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Show Pope Leo and the Toiler. At 'the congress held at Cologne during, dur-ing, the first week of October for the purpose of securing legal protection for the working classes, Pope Leo XIII was represented, by Count Soderini, whom his holiness sent from Rome for that purpose. The pontifical delegate was the bearer of a letter from, the cardinal secretary of state, in which the letter expressed the holy father's wishes for the success suc-cess of the congress. Twenty-three governments were represented, rep-resented, but the president of the gathering gath-ering singled out Leo XIII among them all for his lifelong and enthusiastic enthusi-astic advocacy of the . rights of the working man. Count Soderinin, by the pope's instructions, proposed two resolutions reso-lutions in the congress, both of which I were carried. The first was that a committee be formed to study the best means for permitting workers in the different trades, and especially women, to work in their homes instead of in factories, where this is possible; and the second, to adopt efficient means for stepping the atrocious buying and selling sell-ing of children for factory work, which goes on through a large part of the continent, and to prevent the little ones from being empolyed in work beyond their strength. A permanent international interna-tional committee has been appointed to promote the object of the league, of which Count Soderni.'who has always taken a leading part in social move-vents move-vents in Italy, is a member. |
