The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-25
SESSION OPENS MAY 1 TO SCAN
 SOCIAL ACTION
Capital and Labor to Be Heard at Catholic
 Conference
BY ERWIN w. KIECKHEFER United Press Staff Correspondent)


 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Milwaukee, April 25 - CUP) - Capital and labor, educators and professional men are to meet here May IA in an earnest, non-politi- cal impartial attempt to apply Christian principles to present economic problems, and see what has been done within major indus tries to apply these principles"
 The occasion will be the first National Catholic Social Action conference, series of meetings, conferences and discussions spon- sored by the hierarchy Of the Catholic church of America.
 More than 150 representatives ot business, labor, government and the church are scheduled to discuss the relationship between capital, labor and the church at two mass meet ings, two general conferences and 16 sectional meetings. In addition, all who attend the conference are invited to A group discussions ot almost as many industries ana professions.
 All Sides To Be Heard
 Three speakers will be present at each sectional meeting, one representing management, another labor, and the third an impartial observer, according to Leo F. Dohn, executive secretary of the confer ence.
 Under discussion at these sectional meetings will be proletarian and industrial insecurity, finance ana credit, youth in industry, the legal and medical professions, agriculture, automobiles, railroads, steel, packing insurance, coal and the printing needle and building trades and women in industry.
 Following the sectional meetings, delegates will adjourn to thelr group discussions, where recom- mendations and conclusions of the sectional meetings will be discussed in open forum. The 42 discussion groups have been broken down to offer closer scrutiny of the prob lens discussed in the sectional meetings.
 Social Order Discussion
 Delegates attending the mass meetings will hear discussions of "A Christian Social Order and the Church" and "A Christian Social Order and the State"
 lsrsgr. Joseph M. Corrigan, rector of the Catholic University, Wash ington, is to conduct mass meet ing on "The Church, Patron of a Christian Social Order" Arch bishop John T. McNicholas of Cin- cinnati, O., is to speak on Plus X1, Teacher of the Christian Social Order"
 Other speakers at the large meetings will be Archbishop Ed ward Mooney of Detroit and Arch bishop Samuel A. Stritch of Mil waukee, under whose patronage the conference is being presented.
 Among speakers scheduled to appear at the sectional meetings are Bishop Robert E. Lucey of Amarillo, Tex; Prof. Goetz Briefs of Georgetown University; pr. Frank O'Hara of Catholic Univer- sity: Henry Somerville, editor of the Catholic Register, Toronto, who will discuss the phases of in security.
 Banker on Program
 nj. .1 nf T0ln6n n .. Seminary, Baltimore; M lc o l m Prof. John F. Cronin, of St. Mary's Bryan, vice governor of the Fed eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta. and R. Dana Skinner, New York, are to discuss finance and credit.
 The meeting on youth in indus try will hear Dr. Homer P. Rainey director of the American Youth Commission; William Campbell Illinois IVA director, and the Rev. Vincent Mooney, Washing ton, director of the Catholic youth bureau of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
 Non-Catholics as well as Cath olics have been invited to attend the sessions. More than 5000 del egates are expected. In addition tc these registered delegates, hun dreds of others are expected to at- tend, for the doors of the confer ence are to be thrown open to the public. Only those who are regis tered will be permitted to partici- pate in the conference, however.