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SAYS CHURCH
MUST SOLVE
LABOR issue
"The Spirit of Christ is the
Spirit of Brotherhood
and Humanity"
Says Divine.
(By The United Press.)

New YORK, Sept. l.-DT. john MI
Dowell. secretary of the Presbyterian
Board OF Home Missions and sponsor
for the industrial and social creed
of the Presbyterian church, today
issued a Labor Day message under
the title THE Christ Spirit-The
Solution of Our Industrial Problems.
DR.. Mcdowell affirms unhesitat-
ngly that the spirit of Christ is the
only solution of the four most urgent
industrial problems of today. In
his message he said in part:
Whatever the present critical in
dustrial situation may mean to the
school, to the court, and to the
state, there can be no doubt about
what it means to the Christian
church. 1t is direct, definite and
unacceptable challenge TO the Church
of Christ, to create and nourlsh
the one thing lacking in modern
ndustry-namely the right spirit.
OF all the criticisms leveled against
modern industrialism, says Judson
G.. Rosebush, President of the Pat
ten Paper Company. Appleton, Wis
consin, none is SO basic as the
allegation that the underlying spir
it is officially wrong. The funda-
mental trouble with the Capitalist
Labor Controversy has been its mill
fancy; its total absence of co-opera
ton and fair dealing all around
THAT industry has right to look
to the church to- create and pro-
mote right spirit in industry can
not be questioned by anyone who
knows and accepts the mission and
function OF the church as defined
by Jesus Christ in the New Tesla
ment. The primary duty of the
church is to make the heart of
industry genuinely Christian. The
purpose of industry when truly
Christian will be cooperation for
public scrvice-not competition for
private gain.
This being the special task of the
try has a right to insist on the obi
cation of the church to Christianize
the spirit of industry. Industry
has a right to look to the church
for moral guidance on economic mat
ters.
The Only Solution.
But what would the Christianity
ing of the spirit of industry mean
to the world? We affirm, unhesi-
tatingly, that the spirit of Christ
is the only solution of the four
most urgent industrial problems of
our day.
First: The spirit of Christ in
the spirit of intelligence, integrity,
and cooperation, and is therefore the
solution of the problem of greater
efficiency in production. Nothing
else will solve this problem.
Second: The spirit of Christ is
the spirit of justice and fair deal
ing, and is therefore the solution
of the problem of greater equity in
the distribution of the earnings of
industry.
Third: The spirit of Christ is the
spirit of brotherhood and humanity,
and is therefore the solution of the
problem of greater participation in
the management of industry. The
spirit of Christ will make it impos-
sible for one group in industry to
determine all the terms of employ
ment for another group; it will in
sist that all rights which regulate
mems relationships must be mutual;
the Christ spirit will demand that
the wage oarners, whose opportuni-
ties in life are so overwhelmingly
influenced by Industrial conditions,
shall have a voice in their deter
mination, joint voice with man
agement in fixing the terms of en-
ploymont, the conditions of labor,
and the shop rules and regulations
so that government in industry
like government in the nation shall
only exist with consent of the gov
erned.
Fourth: The spirit of Christ is
the spirit of service and sacrifice
and freedom, and is therefore the
solution of the problem of greater
satisfaction in the work of indus
try. The spirit of Christ insists
that industry exists for man, not
man for industry, and it cannot en-
dorse any system of society, however
its economic triumphs if
1t cripples the personality of it's
workers or II deprives them of that
control over the material conditions
OF their own lives which is the ss