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Revolution Will Not Bring Social Justice Solution of Labour Question Demands Evolution Through Concord, Warns Pope of realisation,
False Prophets of Social Prosperity Working Class Remains Bound, Choked and Tied to State Capitalism Evolution, not revolution, is the secret of salvation and of justice for workers, the Holy Father told a vast gathering of Italian working men and women gathered in the Vatican on Whit Sunday. Vatican Radio describes it as "one of the greatest Papal audiences ever held," and estimates that 26,000 workers were present: they had come from all over Italy to offer the Holy Father the homage of Labour on the occasion of his jubiNo hall of the Vatican could hold the great assembly, and as the lee. Cortile of St. Damaso--sometimes used for big gatherings-was too small, flower beds and some palm trees were removed from the immense Belvedere Cortile to accommodate the crowd.
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noisy and inconsiderate fashion, but continue their work and face the difficulties with discipline and calm, thus Three thousand workers from outside the social status of the workers, men contributing invaluable support to the Rome were at the audience. There were and women, which calls for recondi- tranquillity and support or all in the tioning and reform. The whole com300 from Milan, 200 from Turin, and social family. smaller groups representing other cities plex structure of society is in need of That, however, should not lead anyand towns-"a notable assembly in adjustment, thoroughly shaken as it is one to think that all these questions But the labour view of the difficulties of war-time in its foundations. question, because of the complexity are to be considered as solved. travelling," said Vatican Radio. The Church, Guardian and Teacher and variety of the problems it entails, A group of 1,000 women workers ocof Truth, in asserting and defending cupied a place set aside for them near and the vast number of people it in- courageously the rights of the working volves, merits special attention. the Papal throne. in The Pope said that neither he nor classes on various occasions, and her The band of the Palatine Guard combating error, has had to raise played before the Holy Father's arri- his predecessors had lost any oppor- voice against letting oneself be detunity of making all men understand val. luded by the mirage of specious and When the Pope appeared there was the workers' personal and family needs; fatuous theories and visions of future prerequisfundamental as the proclaiming on seated and, cheer a deafening well-being, and against the deceptive red -draped throne, His Holiness had ites of social justice those things which enticements and attractions of false to wait for several minutes whilst the they have so much at heart. who call However laudable may be various prophets of social prosperityand who, crowd roared "Viva it Papa." evil good and good evil punctuated the Holy provisions and concessions made by though posing as friends of the people, Applause Father's Exposition of the rights of public authority and the humane and do not approve those mutual agreeinspire which generous sentiments the workers. ments between capital and labour, emIn his long address the Pope replied many employers, who could affirm with ployer and employee, which sustain with feeling to the accusation-repeat- truth that such ideals have been every- and promote concord for their common ed by Nazi propagandists some weeks where realised? progress and advantage. ago-that the Papacy had brought False Prophets. Patience. Workers' war. the about Such false prophets would have us In any case, working men and woThe weight of the present difficulties salvation must come from responthat great of their believe conscious men, who is felt by the mass of the workers sibility to the common good, feel and a revolution, which shall overturn soare burdened and afflicted more than a national charothers, but it is not felt by them alone, appreciate their duty not to aggravate cial order and attain the burdens of extraordinary difficulty acter. said the Holy Father. Social revolution claims to give Every class has to carry its own bur- under which peoples are groaning, by hands of the working den, more or less painful and difficult presenting their claims, in this hour of power into the a class-empty words, mirages, incapable to bear as it may be. It is not only universal and imperious grief, in
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In fact we see that the working class remains bound, choked and tied to the force of State Capitalism, which restrains and subjects all, not only the family, but even the conscience, and transforms the workers into a gigantic labour machine Like the other social system and orders which it claims to fight, it classifies, regulates and transforms all into a brutal war machine, which demands not only blood and health, but also the wealth and prosperity of a people. Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in an evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction, the inflaming of passions, not their pacification, the stimulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of the contending parties. It is only a progressive and prudent evolution in conformity with nature, enlightened and guided by the Christian laws of justice and equity, that can lead to the fulfilment of the honourable desires and needs of the workers: not to destroy them, but to build and consolidate, not to abolish private property, the foundation of family stability, but to work for its extension as a reward of the conscientious toil of every working man and woman.