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Show i ' ' ! Bishop Scores the Unions. i Bishop MoFaul, of the diocese of Trenton, on I Sunday scored labor unions as the--are being conducted- He also declared that capitalists, afu-r they had satisfied their appetites after squeezing the life blood out of their workmen, could not make restitution resti-tution in their later days by building libraries, endowing en-dowing universities or donating- organs. It was the dutv of the capitalists under God -to give their workmen a living wage instead of grinding workmen work-men down and then hoarding wealth which was not reallv theirs. . s to labor unions, the Bishop meantamed that irresponsible agitators were bringing unionism to the brink of destruction. - , ., . The great American public, said the bishop, "will'not submit to tyranny on the part of the capi-. talists or to mob rule on the part of the labor unions." .Because of unreasonable reatment. . the bishop declared, there. were some Catholic becoming affiliated with Socialism, and he declared, 'Social- ism. has wealth, a condition that will never be realized." real-ized." The birdiop declared that he was not opposed to unionism, but believed it his duty as a Catholic priest to deprecate the tendene-y toward tyranny upon up-on the part of the unions. |