CHURCH AND WORKERS..

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 4 March 1920, Page 4

CHURCH AND WORKERS..

United Press Association —By Elec trie Telegraph-Copyright. Received March 4, 10 a.m. Sydney, March 4. A feature of the Methodist Conference is the extensive discussions on the relations between the church and the workers. The workers’ position generally is being debated, and a pronouncement is to be submitted to the General Conference on the Christianising of social relations. This, inter aliia, condemns profiteering ,gud the present anarchic unconstitutional methods of seeking redress, and favours an economic system which will ensure the equitable distribution of the rewards of industry, giving the workers a share in the profits and risks of the business, and that will abolish all forms of sweating, profiteering and oppression of one section of the community by another. It declares that the Church cannot stand aloof from the toilers’ struggle for more wholesome conditions of life. lis aim should bo the Christianising of industrial relations so that industry will become a religious experience, interpreting in economic terms the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God.