Show ASKS FOR FOB WORKMEN protestant CHURCH ISSUES S pronouncement ON SOCIAL reconstruction i laborers right to share 1 in n control of industry Is set forth at meeting of federal council of churches ne new w Y york 0 r k july 13 the protestant church of tills this country represented in tile the federal council ot of churches of christ in america issued a declaration that the state should ot attempt tempt to secure to the worker on an income sufficient to maintain his family as a standard ot of living which the community can approve this was part of a pronouncement on the he attitude of the church toward social reconstruction which was drawn up by the lie commission on the church and social service of the federal council the federal coi council inell Is a congress of thirty leading christian bodies tor for the statement asserts that it Is a false idea that the lie churches are only concerned with religious educational and charitable enterprises they are or should be vitally concerned with civic economic and other social interests 11 rights of working men to share in the control of industries are set forth in this statement at length we have cou come I 1 e upon dunles when people a agrenot i re enot to injustice or to unnecessary privation and suffering declares the file church commission they are arc deeply and justly till in earnest it those who are the lie actual industrial political and social leaders of the nation will not act upon the principle that tile greatest shall ile be the servant of till all theia the people themselves with indignation dig nation and bitterness are sure to take their destiny and that of the world into their own hands class consciousness and the use of violence tire are not confined to the alie revolutionary lutio nary groups the possession of wealth and education tend to the formation of classes and industrial ownership and management to a class conscious ruling group we observe the dangerous tendency of many state and municipal officials to deny fair hearings hearing q to radical offenders and to use unnecessary and provocative brutality during strikes |