The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-09-13
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a profit or labor entitled to a wage
he said.
The New Orleans priest said tn,
federal government can take money
away from, us because every man i!
entitled to the minimum, and prop
erty must be put to a useful socia
purpose. "This is not clear to the
American people, American manage
ment or American labor, he said.
"The income tax amendment OF
1913 helped save capitalism, Twom-
ey said, adding, tread and see how
much social conscience they oman
agement) had +. rugged individual
ism forced the government to act".
We are not going to be able to
preserve political democracy, he
emphasized, unless we have a salts
factory degree of economic democ-
racy and self-government within
the economic community with re-
sponsible collective bargaining be-
tween management and labor.
Pat Greenhouse, Detroit, United
Auto workers vice president, speak
ing at the Thursday evening banquet,
spoke of the urgency of time when
he asked what we do with the year
of time we buy each year with our
billions for defense. We can kill
every man, woman and child $50
times over yet we still don't feel
safe, he said.
We need to be for peace and have
an understanding of something be-
sides the arms race, he said. We can
have freedom and bread and show the
Communists we are not afraid to
compete in the arena of ideas.
He called for strong liberal
voice to counter the voice of re-
action in this country and said
labor should provide that leader
ship.
Greenhouse noted that some people
say we are heading for a world with
out work and said, chow do we live
in a world without work and a world
of abundance; maybe this will never
be, but we can at least live in world
without want.
There is a great need for people
to adapt themselves to the changing
times. Programs have to change to
adapt themselves to need and some
one has to pioneer in ideas, be the
of America and take I'M
popular positions if this country is
to progress, he said.
The concept of man and the dig
nifty of the human person was dis
cussed by Rev. Joe Mackin, Dept. of |
L Ta11 un1o
who said the virtue of social justice |
is just as real as any other type of |
Justice and he contended that private
is subordinate to the COM /
mon good.
He said that racial discrimination is
a sin against justice and charity.
The urgency of time was put in
the context of the march for freedom
all over the world.
Ted Silvey, who participated in
he Freedom March in Washington,
D. c., October %, gave description
IF how the event looked through his
eyes.
Pat Greenhouse said the UAW signs
carried in the parade read, "When-
ever men march for freedom the
JAW marches also.
Jim Patton, national president of
he Farmers Union said, "we are 60
ng through the greatest revolution
Try period since the original war;.
Father Twomey said each of us is
aught up in what is undoubtedly one ]
# the greatest crises in history and !
We can't disassociate ourselves, be-
ause we are intimately involved. He /
described the crisis as ga very simple Is
hing. ''It is the denial of the basic
lights of the human person, aggra-
ated by a world force which has
capitalized on the uncharitable denial {
f basic rights of thousands of human {
eing throughout the world, he said. {
He said the western world is large
Y responsible for the situation as it
revails today and while we have had c
imilar if not as serious incidents in
istory the ingredient lacking in the I
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