Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-11
Labor Head Speaks
In Congregational
Church at Detroit

Detroit, Oct 10.-(P1-Spokesmen
for the American Federation of
Labor, the Detroit Council of
Churches and the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America, join
ed today in cordial expressions of
goodwill and charitable understand
ing from the pulpit of the First Con-
gregational church here.
The large church auditorium was
well filled. number of delegates to
the federation's annual convention,
now in session here, being among the
audience.
The meeting arranged by officers
of the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America, and which was
presided over by DR. Lynn Harold
Hough, president of the Detroit
Council of Churches. was addressed
by William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor.
The meeting was one of eighteen
conducted in Detroit today under the
auspices of the Federal Council of
Churches, sermons in all of which
were devoted to the theme of the
relations between labor and the
church. Six officers and delegates of
the labor convention were in pulpits.
At a special service in st. Aloysius
Catholic church. this morning. n
large number of labor delegates
John A. Ryan, secretary of the social
action department, national Catholic
Welfare Council.
To1a,, u E'raI- nrpSidnnf Of tho 0hin
state Federation of Labor, will speak
at IL o'clock tomorrow morning be-
fore the Detroit Ministerial Associa-
ton in the general headquarters of
the Detroit Y. NJ. C. A.
THE mass meeting of the citizens of
Detroit at the First Congregational
church was told by Rev. DR.. Worth NJ.
Tippy. executive secretary of the
church councils industrial commits
sion, that the meeting had been called
"in honor of William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor
and as a protest against the indigni-
ties to which he md the federation
have been subjected" and ito utter
protest against the affront which the
Detroit board of commerce has Of
fered to the churches of Detroit and
the Federal Council of Churches"
ut is intolerable,' he said, that
national officials of the churches and
of the American Federation of Labor
should be charged with disloyalty to
the government
"J trust that worliingmen through
out the country will recognize that
what has happened here today was due
to the courageous and aggressive SYM
pathy of the Protestant clergy for the
spiritual and social aims of labor.
1.-THE churches cannot rightly be said
to be partisan, but they are manifestly
sympathetic to labor.
81 wish it were possible for me ad-
euuately to express an appreciation OF
the service rendered by the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ In
America. through it's representatives
who are participating with us in this
solemn and dignified service Mr..
Green said.
'"There is no bitterness. no resent
ment. in my heart and mind over the
incidents of the past week. There Is
A basis of right human relationships.
It lies deep within the conscience of
men"
The Rev DR.. Ryan reviewed the his
tory of the Catholic church as a
friends and benefactor of labor
throughout the world and lauded the
American Federation for its sane and
constructive leadership He said the
interest of humanity was the first re-
sponsiblity and the continuous duty
of the church."