The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-04
Church Backs Bosses
in Fight to Maintain
Seven-Day Work Week
BY ]. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, the aggregation of "open shoppers" that
made war on the antchd labor amendment to the
federal constitution : now opening an offensive against the
Up close to the head of the procession in both these
antabor drives to be found the religious eactonares
who cloak the blacklist crimes OF capitalism under the ante
of freedom" and liberty"
1t is hypocrticaly argued that grown workers. men
and Woen should be allowed to toll hours they choose
just it urged that children must be robbed of
the godgNen right to enter industry time they desired
In Washington D. c.. there has actually up an
organization that sends out its propaganda attacking all eff
euphonious title Of Religious Liberty Association" and
out to save as claims large sections of the American
working class from being compelled to toll six days instead
of days each week. Its philosophy summed up in
this paragraph:
right to work and the right to rest are natural eodsven
rights which himself
the the
retire. when he arise in the morning. and meals he
should combination
benefit of his health To when he
work. is the exercise of arbitrary authority"
That the basis which the big proftees the steel
trust insisted keeping the sevenday week going in that
industry until they realized they could longer keep the
workers IN leash They claimed the tweve-hour day and the
liked it, thrived it. But rather peculiar, they
permitted the in the mills to speak their views this
matter.
The employers and their subsidized organizations, like
the Religious Liberty Association having ncTeas
ngy hard time of trying to deude workers into believing
they have any rights under capitalism increasing Of
the wh of bosses dictatorship, except where they are
able thwart its edcts thru their organized strength.
If there any godgven rights" the boss has them. 1t
was the Pennsylvania mine owner Baer who claimed
that he ruled the mine workers thru divine right Only
the powerful organizations of the hard and soft coal miners
in that state have Iiqudated that dream
Many workers do not know what Is meant by capital
ism. 1t is Boshevk word they do fathom. But they
nstnctvey know that is the bosses that sets the
alarm clock The fight of the workers for days in
seven is an example Of this fact This shorter wok-week
fight involves hundreds of thousands, millions, Of
workers, in many industries parallels the fve-day week
fight in other industries
There is only power that permits John D. RockefeI-
er Jr to his Fifth Avenue Church in New York City,
Sunday while armies of workers toll at their jobs in the
oil fields other branches of the oil industry That is the
power Of dollars Rockefees grip. Perhaps in the words
OF the Religious Liberty Association" Rockefeller, Jr
bIes this lie:
at always every hal
aenabIe right any
right to when he without hndranee
part of the state industrial commission"
That the usual fanduIant propaganda of the open
shoppers.
Workers have only those rights that they fight
Wn Today the big fight is to win from the capitalists
who control the lives of the workers under capitalism.
Struggles for the eghthour day and the sxday week.
but small preliminary skrmishes in that long The
its victorious ending for labor Soviet Russia with
building of the Communist Society.
The church in Russia, before 1917, all side
of the Yet capitalist world shocked to think
that the Russian workers and should in the
day their victory, have use for the church.
The Religious Liberty Association in its fight against
the movement also helps open the
of workers to the real mission of the church under
American capitalism 1t is thus helping teach the workers
lesson that the church is their enemy. the workers
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