The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-28
GARY IS UNFIT FOR HONOR BY COLLEGE, SAYS CHURCHPAPER
Pacific Christian Advocate Says Con ferring of Degree Misrepre-
 Sents MethOdiSm.

The Pacific Christian Advocate, the leading organ of the Methodist Epis- copal church on the Pacific coast, protests against the action of the Northwestern University in confer ring an honorary degree on Judge Ebert H. Gary, chief of the Steel Trust. %
 Northwestern University has been considered ar representative institu- tion," says the Christian Advocate editorial s'and for it to choose as a recipient of it's highest honor the man who IS most conspicuous III the move nent to smash the unions is utterly to misrepresent Methodist thought and feeling"
 The Christian Advocate proceeds to formulate the following indictment of Judge Gary and the Steel Trust:
 ''The Methodist Episcopal church believes in the fourth commandment and in Sunday observance. Mr. Gary has become the dominant figure in means of the, seven-day week has made it impossible for thousands of men to keep the fourth command ment The methods used in that in dustry tend to make mockery of the institution of religion
 "The Methodist Episcopal church believes in home life Mr. Gary as as dominant figure in the United States Steel Corporation, which sets the standards for the whole industry, has made 1t impossible for tens of thousands of people to enjoy home life Outside of rare holidays and of the time spent Tn strikes, he has made it impossible for fathers to see their children by daylight. That isl the meaning of the I2-hour day
 By making tremendous profits during the war a great surplus was built up, which now in these 1eaner times amply protects the stockhold- CTS. No~effort whatever was made to protect the employees of the corpora toin, upon whom falls chiefly the bur den of defation Their wages have been greatly reduced, but prices of steel are still very much higher than they were in 1913. MT. Gary has de- manded and arranged that the law of supply and demand shall have free course in the case of laboring men but that it shall not run in so far as the steel magnates themselves are1 concerned Organization Is permitted on the one side and prevented on tl,e other. I
 "In carrying out this policy it has been necessary to start civil war in West Virginia, using for that purpose highly paid gunmen. The men they have killed are just as dead as the strikebreakers, recently shot by union miners in Illinois These activities have meant the suspension of con stitutional guarantees"
 In calling attention to the editorial quoted above Rev. George w. Cooper, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at McCleary, Wash, writes:
 Tt is pleasure to note the grow ing number of social-minded religious leaders who are -disgusted with this kind of sycophancy on the part of college professors.
 There is a growing number of young students who realize that in the last analysis they are supported by the working people. They do not intend to take their education from the workers and then use 1t to de- wise ways to continue to live upon them. I
 They will honorably discharge their debt by helping to transform in dustry and to give 1t constitution alism which will permit an equitable distribution of the benefits of industry and sharing of its control and re- responsibilities"