Church Social Action Dept. Says
Migratory Farmers and Racial. Crisis
Pose Greatest U~S. labor Problems
The CHOR o
WASHINGTON (NC)-The joint responsibility o~ labor and business to solve th~ problems of migratory farm labor and race relations is stressed in the annual Labor Day Statement issued today by the Social Action Department, NatiQnal ,Catholic Welfare Conference; "Labor Day in the United States nQ longer belongs to labor exclusively but 3hould now be regarded 'as ' troversy," 'the nationally recog a kind of all-American holinized labo~ expert, asserts. day," says Msgr. George G. Most, he contends, recognize Higgins, department directhat labor unions are useful and 4
tor, who prepared the statement.
are here to stay, but "too few Americans in positions of influDiscussing the problem of ence al'e prepared, to go the migratory farm labor, Msgl'. whole way and to take the un J:(iggins pointed out that Pope qualified position that secure Paul VI, in commemorating the and stable unions are an essen 75th anniversary of Leo XIII's tial, not to say indispensable encycHcal,: On the Condition of prerequisite of a 'sound sociaU Labor re-emphasized the basic ol'der."
right of w!>rkers to organize. Even worse,' the District of
'. Many question the necessity of Columbia prelate declares, :tlw:
re-emphasizing such an elemenefforts of many workers to or tary and fundamental principle ganize a're still being thwarted!
but "the, answer to this is that and this is particularly true foil' even in the United States, which, migratory farm workers. rightly or wrongly, prides itself "Time after time during the $4.00 per Year on being the most 'advanced of past half-ceritury," Msgr. Hig~ '. PRICE lOc all the industrialized nations in gins comments, "their efforts ~ 'the world, the right to o r g a n i z e , o l ' g a n i z e have been blocked." far from being universally rec.. "It is gratifying to note, how ognized,as a self-evident princiever, that" at long last"the tide "pIe of social ethics, is, indeed, 'is beginning . to turn in favor oli: .. still very much 'a matter of' oon- 'MSGR. GEORGE 6. HIGGINS ''J.:urn to Page Fourteen
~IfGII Rivell'oMass./1 Tlhursday,Sept.l, '1966 ,~ol.
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:Bis~op K~II,y
to 'Conduct 'Priests~ Annual Retreat""
Most Rev. Bernard M. Kelly, D.D., J.C.D.,·Auxiliary
JJtishop of the Providence Diocese, will cQnduct the annual
,!Iletreat for Fall RiverDiocesan priests at the Retreat House, ,
'<lathedral Camp, East Freetown, beginning next Monday
Most Rev. James L. Con- 'might. The" 48-year old pre :nolly, Bishop of Fall River. !tome, Catholic University' The 'lJate was" grad lui ted front ,ological College and Sulpicial\ tod~y announced some "re '1Blessed Sacrament School Washington. -alistic" adjustments 'in the :aftd La' Salle "Academy in Seminary, Ordained June 3, 1944 i~ 5S.
.Diocese· ~oises· Sisters' Salaries
'!Providence and 'attehde'd' Provi Peter an,d Pa~l Cathedral, Prov 'Iilence College for two' years. He idence, by, the t~en Bishop ,(jompleted' his .'studies for the '!<:eough, 1 ate r ,Arc}lbishop' liriesthood at ~ateran Universit,V, Keough of BaltimQre, he cele brated his first solemn·'Mas.s on . : the following daY., in Blessed :S~crai'llent Church. ' , , Bishop Kelly servedpa'rishes 1n Conimicut, Carolina' and Prov idence, was chaplain at Elmhurst Academy and Mother of Hope Novitiate, and taugl:tt at La Salle Academy and Our Lady 'of Providence Seminary. He, was named diocesan director of the Christophers in 1950 and spirTw-.14 iG P28e Fow-tee.n
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:salaries of teaching Sisters in the Dioces~ of Fall River. : The increases were recom 'mended to the Ordinary by the 'Diocesan Board of Education .following' a consultation and voting 'last, week. The' new' sal 'ary schedule is effe'Ctive today. All Siste'rs apprOved for ,teaching by' the Diocesan, De partment of Education, in ele-, ,mentary and. high schools -wit I receive an annual salary of ',$1200. Sisters who possess a Bache lor's degree will, receive an an.:. nual salary of $1300 while ,pos sessors of Masters' degrees will ,
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Bishop Accepts
School Board P~oposal 'recei"ve 'an annual salary of :$HOQ.:': ' Sisters living in a convent 'owile~ 'and . oper~ted by their ,ReIigfousGommun'itywill be given an. additional $100 per, 'Yeai':-" '," '
The Bishop stated that it is hili intention a'nd the recommenda tion of the Board that these in cI'eased salaries' will' eliminate the necessity of. asking children in our schools to sell merchan dise, chances, and, the 'like fOIr ..the benefit of, the Sisters or th~ school. This new regulation will af ,fect 578 teaching ,sis,ters in th~' 64 elementary schools and 13 'high, 'schools .throughout the Diocese. .
:24,52'4 Ready forSc~,ool More th:m 24,000 students will answ:er the school belli on Wednesday morning, Sept. 7, as it is sounded in 13 :high schools and 64 elementary schools throughout the Diocese. ~econdary educatiolUil facilities throughout the area will ;serve 5,368 stu-, dents. This. is an increase Over presious years because the first freshman class of 175 boys will coine under the instruction of the Jesuit Fathers Who have accepted to staff the new Boys' High School named im Turn to Page Fifteen
!I'.IlIEUT.
JOHN w. PEGNAM (ChC.) USN
·Fr. Pegnam Cited in Viet Ham' : Lieut. JQhn W. Pegnam ~ChC.) USN has been award 00 the Secretary of the Navy ®ommendation for Achieve tnent in the performance of his ~ties as Staff Chaplain foil' eomnlander Ainphibious Ready' Ilill'oup duing the period from RE~DY TO GO: There'll be a. Liarikos youngst~r ~n almost every grade of St. Joseph's lGilt. 5 to April 6, 1966 at Viet School, New Bedfqt:d, come next Wednesday. From left, the seven children of Mr. and Mrs. DrQll\. ~ J'be ,901\ of Mrs. MarlQil ~oh~~ Liarikosare Katherine Anne, 4; Jay" Michael, 6; Anne Marie, 8; Diana Marie, 9; Marc ~ Turn to Page Nineteen Albert, 10,; John Jr\. 12: Jeamrine. 13. " ' ' , :
Orienta~ion Day At Boys~' High'
On Sept. 7 . Rev: John G. Cornellier,
, S,J., 'principal of the new Bishop Connolly High School fQr boys in Fall River, an nounced today ,that on Wednes day morning, Sept. 7, at 8:30, an orientation program will be conducted for the incoming fresliman class, at the St. Wil liam's CCD Center, Stafford Rd., Fall River. On Thursday morning, Sept. ", Ma1ls will be offered' at 8:30 in St. William's Church, 'Chicago Street" ,as the'. first 6ull school day starts., ' " Relatives and friends are in vited, to offer-ttlis Mass' with tIie
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