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Show Labor Unions Enormous Force in the Movement for Human Betterment By JOHN H, WALKER, President Illinois Federation of Labor. The labor movement is doing more to establish the proper Christian relationship as advocated by Jesus Christ between men on earth than any other institution. Were those two great organizations (trade unionism and Christianity) working together in the cause of human betterment, this world would soon become a better place to live in. j All through the Bible you find paragraphs which urge patience, tolerance, tol-erance, broad-mindedness, kindness, knowledge and understanding. Christ makes clear that these qualities are of greater value than the material things of life. How much more necessary are they now than then, when the means of making a livelihood are so much more complicated. compli-cated. President Gompers said that 10 cents an hour increase in the pay envelope of a working man whose mind was harassed with the worry of not being able to provide for a family properly would do more to develop culture and spirituality in that man and his wife, not to mention its re- fiex effect upon the family and his associates, than all the preaching and j philosophizing in the world. Every trade unionist should he a Christian. Every Christian who is eligible to membership should be a trade unionist. |
