HUMAN WELFARE FIRST
Catholic Conference Seeks Security for Workers
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright
(Received February 9, 11.50 pjn.) NEW YORK, February 8.
The Council of the National Catholic Welfare Conference comprising 16 Archbishops and Bishops issued a pronouncement calling for the subordination of economic power to human welfare.
The Catholic press says it is the American heirarchy’s most important announcement since 1919. The statement reaffirmed the church’s position on the ownerhip of private property and denounced the principle of supply and demand as applied to labour. It called for security for wage workers as well as a living wage to provide against the future. It called for the stabilisation of wages and prices and the establishment of the social order by media between economic individualists and socialists both of whose theories on the use of property resulted only in hard to the public.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 9
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144HUMAN WELFARE FIRST Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 9
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