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Let, hy Febr wary 53, te et . (Continued from page 1) * -the socio-moral presupposi- - ° f#ions underlying their think- » dug far ymore compatible to” 1) the socié-political prejudices ' “ef Time or Newsweek than to the valid social teachings of ".the Vicar of Christ. . 2. ZT have particularly in mind 1 the extraordinarily high pri- . > ority these clerical spokesmen “attach to the fommnation of a farm labor unionzi. They seem _ to regard a labor union as - > the summum bonum, the ulti- mate good — or at least an --absolute . necessity for secur- ing worker justiec. This is not : “the thinking of, the. Supremie- _ i Pontiffs. 7 It is true that Pope Pius XI | in his encyclical, Quadragesi- - i rome 5 “mo Anno, deplored the “crim- inal injustice” of those heads of states who denied to the - economically weak “the na- -/fural right to form associa-~ .tions ..: . to defend them- ~ "selves- from il] treatment at the hands of the powerful.” -But he was intent on avoid- “ing the hazard of organized + violence. -- . a -breaking bread with friends. - It is only under ‘the com-— F. Kennedy. - - pulsion of necessity, therefore, - on “, ‘that he tolerated -Catholics | joining “secular” labor unions fie, mon-religious oriented). . 33 . ° Whe encyclical tolerates this thought. ~ - “enly “on condition that pro- In Quadregesimo Anno vision is made to imbue Cath- Pope Pius complained that ‘fas f- olic members with the prin-- tne situation now stands, hir- ciples of “religion and moral- ing and offering for hire in ity.” Gi. 32, 35.) . ‘+ - the . so-called labor market + . separates men into two “divi- But the Pope does Trot con: P i | Pace ean a STILE : = “es : sions, as Into two battle lines, sider the labor union the ang the contest betwoer these I ideal. While he comeedss the @ivisions turns the labor | ‘natural yight” of Jeboring . warvket itself almost into a ‘ mon to form unions “to de= batilefield where, face to face, - - fend themselves from the - ine opposing lines struggle unscrupulous, be deplores the bitterly.” Organization alons _ * ‘fact that. this is ever neces- such “batilelines” is quite nce. . sary; and he strengly reesin- .céptable to anyone interested mends organizing along ath- in promating class conflict 7 ° - . ES > oe Pets er Lines, less inherently _ or but it should be quile unsatis— fenittd te conflict. This is a factory to any Christian, es- . . . : ze 72. u > point that is rarely if ever pecialiy to anyone familiar * sufficientiy acknowledged by with % authoriietive Catho— - Te. we : Hic soc. aching. . “3 ° “veryone understands,” -.} continues the Pope, “ihat this 4 grave evil which is plunging all human sociely t6 deStruc— tion must be reinedied as soon as possible, But complete cure will not come until this op—~ position has becn. abolished rnd well-ordered rmenibers of -the ‘social. body --- Inctustrics y wand, Professions are “con- {i stituted m which men Yaay -have their place, net accord- af ing to the’ position each has in the Jabor market but ac- cording to the respective soci- a al functions : a 2ope: envisaged. wor te ers and employers f worked together with Chris- -K tian respect and~ concern, for Here we have ‘in broad out-- lines from van” authoritative Catholic source the organiza . ; tional ideal for our economic { sector. Althiough it was delin-—- -eated in 1931, it is stiN brand new -— a Hght hidden under a bushel, almost universally ignored .by our “Catholic” spokesmen who have gained a public hearing. It is still the genuine Catholic social teach- ing ancl it is still pertinent. In his encyclical, “Mater ct Ma- gistra,’ Pope John SNTIE re- minds us that “Workers and . regulate ¥ASVING: Cesar “Chavez attends the Mass the ond of his 23-day fast. After the Mass he broke. his fast by Present was the late Sen. Meher pesple who fancy themselves champions of “Catholic social which-each~per—i—the growers are considcrate o along the . }leach other.) : at colebrating their mutual. relations in ¢z spirit of human solidarity: anc dn accordance with the bond ef Christian brotherhood. Fox the unregulated competition which so-called lMberals es~ pouse, or the class. struggle in the Marxist sense, are utterly opposed te Christian teaching and also to the very nature of man. Cn. 23.) Lhe organization presently xvealized in the grape fields: ef California is far cleser to this Catholic ideal thun is the Union proposed Ixy Cesar Cha- vez and his promoters. The relationship | of the growers and workers-.in De- Jano is quite close. It that out in the fields A erew bass to aupervise erews. Im the pr mee of 7 t Workers,” he represerths boss; in the presence of the boss, he represents the work- ers. But this does not mearm that there is no communica- “tion Between the boss and the worker! Beatrice Aglip: ly, We of one of the iclane worke said of the workers: “Tune y¥ Gan tall to their bosses any- time; they have no problem communicating, nome “at alll’y AS for the bosses: ‘“They’re oul in the ficld .every day. They call individual men by, mame. . . . The majority a {heir worlke: s-and-really—-hav