The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-29
CHURCH URGED
TO APPLY JESUS
TEXT TO WORK
Federal Council of Churches
Issues Big State
ment.

That the church should contin-
ually emphasize "the application of
the teachings Of Jesus in every IN
dustrial relation" is the keynote
of the Labor Sunday message issued
by the Federal Council of Churches
today.
The statement was prepared by
the commission on the church and
social service in accordance with its
annual practice of using the Sum
day before Labor Day as an occa-
sion for calling attention to the
common moral issues to which both
labor and religion are committed"
The Message records special salts
faction in the increasing coopera-
ton between management and
labor in many industrial concerns.
1.-THE spirit of good WILL" the state
ment declares, expressed in adj
vancing forms of industrial CO.
operation can reconcile the differ
ences between management and
men, and eliminate the human and
material wastes of conflict"
The Message
The message records special salts
day by Rev. Worth M. Tippy, D. D.,
social service secretary for the Fed
Grated Council of Churches, is in
part as follows:
"On this Sunday, devoted to the
cause of Labor, it is appropriate for
every church to reaffirm its support
and allegiance to the common moral
issues to which botli labor and reli-
gion are committed. The church
holds that human personality is sa-
cred, and opposes all forms Of ex-
ploitation and human degradation.
It protests against the employment
Of children of tender years in denial
Of their right to growth and educa-
ton, and the employment of men
and women for overriding periods of
labor. 1t stands for the payment of
wages sufficient both to sustain and
to enhance life, the right of work.
ers to bargain collectively through
representatives of their own choos-
ing, and protection against unem-
ployment and ocC upational accidents
and diseases.
The Right Way
1T is fitting, too, that every
church should continually affirm it's
belief in the application of the prin-
ciples of Jesus in every industrial
relation. The spirit of goodwill ex-
pressed in advancing forms of indus
trial cooperation can reconcile the
differences between management and
men, and eliminate the human and
material wastes of conflict. That
these statements are not vague
ideals, but are actual programs COM
ing to pass, Is shown by the pro-
poSals Of the American Federation
of Labor for cooperation with man
agement to increase efficiency and
production, and by the growing
number of instances where labor
and management are actually work
ing together for these same pur-
poses.
"Unceasing concern for the lot of
the workers, their wives and children,
is the inevitable expression by the
churches of that love which led
Christ to turn to the mu1titudes and
to become the passionate advocate
Of their welfare. The labor move
ment is the self-conscious organized
expression of the workers struggle
for a more abundant life.
1T is impossible for the Church
Of Christ to. devote itself passion
ately to the welfare of the masses
Of the people and not to have SYM
pathetic relations with organized Ia
Dor. This does not mean that the
church should become partisan, but
rather that it must fulfill the COM
mands Of Christ in expressing His
intense human interest.
I'm fact, the church has a right
to expect the support of its mem
hers, in principle at least, in its eff
forts to lift the status of the under
privileged. In striving for the better
life for them the church finds itself
touching elbows with labor, and
they together may perform great
service in the promotion of more
just and brotherly order in America"
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