The Washington times., 1922-06-28
WILLIAM HARD,

WILLIAM EfnDs Opcn' hhu aso
note that its department Of social
action yesterday issued another per
fectlly normal bulletin on It's Gus
tomary favorite idea Of Transforming g
the workers OF the world into cwn.
ers as well a. workers by means OF
producers cooperative societies"
In other words, the council 10 still
with us and it's so-called land mis-
called ''radicalism" Is also still with
us, although the papal order which
was supposed to quench that "radi'
caiism" was issued four months ago.
The Roman Catholic Church is
the largest known international or
sanitation. It's pslicies touch and
affect the minds and lives of peo-
pie In virtually all countries. What
II thinks and says about radical
ism" has q universal political i'm
portance. now venture to make
the following prediction:
Even II the Pope should now In
fact dissolve the National Catholic
Welfare Council at Washtngtcp, its
ward Ia the Roman Catholic Church
In America without papal condemna'
tion for any central essential point
In II. s.
That policy is the same policy
which without .papai condemnatio
IL today widely taught by irfluen-
Itia1 Catholic organizations through
out Europe.
In the residence of Cardinal Mer-
cier Of Belgium a Catholic organiza-
ton has been formed which 10 called
the International Union Of Social
Studies. It has recommended that
In the management Of industries
there should be joining Of the e.
forts OF capital and of labor. II has
recommended that part of the profits
Of al industries should be distributed
to the workers in them in the form
OF labor shares" which would trans.
form the workers into owners along
with the present owners. This asso
well a. Of Belgian Catholics, and the
sanction given to It by Cardinal Mcr-
cisr 10 q rather sufficient indication
of its orthodoxy.
Z In England there is a Catholic
organisation called the English Cath,
olic Social Guild, which issues a
magazine called the Christian Demo,
crat. In this magazine I notice that
Il is said that "the worker must not
only be q producer, but he must also
have share In the ownership Of the
means of production" To this end
We must adopt the principle Of co.
operative production. That principle
rs the only possible antidote to
socialism, Is a constant feature OF
Catholic teaching today in Rome
itself.
In Rome there Is q college being
organized called the Catholic Col.
iege Of the Cooperative Movement.
1t IL to study cooperative market.
ing, cooperative banking. co-opera.
tive producing. Meanwhile tho
Catholic Italian Confederation Of
Labor has declared itself In favor of
the democratizing of industry by
means Of the distribution Of profits
to workers in the form Of labor
shares" more or less a. suggested
by the association instituted by Car.
dinal Mercier.
Meanwhile further in both Italy
and Germany the danger of ex-
treme radicalism on the one hand
and of extreme and revolutionary
reaction on the other has forced
the Catholic political parties into
a certain cooperation with the
more moderate sections OF their in
veterate enemies, the Socialists.
The Catholics do not abate their
opposition to the philosophy of So.
ciaiisfn but they find that In prac-
tice certain Socialists are today
preferable both to the Bolshsvik
extremists Of the left and to the
junkers and other aristocratic and
imperialistic extremists Of the right.
Germany stands poised today be.
tween communism and monarchism
and 10 able to fight off both Of
them through the strength that 1t
gets from the alliance between the
moderate Socialists and the cen
trist Catholics.
Tn thsse circlnsta nces n cert.ipIv