New-York tribune., 1920-12-07
Saws Interests
Seek Reprisals
Against Church
Theology Professor Asserts
Business l. -Arrayed for
attack on Protestants Be-
cause of Steel Report
Will Cut Contributions
Declares Industrial Corpora
tions Will Launch Cam
paisn of Propaganda

Professor Harry T. Ward. Of Union
! Theological Seminary. asserted yester-
- a Z conference Of the Eastern sec
, ION Of The Church League for Indus
; .ral Democracy. that powerful inter-
ests were arrayed against the Protes-
: ,aat Church because Of the Interchurch
, World Movements rcpor. on the steel
, strike.
{ They were trying TO cut off contribu-
! tons to churches and 70 educational
movements which are concerned with
Industrial conditions, ne said, and soon
would send their agents into churches
church conventions and meetings of the
clergy to carry or an active campaign
, Q; propaganda.
These people think tina. they can
cat Of support for the churches" he
aid and then subject them to their
own brand of propaganda. Until now
they have neglected the churches in
! spreading their propaganda, but YOU
will see soon that more attention will
be paid 20 the churches Their agents
Viii be IN evidence at meetings Of
preachers and similar gatherings 10 ad
dress hem.
Work Will Be Continued
The work of social welfare groups
ot the Church was climaXed with the
steel report of the Interchourch Move
ment. It was the most pretentious
thing the Church has ever done. They
had plenty Of money available for the
research work and they spent it, The
,acts. however. were gathered by the
Bureau Of Industrial Relations and
only the findings were the work OF the
Interchurch committee. The Bureau OF
Industrial Relations is business or
ganization engaged in making investi-
cations more often for big business
Enterprises.
The question is whether or not that
work has stopped with the collapse of
the Interchurch Movement. This league
IS not prepared to take UP the work,
but the Federal Council Of Churches
is charging its research staff and will
be able 10 go on with it.
al of the national ecclesiastical.
bodies nave marked time since the end
Of the war They have been controled q
BY conversatives or even reactlonaries
The radical and liberal men in the
churches are voiceless. They are kept
under, tnev are lonesome for want OF
spiritual fellowship, and need to be
~brought together
Lost in Misleading Propaganda
AN economic revolution is in prog
ress and the people in the churches are
no. prepared TO face it. They are lost
in al sorts OF misleading propaganda.
Professor Ward was introduced as
one who had taken a prominent part IN
preparing the report Of the intercnurch n
committee on the steel strike. The
conference, which will end to-day, is
being held at the parish house Of the
Church Of the Ascension, II West Elev-
enth Street.
g. A letter was read from Bishor
p Charles D. William, of Michigan, pres
dent OF the leagIe, in which he said:
: Church Too Generally Silent
The church has too generally beer
silent and timid when great crises have
challenged her to lift up her voice and
boldly bear witness TO the princi piles
Of her Master. Now then, in this worlc
storm, which involves Us all, the whole
Industrial fabric is shaken because i
,..as been built on confcssedly un
christian foundations. The American
episcopate has ventured 10 speak out
and plead for the Christianization o.
industry; can We not each Of US ado
our Individual testimony to the witnes:
of the church %