speak at a convention of the Transport Workers in Madison Square Garden back about I94o. Sitting at the press...

Half Slave and Half Free (October 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Half Slave and Half Free them out with a hundred delayir~g actions arrd TaftH.artley techrfiea~ifies until their members lind d, rilfted away in sheer boredom. The strike...

The Break Between the AFL and CIO (September 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Break Between the AFL and CIO HENRY C. FLEISHER, editor of the CIO News, has written an interesting piece in that paper on the break between the afl and CIO. The break...

Alone Together in a Closed Shop (September 1951)

Alone Together in a Closed Shop IN THE past few weeks itwo friends have seat me a pair of documents that fire solemn broadsides at the specter of union monopoly. One is an article by Donald R....

Take Me Away from the Ball Game (August 1951)

Take Me Away from the Ball Game YEARS ago the Daily Worker had no sports section. At that time the Party line was pretty stern about comrades who wasted time that could be more profitably...

In the Light of an Explosion (August 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT In the Light of an Explosion MOST of us go through life carefully shielding our eyes from our own dismal little sins. But every now and tlhen an explosion occurs, and in the...

The Labor Movement (August 1951)

Christian Unions; New Labor Paper IN ITALY the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions recently closed its second world congress at Milan. Delegates from 60 countries,...

Lay Apostles in the Field (July 1951)

Lay Apostles in the Field I JUST got back from Pittsburgh, where the Newspaper Guild, cio, held its annual convention. It was the union's 18th convention, but my first. When it was over I was proud...

Partnership: A New Approach (July 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Partnership: A New Approach LAST WEEK another daily newspaper died. This time it was the St. Louis Star-Times. A few months back the Hearst paper in Oakland, Cal., folded...

The Message of Dean Manion (June 1951)

The Message of Dean Manion THERE WAS this letter from a priest-teacher. It said: "Tonight I am reading The Key to Peace by Manion. It is burning me to a crisp. . . . What irks me more is...

Farmers Without Farms (June 1951)

Farmers Without Farms THERE are few legends of American folklore that have died harder than the legend of the American farmer. According to the popular belief, all American farmers are sturdy...

After Sixty Years (May 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Appeals JACQUES MARITAIN informs us that Veronique, the eldest daughter of the Frenah Catholic writer Leon Bloy, is now seriously ill and in urgent need of material support....

Crime and Big Business (April 1951)

Crime and Big Business THE MILLIONS of Americans who sat transfixed before their television sets watching the Kefauver hearings were doubtless impelled by many motives to neglect their work,...

The Price of Dedication (April 1951)

The Price of Dedication THERE are union members who are so only in name. They belong to the union because it is the thing to do, or because it seems like good job insurance, or because...

Wages and Big-Family Men (March 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Wages and Big-Family Men IT'S funny how you can go along year after year familiar with an idea, and more or less approving it, but not really grasping it, not really feeling the...

The Catholic Press (February 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Catholic Press WE CATHOLICS like to console ourselves with the thought that here in America the Church has sprung from the poor and underprivileged. "Look," we tell anyone who...

Unions in the South (February 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT Unions in the South WHAT is the matter with the South? And what can be done about it ? The 82nd Congress met on January 3rd and within four hours it had given us an example of...

The Menace of the Guest Speaker (January 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The Menace of the Guest Speaker A FEW weeks ago I went through a shattering experience: I was a delegate to the Massachusetts state CIO convention. At the opening session a...

O Come, All Ye Faithful (January 1951)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT 0 Come, All Ye Faithful "THE great scandal of the 19th century was that the Church lost the working class." These words of Pius XI are quoted and requoted, but here in America we...

The CIO on Public Owmership (December 1950)

THE LABOR MOVEMENT The CIO on Public Ownership THE Chicago convention of the CIO must have seemed to the men at the press table like a dull and lifeless thing by contrast with the CIO conventions of...

Catholics and Liberals (June 1950)

FROM A CATHOLIC VIEWPOINT: Catholics and Liberals We have no choice but to be liberal —in the true meaning of the word. By JOHN C CORT WHEN you use the words "Catholics and Liberals" you imply...

The Labor Movement (March 1950)

604 THE COMMONWEAL March 1'7, 19So man in the days of Louis XIV. There is nothing completely, but he...

The Labor Movement (March 1950)

556 THE COMMONWEAL March 3, 1950 Harvard. Lewis did not...

The Labor Movement (February 1950)

sob THE COMMONWEAL February 17, 1950 pears on every page of the Gospel goes on even today throughout the world. There is an...

The Labor Movement (February 1950)

462 THE COMMONWEAL February 3, 1950 officials in this...

The Labor Movement (January 1950)

January 20, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 413 radio makers, makers of optic instruments, elec- here once more is that this outline...

The Labor Movement (January 1950)

January 6, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 363 of foreign capital from almost every country- Even the...

The Labor Movement (December 1949)

316 THE COMMONWEAL December 23, 1949 begin "in the early thirties" but in the early twenties; No Catholic can deny the...

The Labor Movement (December 1949)

December 16, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 291 resentative leaders of all groups-aged, blind, labor, business, educational,...

The Labor Movement (November 1949)

November 2b, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 211 T Rieve, Baldanzi,...

The Labor Movement (November 1949)

November 11, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 1bb the project. We had only sixteen days in which anti-democratic, they meant that...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (October 1949)

12 THE COMMONWEAL October 14, 1949 Europe. If no compromise on education can be ready seen the rug pulled...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (September 1949)

September 3 o, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 603 without any specific ideology and thus become an "estate" (an ordo to use the term of the Encyclical). For the vast majority of Austrian workers who do...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (September 1949)

558 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1949 The Labor Movement Taking Issue with Mr. Benvenisti I N THE August 26 issue of THE COMMONWEAL, J. L. Benvenisti has contributed another of his...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (September 1949)

September 2, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 509 uel Goldwyn's good production of "'Roseanna McCoy" is that it treats its hillbillies as people with a certain amount of dignity and not as characters in a...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (August 1949)

46z THE COMMONWEAL .Augu~ 19, t949 said to ,all that only a man who was not a Frenchman could have forgotten logic so far as to have accepted an official Nazi post in Paris of all places, when...

The Labor Movement (May 1949)

May 13, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL I I 9 The Labor Movement A Union Debate on The Nation T HE HALL was packed. The debate went along in orderly fashion. In fact, the c~airman, as 'he admitted later,...

The Labor Movement (April 1949)

66 THE COMMONWEAL April 29, r949 or is it imagination, or cowardice, or grace ? I sit often there before the Lord, and look at Him questioningly. A T ANY RATE I must let myself go thoroughly,...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (April 1949)

Apr~ I5, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 13 The Labor Movement The AFL and Reuther's Housing Program L AST YEAR, when Walter Reuther ran into a blast of buckshot that almost blew off his arm, there were...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1949)

5i8 THE COMMONWEAL March 4, I949 The Labor Movement Social Action in Latin America A LTHOUGH there is a lot of talk about the unity of the Western Hemisphere, the Good Neighbor Policy, the...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (February 1949)

February I8, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 471 The Labor Movement The Calvary Cemetery Strike O N January 13 some 250 workers at Calvary Cemetery in New York City, members of Local 293, United Cemetery...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (February 1949)

February 4, x949 THE COM in contrast to Dr. Marx, is inclined to think that the Hoover philosophy (using the term in an impersonal sense) will be judged to have had a lot to do with preparing...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (December 1948)

December 17, 1948 THE COMMONWEAL Until recently, the sentence of a living death in a leper colony could not be reprieved; only the holy imi- tators of Father Damien and the nuns who assisted them,...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (November 1948)

174 THE COMMONWEAL November '~6, 1948 tively in his extremely important book, "Government Regulation of Industrial Relations," the outstanding characteristic of the Taft-Hartley Act is that, in...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (November 1948)

xI6 THE COMMONWEAL November 12, 1948 a contribution in the effort to create a Christian atmos-phere at least in some strata of the Rhenish popula-tion, although I fear that Christianity is...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (October 1948)

6o THE COMMONWEAL October 29, 1948 The Labor Movement Is a Christian Industrialism Possible? A FEW COLUMNS back I went briefly into the question raised by Eric Gill in England and by the...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (October 1948)

x4 THE COMMONWEAL October I5, I948 won from his evil ways by the beauty and kindness of a California widow (Joan Caulfield). Unfortunately, this movie has a relation to reality only when the real...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (October 1948)

The Labor Movement Reform Begins at the Plant Level THERE has been talk the last few years about the Industry Council Plan and how it is a good prac-tical application of the "vocational group"...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (September 1948)

The Labor Movement Life Catches Up with Mother Bell LAST SPRING, before the United Auto Workers broke through the big business front with a third-round increase at General Motors, the American...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (September 1948)

The Labor Movement The Split in Italian Labor THIS will probably be another example of a stupid American writing dogmatically on things about which he knows little or nothing. Nevertheless, and...

LABOR AND THE ELECTIONS (August 1948)

Labor and the Elections John C. Cort IT MIGHT be said of the labor vote that it is like happiness: everybody is looking for it, but few can define it. Is it the vote of our 60,000,000 jobholders?...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (July 1948)

The Labor Movement Taft-Hartley and the Waterfront THE limitations of Messrs. Taft and Hartley are nowhere better dramatized than in the impasse that has now developed on our waterfront. Although...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (June 1948)

The Labor Movement BUSINESS IS GETTING TOUGH AS THIS is written 75,000 workers are completing the first week of their strike against the Chrysler Corporation. This test of strength may be crucial...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (May 1948)

The Screen No Run of No Mill USUALLY the high-brow movie-goers are pretty lucky in getting fare that appeals to the intellect as well as the eye; whether they are that lucky in this new batch of...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (April 1948)

The Labor Movement Wall Street Strike SINCE March 29 over 1,000 men and women have been on strike at the Stock and Curb Exchanges in New York City. (Unless, please God, it has been settled before...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1948)

567 The Labor Movement A Plea for Economists TWO MEMBERS of the American hierarchy, Bishop Francis J. Haas of Grand Rapids, and Bishop Karl J. Alter of Toledo, have recently called again for...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (February 1948)

496 The Labor Movement The Wagner Act Still Lives IT MAY be comforting to know that the Taft-Hartley Act has not entirely destroyed the Wagner Act. There are a few edible chunks of the latter...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (January 1948)

400 The Labor Movement Things Are Clearer and Hotter HENRY WALLACE is by no means the clearest thinker in the world, but in spite of himself he is clarifying issues all over the place, and...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (January 1948)

351 The Labor Movement Wallace and the Unions THIS is the season for skating parties and the playing of Snap-the-Whip. In Snap-the-Whip a number of skaters hold hands and skate off in single...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (January 1948)

The Labor Movement Who Will Be Right? THE National Association of Manufacturers has just held its annual congress in New York City, and an anxious world can now resume its prayers with...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (December 1947)

228 The Labor Movement Truman and the Unions THE REACTION of American labor to President Truman's program for the special session of Congress is, in general, a favorable one. And if Truman...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (November 1947)

176 The Labor Movement The Meaning of the UAW Victory IT IS ALMOST impossible to exaggerate the importance of the sweeping victory won by Walter Reuther at the convention of the United Auto...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (November 1947)

The Labor Movement The AFL Puts on a Fight NO ONE would have dreamed it a few years ago, but things have reached the point where a convention of the afl has more drama, more conflict to...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (October 1947)

October I7, I94 7 THE COMMONWEAL I7 The Quick and the Dead y OU MAY wonder as I did, when you see "'Magic Town, why a public opinion gatherer hasn't been the hero of a movie before this. His...

THE LA~BOR MOVEMEMT (October 1947)

October io, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 625 wrote another one, a mighty deep book, called "The So now you...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (September 1947)

September 5, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 503 obviously fear, and perhaps secretly admire him, but if pleasantly,...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (August 1947)

August 22, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 45S (Jimmy Lydon) and his puppy-love affair with the pretty members to...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (August 1947)

406 THE COMMONWEAL August 8, 1947 German music, trappings, etc.-so the parallel is not straint to make its...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (July 1947)

3S8 THE COMMONWEAL J111Y 25, 1947 affair...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (July 1947)

July II, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 311 Dream Bait nesses...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (June 1947)

262 THE COMMONWEAL June 27, 1947 that morality actually played a determining part in the fight it out in...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (June 1947)

I9o THE.. COMMONWEAL June 6, 1947 The psychiatrist (Morris Carnovsky) in "Dishonored ...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (May 1947)

May 23, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 143 it gets quite tiresome because practically every shot is ...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1947)

541 sides Green himself, it included George Meany, secretarytreasurer; Dan Tobin of the teamsters, an ardent advocate of unity; Big Bill Hutcheson of the carpenters, an ardent advocate of...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (February 1947)

February aS, z947 THE COMMONWEAL The Labor Movement Sometimes You Make Mistakes S OMETIMES it is difficult to know what to do. You cannot always ask a priest. And if you do ask a...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (February 1947)

447 The Labor Movement Boxed in a Portal-to-Portal Suit THE DECISION of US Steel and the United Steel-workers, CIO, to extend their contract for two and a half months, until April 30, is a very...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (January 1947)

The Labor Movement A New United Front THERE IS AN acute labor angle to the creation a few weeks back of the new organization of anticommunist progressives, Americans for Democratic Action....

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (January 1947)

The Labor Movement A Prediction for '47 SINCE John L. Lewis pulled in his horns and called off the coal strike, there has not been a single important work stoppage in the whole country....

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (December 1946)

The Labor Movement The CIO Convention THERE is a good deal of dissatisfaction going round on ti.e subject of the recent CIO convention in Atlantic City. Some of this is well taken, or well felt,...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (November 1946)

I46 THE COMMONWEAL November 22, x946 unfaithful with a handsome Egyptian (Charles Korvin) who appealed to her baser nature while her husband was digging in the tomb of a pharaoh. So greatly is she...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (November 1946)

After reading this statement, it makes an interesting mental, social and political exercise to think back into the recent past and apply it to various controversial questions such as: 1I) Did...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (October 1946)

inspired observation, "A guaranteed annual wage is impossible unless you have a stable economy, and if you have a stable economy you don't need a guaranteed annual wage." Obviously this releases Mr....

VISIT TO A PARISH (October 1946)

13 Visit to a Parish JOHN C. CORT IF YOU take the bus from the New York ferry landing, you wander up and down and around, and eventually you come out on the road that runs along the Atlantic...

The Labor Movement (October 1946)

598 THE COMMONWEAL October 4, 1946 Continuing the blue note is "'Three Little Girls in Blue" which substitutes youth and enthusiasm for plot values. Rather relentlessly it drums in its story...

The Labor Movement (August 1946)

August 3 o, I946 THE COMMONWEAL 479 The Screen YippeeI T HAT not all the movies with western locales need have typical cowboy plots (cattle stampedes and villain stealing ranches) is shown in...

The Labor Movement (August 1946)

434 THE COMMONWEAL August I6, x946 who grows from the coy kitten shivering beside the Sphinx to the cruel and regal first-lady whom we usually think of under different circumstances. In the...

The Labor Movement (August 1946)

August 9, 1946 THE COM is driven to drink by his sadism. All this is told with typical English understatement and good performances throughout. Particularly effective are Phyllis Calvert as Lucy...

Third Party? (July 1946)

Third Party ? The chances for success are very slim indeed John C. Cort N OT SINCE x924, when the Progressives polled 4,000,000 votes and Coolidge won, has there beea so much talk about a...

The Labor Movement (July 1946)

July 5, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 287 the tremor of Corot in the tones that made him great. And if he reached a chef d'oeuvre in the celebrated "Interrupted Reading," it is again, if one examines...

The Labor Movement (June 1945)

June 28, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 263 and this was the momera in his life in which he became conscious that the :freedom of men all over the world was threatened by the new spirit of the age. The...

The Labor Movement (June 1946)

June 2~, x946 THE COMMONWEAL a39 Gfittith's "Birth of a Nation" to Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky." But this would be a sorry film if its greatest achievemerit were only in showing...

Free in the World (June 1946)

June i4, i946 THE COMMONWEAL 2,11 so long as we are a democracy' we couldn't even start in that direction. Therefore we have no choice: We must conquer war. HIsa'o~IA~r. How? I. By setting up...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (May 1946)

17 ~ THE COMMONWEAL May 31, 194,6 to condemn, for example, the "bloody idiots in the regular army w h o . . , indulge in abuse of the Indians. They treat the Indians in a way which not only...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (May 1946)

x46 THE COMMONWEAL May z4, 1946 at the same time, contain some of the most valuable history in the ;book. General Eisenhower's utilitarian conduct during the Darlan incident, as reported by...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (May 1946)

May IO, z946 THE COMMONWEAL 97 The Labor Movement Politics--AFL and CIO A S THE '46 elections draw near and Congress, drunk with the wine of post-war reaction, slides further and turther into...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (April 1946)

48 T H E C O M M 0 N W E A L April 06, I946 COLLEGE MISERICORDIA Dallas, Pennsylvania A Residential and Day College for Higher Education of Women, conducted by the Sisters of Mercy of the...

REUTHER AND THE AUTO WORKERS (April 1946)

Reuther and the Auto Workers A man you can bet on and his union John C. Cort I N DETROIT these days they are probably dusting off the old saw, "Why is one Reuth~r brother like another...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (April 1946)

The Labor Movement Beneath the Surface THE FORCES of law and order recently slapped an indictment on Major George Berry, ex-Senator from Tennessee who is also president of the...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1946)

600 The Labor Movement Intriguing Is the Word AT A RECENT session with newsmen President Truman reported that he had had "a pleasant conference" with John L. Lewis and William L....

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1946)

The Labor Movement The Fight for Ford 600 THE LARGEST local union in the world is probably Local 600 of the United Auto Workers, CIO, the giant Ford local in Detroit. And once again it has become...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1946)

554 THE COMMONWEAL March 15, 1946 The Labor Movement Quill and the Public Ride Again HP HERE WAS a retired Irish cop who used to chant X whenever the occasion seemed to demand it:...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1946)

530 THE COMMONWEAL March 8, 1946 The Labor Movement Correction A SLOPPY MISTAKE was made in this column two weeks ago when General Motors was included in the capital goods field. ...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (March 1946)

506 The Labor Movement Strikes and a Law AS THIS is written New York City is convalescing from a combination of convulsions, paralysis, chill* and fever brought on by the ten-day tugboat strike...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (February 1946)

481 The Labor Movement Reuther and the Ability to Pay WALTER REUTHER is only human. Therefore it would be foolish to maintain that he had done a perfect job in pleading the case of the United...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (August 1945)

454 THE COMMONWEAL August 24, 1945 sense of mystery that was so effective in "Rebecca." William Dieterle, who directed the pictures, and Lee Garmes, in charge of its photography, must have realized...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (August 1945)

406 THE COMMONWEAL August To, 1945 Nonobstante Mr. Attwater, primogeniture is still generally a fact in England. And, except in the case of certain Scottish peerages, of the royal family...

THE Labor Movement (August 1945)

August 3, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 383 The Labor Movement Addendum on Detroit LAST WEEK'S remarks on labor trouble in Detroit gave, of necessity, a far from complete picture. It is only fair to the...

THE LABOR MOVEMENT (July 1945)

July 27, 1 945 THE COMMONWEAL 359 The Labor Movement Detroit in Transit I N DETROIT these days nearly everything is in a 1 state of flux. It would be a vulgar exaggeration to say that "the joint...

TROUBLE IN MONTREAL (June 1945)

2 1 4 THE COMMONWEAL June 15, 1945 Trouble in Montreal John C. Cort ROSE PESOTTA is a female labor leader. They say that right now more than 3,000,000 union members in this country are women. And...

WHAT HAPPENED IN LONDON (June 1945)

6o THE COMMONWEAL Jane 1, 1945 principally Toledano, and the advocates of some system that would be fair to all, big and small. The victory was for the small nations and it was won by the CIO. The...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK (November 1944)

78 THE COMMONWKA L November 3, 1944 More Books of the Week Bur (/literacy. Ludiihi run Mises. Yale. $2.00. EVERY fourth year, ;i month or two before Election Day, a number of...

HILLMAN, CPA AND PAC (October 1944)

Hillman, CPA and PA C What's it all about? John G. Cort "I YOUR Country . . . Why Let Sidney Hillman Run It ? Vote for Dewey and Bricker." This is the message trumpeted on billboards and in...

TEACHING THE WORKERS (April 1944)

Teaching the Workers What labor schools can and cannot do John G. Gort JOE PAGANINI drives a truck somewhere in America. He belongs to the union and his is not a typical case-this is not that...

LABOR ON TRIAL (January 1944)

Labor on Trial "Democracy in Trade Unions" John C. Cort FOR THE thirty years between 1911 and 1941 there was neither a convention held nor a financial report made by the hodcar-riers' union. The...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK Arrival and Departure-Rise to Follow-My Life in China-Mother America-The Sacraments of Daily Life-The Russian Enigma- The Story of Helen Gould-My Revolutionary Years-The Wake of the Prairie Schooner- An Irish Journey-The Music Lovers' Almanac (December 1943)

More Books of the Week Arrival and Departure. Arthur Koestler. Macmillan. $2.00. THERE is not an empty word in this book, not a single hollow reflexion, not one "literary dialogue" splitting the...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK My Days of Anger-Out of the Silent Planet-The Darker Brother-Thunderhead-Meet Mr Blank, the Leader of Tomorrows Germans-Saint John Capistran, Reformer-The Little Locksmith-The Case for Mrs Suratt (October 1943)

More Books of the Week My Days of Anger. James T. Farrell. Vanguard. $2.75. WHEN YOU are living in a foreign country and you get a book from home you do not read that book in the way you would...

DESIGN FOR PLANNING (July 1943)

It is quite true that this report, and the policy of the Roosevelt Administration generally, proceeds on the assumption that government must step in where the lower organs of society...

LEWIS AND THE MINERS (May 1943)

118 Lewis and the Miners The story is not black and white. By John C. Cort TO BEGIN with, the coal picture has about as many angles to it as that famous cubist nightmare, Nude Descending a...

ARE WE MISSING A BUS? (August 1942)

One thing all of us can do is to pray for Philip Murray. More than any Catholic layman in years he is in a position to do something big for his country and for Christian social reform. And he is...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK Reveille in Washington-The Red Decade-Color and Human Nature (September 1941)

Books of the Week Two Non-Fiction Reveille in Washington. Margaret Leech. Harper. $3.50. FIVE YEARS ago, when Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) started work on her projected biography of the...

LABOR AND VIOLENCE (November 1939)

ABOUT 100 pickets walk slowly up and down before the gates of the American Manufacturing Company. They are quiet and orderly, but an air of tension hangs about them, as though they are expecting...

THE TREMENDOUS JOB (October 1939)

588 THE COMMONWEAL October 20, I939 The Tremendous Job By JOHN C. CORT T HE REAL threat to the democracies lles not in military conquest by Hitler and Stalin, but rather in their own internal...

CATHOLICS IN TRADE UNIONS (May 1939)

Catholics in Trade Unions Christian labor leadership is impossible if there are no Christians trained to be leaders; here is an answer to the problem. By John C. Cort O N A SATURDAY afternoon...

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