The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-05

fallen shattered ct our feet. A new world must be bullt-not by simply putting together the pieces of the past, but by selecting only those portions of the past which respect the rights of God and the rights of man and leaving to Q deserved fate those parts of the structure the in- justice of which was the great weakness of our civilization,
 THE JOB TO BE DONE
 That new world must be Q better world. That new world must have little room for the economic inse. curity of the masses which in the past has bred nothing but Slunls, poverty and disease,
 Freedom, if it is worth dying for, must guarantee it's defenders their right to security, their right to Q job, their right to conditions of food, clothing and shelter that beflt their dignity as children of God created to return to God and en- titled to live on earth in Q manner conducive to that return. No more will economic slavery be endured In silence, The notion that civil liberty means the right to starve has been, thank God, buried forever,
 Today as we catch sight of him in the dust raised by the crash of our civilization we see that the man who will play the major roll, per. haps the hero's roll, in the building of the new world Is the man who works with his hands for Q living. Today for the first time in centur- les. if he is awake to his power, he will have 6 share in the shape of the future. As never before in his- tory the common man has been lifted up before the world for the roll he has played in the drama of the clashlng armies. The worker and the warrior hold the hope of the future.
 OBLIGATION OF CATHOLIC
 On this Labor Day coming as lt does in the crisis of Christianity it seems that we Catholics must build in our hearts Q deep realization of the obligation that IS ours. Tn our heritage of Catholic social teachings wO have the one complete and prac- teal program of social reform, c program that ell men who believe In dod can subscribe to and heartily endorse, a program that once blsilt the one just social order that the world has ever known and . pro. gram that has in itself the inherent strength to rebuilt our unhappy world.
 Ours it is not Q program directed against the rich and the capitalists but against the greedy rich and the interruptions capitalists. Ours in not 6 pFgram that emphasizes rights and says nothing of dutiesl the obligations of rights and duties are It's framework. Our program does not emphasize class war. hatred and violence; 1t jrgists that q better social order can be built only when men willinRlv respect their rights to God and their rights to their Sellowmefl.
 ORGANIZED LABOR AND
 THE CHURCH
 But how poorly do SO many of our Catholic people understand the Church's social program! How many of them are so blissfuily ignorant of the Churcl's attitude toward the organization of labor and their obligations to aid in helping other to the opportunity to live in Q manner in which they can save their souls. And how many souls are lost because of povertyl
 4 half Q century ago Pope Leo XIII laid down the official teach. ing of the Church when he not only defended the right of labor to organize but asked for the wide. spread organization of labor. He said that the wretched condition of the laboring classes was the press. ing question of the hour and, as he expressed 1t, "a remedy must be found, and quickly, for the wretch edness. and misery pressing so heav. fly on the vast majority of the working classes" Forty years later Plus XI told Us to: "Go to the working man, particularly where he is poor"
 orRanized labor has its faults. There are racketeers and there are radicals. There are leaders with political ambitions, leaders with theological ambitions and leaders whose only ambition is greed. This