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PAGE 8—The Georgia Bulletin, March 30,1972
261-1971
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FATHER FRANCIS of the Trappist Monastery feeding the
conference participants. From left, Bishops Senneker, Maloney,
Schnexnayder, Waters and Flaherty, Archbishops McDonough
and Donnellan.
35 Bishops Come To Conyers
BY MARIE MULVENNA
Thirty-five U.S. Bishops
gathered at the Abbey of Our
Lady of the Holy Spirit in
Conyers last week for a
three-day workshop on social
development, sponsored by
the United States Catholic
Conference.
Archbishop Thomas A.
Donnellan welcomed the
group which convened at the
local Trappist monastery to
review the major social
problems in modern society.
Other Atlantans taking part
in the session were Fr. Jake
Bollmer, director of social
services for the archdiocese,
Fr. Tony Morris, director of
the Georgia Catholic
Conference, and Clint
Rodgers, chairman of the
Catholic Social Services
board.
At the opening session, the
only session open to the
press, the bishops and
speakers discussed
rural/urban and farm/city
relations, with specific
attention paid to problems
germane to the diocese of the
bishops attending.
Bishop Raymond J.
Gallagher, chairman of the
committee on social
development of the U.S.C.C.,
opened the gathering with a
review of the purposes of the
organization, which holds
regional conferences
throughout the country to
discuss problems pertinent to
those areas and problems
facing the country as a whole.
Bishop Gallagher stated the
bishops must respond in a
concrete way to the necessity
of being constantly familiar
with the changing scene,
adding that it was a necessity
that the leadership role be
assumed and daily
implemented in the dioceses.
He termed it imperative that
there be leadership “which
will enable us in the name of
the Church to provide an
effective antidote to the evils
around us.”
Central issues of social
development were presented
by John E. Cosgrove, director
of the department of social
development of the U.S.C.C.
Cosgrove highlighted the
problems of rural life
including the growing trend
to ownership of farms by
large corporations, the
exodus from farming areas
and corresponding influx into
urban sections which now
have 70% of Americans
crowded into 2% of the
nation’s land mass. He also
pinpointed personal issues
such as the lack of medical
and legal services, problems
which he stated must be
dealt with. Cosgrove also
briefly discussed the
problems surrounding
unemployment, a subject on
which he stated, “I do not see
substantial improvement in
the next six months.” He
spoke of racism, which he
termed “the antithesis of the
ideal of the brotherhood of
man under the fatherhood of
God.” He spoke too of family
life, which he said was
threatened on all sides by
pressures concerning family
limitation, birth control,
abortion and sterilization.
Cosgrove told the
assembled bishops: “We have
the resources and the
know-how, the religious
tradition and political
framework to meet the social
problems, even of today’s
dimensions. We may lack the
will. To mobilize the will of
the country may be the
unique service which must be
rendered by the People of
God, this year and this
decade, to seek social
justice.”
Fr. John McRaith,
co-director of the rural life
division of the U.S.C.C.,
briefly discussed the rural
problems of the nation,
stating that 12 million people
are poor in rural America
compared to 8 million in the
inner city, a fact he felt was
partly due to the
conglomerate acquisition of
farming lands.
The urban dimension of
the workshop was presented
by Clint Rodgers, newly
named director of the state
office of O.E.O. Rodgers said
one of the most crucial issues
was the influx into larger
cities and the national outcry
for more resources. He
outlined the problems of
taxation, revenue sharing
(which he opposed), training
of work forces, the
emergence of black political
strength and area planning
and development (which he
termed a failure). Rodgers
wound up his presentation
with a strong plea that “the
Church must put its mouth
where its money is” in coping
with the current problems
besetting society.
A number of the bishops
participating in the workshop
echoed the problem of large
numbers of families in their
respective dioceses leaving
rural areas and moving into
cities. Opinions were voiced
that government had spent
billions on the large farmer
and next to nothing on the
small farmer. The bishops
discussed the need for getting
proper and qualified people
into the effective planning
positions and the need for the
Church to speak out when
something is wrong or
immoral.
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Abortion Endorsement Draws Fire
BY LOUIS A. PANARALE
(NC News Service)
President Nixon’s
population policy
commission had stressed that
it did not want to put too
much emphasis on the role
that liberalized abortions
would play in slowing down
population growth. But when
the dust began to settle from
the initial outcries of protest
over the commission’s report,
the abortion recommenda
tions appeared to be the
commission’s biggest
headache.
The first, and one of the
strongest, statements came
from Msgr. James McHugh of
the U.S. Catholic
Conference’s Family Life
Division who scored the
report and said it should be
treated with “benign
neglect.”
Then same other
opposition.
Women Concerned for the
Unborn Child, a Pittsburgh
organization, and
Pennsylvanians for Human
Life, a Harrisburg group,
rejected the concept that
population control means
economic betterment for
families.
Dr. Joseph R. Stanton,
president of the Value of Life
Committee (VOLCOM),
described as a non-sectarian
Massachusetts corporation,
wrote a letter of protest to
President Nixon.
Stanton said the
commission’s recommenda
tions on abortion “are
blatantly and deliberately
propagandistic. They should
be so recognized and
repudiated forthwith.”
Saying that “an
overwhelming majority of
Americans” share VOLCOM’s
position, Stanton asked
President Nixon for “instant
rejection of the purported
findings and the sweeping
propagandist abortion
recommendations.”
Another letter to the
President came from George
H. Williams. national
chairman of Americans
United for Life, a
Washington, D.C. corporation
which also described itself as
an interfaith group.
“The commission is gravely
mistaken in assuming that i:
sanctioning abortion as a
back-stop to contraception it
can calmly proceed to the
‘improvement’ of ‘quality of
American life’,” Williams
said.
The National Right to Life
Committee, Washington,
D.C., issued a statement
criticizing the commission for
giving recommendations on
abortion “in an irresponsible
and high-handed manner.”
Sister Janet
Reports
(Sr. Janet Valente is director of the Archdiocesan Office of Urban Affairs.)
At 10:00 A.M. on
Thursday, March 9, 1972
attorneys for the National
Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) filed a petition in the
federal district court in
Fresno, Ca., requesting a
nationwide injunction against
the United Farm Workers
boycott. The theory of the
NLRB action
is that United
Farm Workers
is a “labor
organization”
within the
meaning of the
NLRA and
that UFW is
therefore
prohibited Sr - Janet
from engaging in consumer
secondary boycotts even
though farm workers are not
entitled to any of the benefits
or protections of the federal
labor relations law.
1) Agribusiness interests
have kept farm workers
outside the protections of the
National Labor Relations Act
(NLRA) since 1935.
2) Denied the protections
of the law, the Delano grape
strikers developed the grape
boycott as their most
effective force for non-violent
change.
3) For several years
growers have pressured the
NLRB to use the law to stop
the boycott even though farm
workers are not covered by
the NLRA (the NLRB
administers the NLRA: it has
5 members appointed by the
President for 4-year terms;
Republicans now have a 3-2
majority on the Board).
4) The NLRB has
repeatedly refused to
intervene in the boycott,
arguing that since the law
does not protect farm
workers it cannot be used to
punish farm workers. As
recently as March 15, 1971,
the NLRB wrote UFWOC
confirming that they were
not a “labor organization” as
defined by the law and thus
were not covered by the
secondary boycott
restrictions of the law.
5) In the summer of 1971,
President Nixon appointed
Republican Peter Nash as
General Counsel of the
NLRB. Mr. Nash has now
done what no previous
General Counsel has been
willing to do: he has filed a
formal complaint against the
UFW and has gone to court
for a temporary injunction
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against the boycott. The
court hearing will be April 6,
1972.
Cesar Chavez has accused
the Republican Party of
twisting and subverting the
law in order to destroy the
farm workers’ movement. If
Mr. Nash and the Republican
Party succeed on April 6th
they can effectively end the
boycott.
You can help in the
following ways:
1) Write Senator Robert J.
Dole, Chmn. of the
Republican National
Committee (310 First St.,
S.E., Washington, D.C.
20003). Ask for fairness and
urge him to stop this illegal
NLRB action against farm
workers.
2) Call your local
Republican Committee office
(or local Republican
candidate).
3) Contact the local UFW
Field Office or Boycott
Office and offer your help.
4) The lettuce boycott is
underway. Please avoid all
non-union iceberg (head)
lettuce. All union lettuce will
have the Aztec Eagle stamped
on the shipping carton. Ask
your produce manager to let
you see the lettuce boxes. If
in doubt about the union
label, don’t buy head lettuce.
Switch to romain, leaf or
bibb.
This is a life and death
matter for Cesar Chavez and
the farm workers with him. If
you are sympathetic at all
please help farm workers
now. How will farm workers
continue to make progress if
their non-violent methods are
destroyed?
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