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PERTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1941.
NO. 2,989.
New Social Justice Statement on May 4 Application to Conditions of Australia's Workers Social Justice Sunday, established last year by the Hierarchy of Australia, as a day of prayer and study for the triumph of Christian principles of social justice, falls this year on May 4th. The decision to observe the day on the third Sunday after Easter in ach year has a special significance, since it is the Sunday within the octave of the Solemnity of St. Joseph, himself a carpenter, and in a special sense the patron of workers. The Statement on Social Justice which is being issued this year with the formal approval of the Episcopal Committee on
Catholic Action, contains a particular application of the principles enunciated in last year's ''Bishops' Statement" to the conditions of Australian workers to day. The Bishops' Statement issued last year had a circulation of 61,000 copies, and its ir fluence on every section of Australian opinion, Catholic and nonIts recepCathclic, was tremendous. tion by members of the various Australian Parliaments was especially noteworthy. In his foreword to this year's Statement, the Episcopal Secretary of the Bishops Committee on Catholic Action makes the following remark, the truth of, ychich will be acknowledged by Australian legislators:
"It is not presumptuous to claim that the united Catholic voice, which was heard throughout Australia last
year demanding that Christian principles should be applied to our social life fortified the determination of the Australian people to take at least one definite step in that direction by establishing family endowment as an element in our national social policy." The reception which was accorded the 'Bishops' Statement on Social Justice" by Australia's public men last year was a notable one, and a happy augury for this year's document. The late Sir Henry Gullet, then Actin the Federal Government, wrote that he yeas symand agreement "in extraordinary pathy with the Bishops' Statement.. .. It is altogether admirable in its breadth of view and it is unanswerable in its He wished the Australian appeal." National Secretariat of Catholic Acticin (which distributed the document) ing Minister for Information
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"every success in the grand cause to which it had committed itself." Mr. John Lemmon, M.L.A., former Victorian Minister for Education, declared that it "connoted the logical development of the Christian care of the Catholic Church in its promotion of the welfare of the people." He regarded it as a "most valuable and opportune contribution to important questions of the day." Mr. W. V. McCall, M.H.R., member for Martin (N.S.W.), acknowledged that he had already made use of some of the ideas contained in the Statement, and that many other members were in accord with the sentiments expressed. Mr. H. W. Cremean, M.L.A., Deputy Leader of the Victorian Labour Party, emphasised that "the Bishops had given a lead which might be followed with profit by many others in the community.' Mr. Cremean was subsequently chairman of the Select Committee of the Victorian Parliament on the matter of Child Endowment, and his committee's excellent report was praised by Mr. Holt, M.H.R., Minister of Labour and National Security when he introduced the Federal Child Endowment legislation. J. H. Gifford, Lecturer in Economics in the University of Queensland, valued the Statement for its suggestions concerning Child Endowment and Marriage -
Loans. H. Alcock, Professor of Economics in the same University, declared: "Despite the fact that I am not of your Church, I sincerely trust that 'Social justice Sunday' will prove to have brought home to many, and particularly to teachers and to those young people who are just beginning to gather confidence for the responsibilities of life, the urgent need for a coherent morality and a unified outlook on our many problems." The Statement was "a fine piece of compression and expressed principles with which I am in hearty
agreement." The late Dr. W. Moloney, the "Litt'.? Doctor," great worker for and sincere friend of Melbourne's poor, was among those who publicly expressed his appreciation of the Statement. Mr. E. V. Holloway, M.H.R., Labdur member for Melbourne Ports, in expressing his admiration of the Statement, declared: "I read the Statement
not only with very great interest, but also with a thrill of pride and satisfaction, firstly because it contained so much with which I am in full accord, and secondly because it inspires me to still believe that the great and powerful institution which you represent has rid! forgotten those years of mental and physical poverty which your ancestors and mine. (who happened to be both Irish and Catholic) had to live through. I think the statement is both courageous and economically sound a splendid statement." The work of the Bishops received extensive reviews in every Australian daily paper and in all the important country papers of the Commonwealth. Its main ideas were outlined on the radio, so that the vast majority of Australians were furnished with the opportunity of knowing the application of Catholic social principles to Australian conditions. The National and Social Reconstruc. tion Movement which has made progress in different States of Australia during the past year, adopted the Statement as one of the two documents explaining the principles on which its work was based. Demands for the Statement have come from the United States, from India, from New Zealand, and every part of the Pacific Basin. It is anticipated that with the collaboration of priests and laymen the call of the Hierarchy for the observance of Social Justice Sunday will be greeted with equal success on May 4. .
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Mr. Harry Dean was married with Nuptial Mass to Miss Patricia Kennedy, of Mt. Magnet, in the Chapel of the Christian Brothers' Agricultural Mr. School, Tardun, on 16th. inst. Dean is the pioneer student of the Tar dun Scheme, the Patrons of which are His Grace the Archbishop of Perth, His Lordship the Bishop of Geraldton, and the Lord Abbot of New Norcia. A full report of the ceremony appears elsewhere in this issue.
Latin America Can Thank Papacy for Peace Contributions of successive Popes for peace in Latin America were recalled by the preacher at the first Pan-American Mass to be celebrated in Southern California, a Mass at which Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicarague, Panama, Peru and Venezuela were represented. Seven months after Columbus landed at San Salvador, Alexander VI averted what appeared a certain war between Spain and Portugal over the New World. In 1537 Pope Paul III inveighed against those who attempted to make 'slaves of the Indians, declaring that, irrespective of their religion, they were entitled to their liberty and Every attempt to their possessions. enslave them he characterised as null and void. More recent examples are the settlement of a boundary between Peru and
Ecuador in 1893; mediation between Britain and Venezuela over the Guinea boundary in 1859; arbitration between Haiti and San Domingo by Pope Leo XIII in 1898; securing from Spain an acceptance of the United States conditions in 1898, an act which would hale prevented the Spanish-American War if the United States had adhered to its agreement; settlement of a boundary dispute between the Argentine and Chile in 1902, an agreement which is perpetuated by the famous statue of the "Christ of the Andes." Agreement between Colombia and Peru in 1905 that all disputes (with fhe exception of independence and honour) shall be submitted to Papal arbitration if direct negotiation fails; decisions of disputes between Brazil and Bolivia and between Brazil and Peru over gold mines in 1909-10.
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