Evening star., 1937-09-29
CATHOLIC WOMEN
NAMING LEADERS
Brophy, C. |. 0. Director,
Makes UnSchedu|ed Ap-
pearanCe at Session.

Alter hearing charges by John
Brophy. director of the Committee for
Industrial Organization. that anti
labor elements are using the threat
of communism as weapon against
labor interests, the seventeenth an
nual convention of the National Coun-
Gil OF Catholic Women today entered
Its closing sessions with election OF Of
flcers as one of the principal orders
of business.
The convention is to close tonight
with banquet at the Mayflower Hotel.
where all sessions have been held The
banquet will be followed by a SYM
postum on Making Catholic Thought
Articulate"
Ballotlng for new officers was in
progress today. with results to be an
nounced during the afternoon. To-
days program. which opened with a
mass at st. Matthews Church for liv-
ing and deceased members. also was to
include adoption of resolutions.
Delegates forecast reelection of Miss
Katherine r. Williams of Milwaukee
as president. The president will be
named by the board, to which seven
new members were being elected today.
Candidates reported as virtually as
sured of election to the board were
Mrs. Stephen Gaffney, Portland. Me:
Mrs. Eugene Mccarthy, Cleveland:
Miss Pauline Casey Scranton. Pa.
Mrs. Thomas Dignan Glasgow, Mont:
Mrs. Dan Burns, Ell Paso, Tex; Mrs.
E. H. Skae, Detroit. and Mrs. John
Alcher, San Francisco.
Brophy's Appearance Unscheduled.
Brophy whose wife is active in the
convention, made an unexpected and
unscheduled appearance before the
council. The labor leader, who has
son studying for the priesthood. had
dropped in to listen to a round-table
discussion of industrial problems. He
was recognized by Dr. Elizabeth
Christmsn, executive secretary of the
National Women's Trade Union
League, who had just addressed the
meeting on the value of trade union
organization and collective bargaining
for women workers.
Brophy agreed to answer questions
ano IN reply to one Of them, admitted
that there are Communists in the c.
l. o. This is so, he said. because labor
unions have to take the workers that
employees have brought together and
that employees are not questioned about
political Affiliations.
He declared that communism is be-
ing used as "a bugaboo" to scare peo-
ple,' and voiced the belief that COM
after all lis the outerowth
OF the denial of workers rights
thing that has grown out of the soil of
repression and oppression.
Cause Of Labor Strife.
Ihe real cause Of labor strif in the
United States. Brophy said, is not
communism, but the failure of en-
ployers to recognize the right of labor
TO organize and bargain collectively.
With the recognition Of this principle
ne said, peace takes the place of tur-
MOL.
At last nights session Most Rev.
James E. Kearney, Bishop of Salt
Lake and bishop-elect Of Rochester
denounced the eommunistic philoso-
pny. America must choose between two
"the atheistic-commun-
lstic philosophy Of life which SAWS
that man is only an economic ami
NAL, and the Christian philosophy
which holds that man is creature
composed of body and soul and made
TO the image and likeness of God"
II the communistic view is allowed
70 prevail, he warned, the result will
be social order in which no man
Will be satisfied with his economic lot
ana all will seek their living At the
expense Of the state, losing their God
given dignity and sense of moral re-
sponsibility.
fouth's Problems Discussed.
Inc council devoted much OF YES
terday's session to problems of modern
youth. Miss Ann S. Hooley of Kansas
City decried the modern tendency
10 blot beauty out Of the life of youth
substituting motion picture stories Of
CRIME. RIGHTEOUSNESS and shallow liv-
ing, cheap literature and propaganda
dealing with communism. materialism
and war.
Most Rev. Michael j. Ready oen.
era secretary to the National Catholic
weliare Conference, characterized
fhooern times as "the age Of youth"