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Taylor's mission," Cardinal Spellman said: "Surely these ministers of God know that even with the signing of peace treaties peace will be difficult to attain yet they wish withdrawn from his mission a man who by the statements of two Presi cur last two Presidents with vio- dents, helped bring some measure lating the letter and the spirit of of peace to this war -ridden world. Constitution in the American "I know these men attempted keeping him there." to bolster their intolerant attitude Peace. Contribution to and acts by attempting, and in Referring to the admission of a some cases succeeding, in inciting the ministerial others to join them. But I know, spokesman for group, that President Truman con- too, from the lips of real and great sidered Mr. Taylor's appointment Protestant and Jewish leaders of a contribution to peace, while the their indignant refusals and their unsame spokesman "hopefully anti- honest abhorrence of such Mr. American tactics." cipates the termination of
Strength of the Christian Intolerant Pressure in U.S.A. Trade Union Movement
The International Congress of Union in London, described the Christian Trade Unions repre- plight of Polish labour under the sent a majority of organised labour present totalitarian regime, and in the Netherlands, more than 40 Spain by a Basque exile. The per cent. in Belgium, and substan- chief among many resolutions tial minorities in France, Switzer- passed declared that the right to land, and Luxembourg. In France organise trade unions should be the "Confederation Generale des considered as one of the fundaTravailleurs Chretiens" has now mental freedoms: more than a million members, unified labour "Compulsory whereas up to 1935 it had less unions, wherever they have made than a quarter of a million. Ita- their appearance, have always led lian, German and Austrian repre- to intolerable coercion. The sentation, with those of the Ca- continually growing intervention tholic countries at present dom- of the State, not only as a politiinated by the Soviet Union, would cal power but also as employer bring the total of those represent- and manager, makes it necessary ed by the Christian International to ensure the defence of the workto some five or six mililons, as ers in and by a pluralist labour compared with the three millions union movement." represented at its foundation in In none of the countries dominHis Eminence Francis Cardinal 1920. ated by the Soviet Union are there Spellman, Archbishop pblitical of Poland, lives in the clash The riots in Kielce, of New The first post-war meeting of the now free trade unions. In Czecho- York, has hit hack at those who where more than 30 Jews were groups. International Congress of Chris- slovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, by "intolerant pressure" seek to killed, have been condemned by The Primate added that he had tian Trade Unions took place in Lithuania and Poland there were :ng about the recall ai Myron C. Cardinal Hlond, Primate of Po personally protected Jews while Amsterdam recently, when nearly flourishing Christian unions before Taylor as personal representative land. he was in France during the Ger250 delegates assembled under the the war which now no longer ex- ot President Truman at the VatiBut far from welcoming the man occupation. He begged Cachairmanship of the Belgian, M. ist, and the aim of the Commun- can. clergy's efforts to restore order. tholics to preserve complete calm Pauwels. Austria, Belgium, France, ists is to bring all working men Speaking at Fordham Univers- the civic authorities have obstruct- and to act with all prudence. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Po- into one great compulsory organi- ity, the Cardinal dismissed as ed their attempts to do so adds Mgr. Kubina, Bishop of Czestoland, Spain and Switzerland were sation, through which not only "baseless" the arguments of Pro- His Eminence. chowa, who also condemned the represented; Austria by a dele- their politics in the narrower sense testant groups, who pretend to see the false- rioting, wrote: report exposes This gate attending in his individual ca- but their arid philosophy can be a violation of the principle of hood from Warsaw, published in 1,300,000 separation of Church and State, More than pacity, because there are at pre- instilled. "Absolutely nothing can justify the daily press recently, accusing the backsent no Christian trade unions in working men are compulsorily and charge that dipl'..Tratic relaPolish this crime in Kielce, the and Hlond Cardinal Austria, Poland by an exile, M. members of such an organisation tions between the Ainclican Gavground and reason of which is to of complicity in the antiBishops Boryssowivz, who was given a in Poland, where no Catholic work- ernment and the Vatican are unbe found in criminal fanaticism semitic pogrom at Kielce. rousing reception and who, repre- litng-men's organisation, however authorised or unconstitutional. and inexplicable ignorance. The foreign to the a statement in Trade is permitted. Christian Polish unpolitical, the senting moral and actual committers of "I believe in and practise tolerthe this murder have trampled on the that said the Cardinal press, ance," the Cardinal said. "for my disturbances had filled him with dignity of man and violated in a religion teaches me to oppose even read a declara- terrible way the Christian comRut when sadness. He then hatred with charity. tion defining the attitude of the mandment of neighbourly love, of reunions of large groups of religiChurch towards anti-Semitism and the principle, "Thou shalt not kill." ous leaders, with the pretext of the reproaches directed took place in Kielce last autumn_ representing 30 or 40 million Am- answering in Poland by Gov The Bishop of Kielce, Mgr. Kaczdissension at the Church ericans, sow seeds of ernment circles. marek. declared at that time to a and disunion, I feel it my duty as The priest, who went to the Jewish delegation that he had an American and a Catholic to The Holy Father's pronounce. says the prayed during the war for the perincident, the scene of against help defend our nation ment on nationalisation comes as Cardinal's declaration, was arrest- secuted Jews, that he had ordered such misrepresentations." a valuable lead on a subject that by armed men and compelled the priests to sermons preach of all men of good- ed no -operation is vexing most of the countries of After troops had about tolerance and condemn all the to return. will is needed to stave off His letter is an answer Europe. round the place, threatened ruin of civilisation, and thrown a cordon to counsel the symptoms of hatred, so contrary to a request from the French orpriests went to Christian ethics. to bring about the reconstruction five ganisers of the Social Weeks to be isolated groups still on the spot of the world on the basis of truth held in Strasbourg, who wanted and justice, the Cardinal remind- to disperse. authoritative guidance on a subThe next day the local religious Have Your Racquet Restrung or ed. Both the late President Rooseject of such consuming general inan appeal for Repaired by Norm. Beast, expert "being authorities issued Truman, velt and President terest. It has been read with no but publication of this was stringer, 14 Bon Marche Arcade. men of goodwill themselves," have calm, less interest in England, where the the civic authorities of the withheld by leadership the recognised arguments on the subject are bewas 'A second similar appeal that co-operation Pope toward J. W. SHEEHAN coming fiercer as the present Soand "have sent Mr. Taylor to the read on the Sunday in all the cialist Government continues with PRIME BEEF BUTCHER of good- churches of Kielce. ambassador Vatican as an its scheme of bringing all public HANNAN ST., KALGOORLIE will," he said. The fact that good relations arc utilities under national control. MARITANA STREET "Only the absence of goodwill," now beginning to be broken, said His Holiness says: "The Church Tel. 43$. the Cardinal added, "can misrepre- His Eminence, is due, in great TeL 438. is the model of all social life, for sent his presence there or charge part, to Jews occupying high she has saved the true value of places in the Government and nahuman passions from the degradathe ti n into which it had been thrown hence the profit which it brings tional life who are imposing on the BRYANT & WATERS by philosophies and pagan usages; to the benefit of the community State a structure contrary to 80 to 90 STIRLING ST.. PERTH desires of the vast majority of the and this she did from the moment is, as you know, very suspect. she recognised and defended in the "We hold that the institution population. The result is a dan- WOOD & COAL MERCHANTS. 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