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Show ASKS LUG WAGE FORJpiN PROTESTANT CHURCH ISSUES PRONOUNCEMENT ON SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION. Laborers' Right to Share in Control of Industry Is Set Forth at Meeting Meet-ing of Federal Council of Churches. New Tork, July 13. The Protestant Protest-ant church of this country represented in the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America issued a declaration that the state should "attempt to secure se-cure to the worker an income sufficient suffi-cient to maintain his family as a standard stand-ard of living which the community can approve." This was part of a pronouncement on the attitude of the church toward social reconstruction which was drawn up by the commission on the church and social service of the federal council. coun-cil. The federal council is a congress of thirty leading Christian bodies for united action. The statement asserts that "it is a false idea that the churches are only concerned with religious, educational and charitable enterprises. They are, or should be, vitally concerned with civic, economic and other social interests." inter-ests." Rights of working men to share in the control of industries are set forth in this statement at length. "We have come upon times when people are not submissive to injustice or to unnecessary unneces-sary privation and suffering," declares the church commission. "They are deeply and justly in earnest. If those who are the actual industrial, political politi-cal and social leaders of the nation will not act upon the principle that the greatest shall be the servant of all, then the people themselves, with indignation in-dignation and bitterness, are sure to take their destiny and that of the world into their own hands. "Class consciousness and the use of violence are not confined to the revolutionary revo-lutionary groups. The possession of wealth and education tend to the formation for-mation of classes, and industrial ownership own-ership and management to a class conscious con-scious ruling group. We observe the dangerous tendency of many state and municipal officials to deny fair hearings hear-ings to radical offenders and to use unnecessary and provocative brutality during strikes. |