The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-06
Second Part: Continued from
last Saturday.
BY Harry Cannes.
Catholic Church Wants Smooth
Methods.

urmly rooted rivals, mas been OBJ
liged to turn its attention a little away
from theology, in the direction of
sociology. Conditions of the working
class have forced the church, which
over, to introduce a reformistic labor
program. This kind, gentle mother of
many oppressed children knows she
cannot subdue those children without
giving them some sort Of soothing
syrup.
The rulers Of this powerful institu-
ton, remembering that the heyday of
the church was in the middle ages,
constantly plead for a return to the
guild system of that time. Their labor
program today is laid down by Leo
XIII, which boosts this method of
class collaboration. But nothing
dangerous! Oh, no!
Our first and most fundamental
principle" says the holy father, when
we undertake to alleviate the condition
Of the masses must be the inviolabiIi-
ty of private property"
Strikes, of course, tamper with this
sacred institution, private property.
So:
"lf by strike, or other combina-
ton of workmen, there should be
imminent danger of disturbance to
the public peace. :. there can be
no question that, within certain
limits, 1t would be right to call In
the help and authority of the law"
Nor is this the only way in which
the modern st. Peter would protect
the capitalist from the workers:
"Reliaion teaches the working
man. never to injure capital, nor
to outrage the person of an en-
ployer; never to employ violence
20 IN representing his own cause, nor
and to have nothing to do with men
of evil principles who work upon
the people with artfuI promises. :"
These men of evil principles" are
those who tell the workers to help
themselves, and not to wait for the
generous capitalist and their ally god
to help them.
Now, where, in all this, is the sooth-
ing syrup mother church promises
her children? So far it looks like a
pretty bitter dose-a stiff physic.
But listen:
There are several ways Ito say
nothing to church regularly by which
a worker can be made healthy, veal
thy and wise. The church urges CO.
operation with the bosses. She en-
dorses company unions, and all organ
izations which have a tendency to
smother the class struggle. She
breaches economy, thrift, and tells the
workers ito be content with frugal
living" She supports mild reforms, as
living wage" cries. But on one point
she is emphatic.
"Whatever may be the industrial
and social remedies which will APP
prove themselves to the American
people, there Is no one that, we feel
confident, they will never adopt
That is the method Of revolution.
For there is neither Justification nor
excuse. Through the ordinary and
orderly processes all social wrongs
can be righted."
For Kash and Krme-the ku
klux Khan.
THE most modern dress of the
i church militant is the sheet and
pillow case of the ku klux khan. These
are the -four hundred" of religion;
native, white, protestant and gentle,
and as is proper to the elite-especial-
ly hostile to labor.
The ku klux khan sprang up in the
south after the civil war, to terrify
the Negroes into submission, and
warn them against taking advantage
of their newly gained freedom. 1t has
ranantIv ravfvad aq fascist or0aniza-