Whereas, the churches, in the statement of 'The Social Ideals' have stood for 'The right of employees and employers alike to organize for collective bargaining'.
Labor can have no effective voice as long as it is unorganized.
To protect its rights it must be free to bargain collectively through its own chosen representatives. Catholic Church Church of the Brethren Laborers are always to be regarded as persons and never as a commodity. Industry was made for man, and not man for industry. We stand for the replacement of the autocratic organization of industry by one of collective effort of organized workers and organized employers. That It is our conviction that workers should have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist in forming labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing and to engage in such activities as are within the limits of Constitutional rights for the purpose of bargaining with employers and other mutual aid protection.