Evening journal., 1922-09-23
'EPISCOPALIANS
ASSIST LABOR
Believe Workers Should
Share in Control of Ma
tion's Industry
HEALING OF SICK
TO BE ALLOWED

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept. 23.-The
right of labor TO have a voice in the
control of the industry which de-
termines its conditions of working
and living. was Endorsed by the Epis-
copal convention when the House
OF Deputies concurred with Thurs
days vote OF the bishops on the re-
port of the social service commit
tee. The report also indorses the
right OF labor TO organize and the
principle of collective bargaining. It
declared that labor is entitled TO a
living wage and that capital and the
consumer are in duty bound to fur
nish such wage, and 1t advocates
cooperative rather than competitive
production.
Members OF the committee that
| drafted the resolution last week de-
clared that they had very little hope
when they were drawing It up that
the convention would indorse a pro-
gram so radical in the points in
| which Il deals with labor relations.
The resolution also contains a deo-
laration in favor of international
policies of equal justice between
races. a world association of nations
for peace and a sweeping reduction
of military ornaments. In the labor
resolution the committee declared in
part:
among principles that must un-
derlie ands motivate any industrial
system that can be called Christian
are the following;
Human rights must take prece-
dence over property rights.
Therefore, a minimum subsist-
ence wage and II possible a comfort
able and saving wage must be the
first charge on the industry. and the
public as well as employers must be
willing to pay respectively their pro-
portionate shares of this charge.
"Cooperation for the common SER
vice must be substituted for the pres
ent competition for private advan-
tage. as the paramount motive and
end of all industry"
A resolution by Bishop Guerry of
South Carolina urging that "relig-
ious plays and pageants in church
building should be for the present
at least discouraged" was presented
yesterday.
Bishop McElwain OF Minnesota
protested against the resolution, say
ing that If he wanted to put on a
pageant and should be forbidden he
would regard It as an unwarranted |
interference"
Several other bishops we're on their
feet when Bishop Brown checked |
the controversy by ordering the |
resolution placed on the calendar for
later debate.
The question of altering the |
Prayer Book TO permit the optional |
use Of unfermented grape Juice in
the communion service proved more |
delicate than the convention appar-
emily cared to attempt to handle az |
the session.
\ resolution was adopted by the /
Bishops TO appoint a committee of |
three to go into the matter and re-
port at the next triennial conven-
ton. It was Immediately urged and
carried that the report OF this COM !
mittee should be read and consid- =.
cred in council.
The Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States has been form
ally placed on record in recognition
of the ministry OF healing. The re-
cognition was accorded by a
vote of the House of Bishops rati-
flying the action OF the House of
Deputies at the general convention
here.
The bishops action authorizes
clergy and lay members. who be-
iieve they possess powers Of heal
ing, to prepare themselves by care
and prayer and theological and med
ical study, for their proper and safe
exercise"
Provision is made that wherever
this ministry is specialized those who
exercise it shall do so only with the
written approval after due consid-
Grafton of their bishop and in sym
pathetic conference with qualified
Christian physicians"
A commission was named to con-
slider further the matter of healing.
Bishop Thomas f. Caller. Bishop
Of Tennessee, was reelected presi-
dent of the National Council by the
House OF Bishops on the seventh
ballot.
The House OF Bishops adopted
the following prayer for use in the
service:
20 Almighty God, creator of man
kind, Who only art the wellspring Of
life; bestow upon these Thy SER