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/ 6961 Wi circle Ie guoe sirilee (Continued from page 1) the presupposi- think ing far more compatiblc to~ the socio-political prejudices of Time or Newsweek than to the valid social teachings .o the Vicar of Christ. havo particularly in mind the extraordinarily high pri ority these clericai spokesmen farm labor union. Thcy seem regard a labor union the sunmum bonum, the ulti- mate good .or at Jeast an -absolute.necessity ing worker justicc.This is not for secur thinking of the.Supreme Pontiffs It is true that Pope Pius X in his encyclical, Quadragesi- mo Anno, deplored the crim- inal injustice" of those heads of statcs who denied to the cconomically weak "the na- fural right to form tions associa- the hands of the powerful." ing the hazard of organized violence. It is only under the com- F.Konnedy. pulsion of necessity, therefore, that. he people who fancy thenselves their mutunl. champions of"Catholic social spirit of human solidarity an relations in thought. accordance with the bond of Christian brotherhood. For vision is made to imbue Cath- Quadrcgesimo Anno, the unregulated Pope Pius complained that "as which competition olic members with ihe prin-- the situation now stands, hir. so-called liberals pouse,or the class.struggle in ing and offering for hire in the Marxist sense, are ulterly the so-called labor market opposed to Christian toaching But the Pope docs not con.. separates men inio two divi- and also to the very nature of r.sider. the sions, as into two battie lines, man. (n.23.) ideai. while he concedes the "matural right" divisions. turns the labor mon io form unions "0 de- market iiself almost into realized in the grape fields fend themselves' from the battlefield where, face to face, of California is far closer to unscxupulous, he deplorcs the Busoddo struggle this Catlolic ideal thnn is the fact that. thjs is cver bitterjy Organization along Union proposed by Cesar Cha- neces such "batilelincs" is quite ac sary; and he sirongly reeun- and his promoicrs. ceptable to anyone interested class conflict, The Iess inherently rclationship.of cr lines the ienicd to conflict.. but it should.be quite unsatis- growers and workers.in This Jano is quite closc, It is true De- eve acknowledged by that out in thc fields there is sufficientiy a crew boss to supervise. the lic social traching. prosonce of workers the "Everyo n e understands," ne reprcsents continuss the Pope "hat this the presence c of the boss he reprosents the work-- all hunan sociely to destruc- that thcre is no communica tion beiween the boss and thu will not Of one of the Delano workers. workerBeatice Aglipay,wife position has beeni. abolished and well-ordered nembers of said of the workers: "They the social body Indiustries can talk to their bosses any- and Professions are time; hav no problom stituted in which nen rnay communicating, none 'at all!" Have thcir pince, As for the bosses: "They're the' position cach has out in ficld They .every day the Jabor market but cording to the respective soci ac name The majority alfunctions-which-each-per the growers are forms.-(The- Pope. envisaged. considcrate o their workors and-reallyla here organizations along the lines.ofthc.old.guilds.in.syhich workers anc worked together with Chris- tian respeet and'concern each other.) for Here we havcin broad out lines authoritative Catholic source the organiza- tional sector. Altliough it was delin oated in 193lit is stin brand a light hidden under bushel, almost ignored .by OL "Catholic public hcaring It is still. the genuinc Catholic social lcach- ing and it is still pertinent. In his cncyclical, gistra,' "Pope John XxIII rc- minds us ihat."workrers and empioyers should. regulale