St. Louis College Bulletin (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1, May 1922 Page: 3 of 12
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suffering it inflicts on the help-
less public, automatically make it
unjust and take away from the
laborer the right to use it as a
weapon against his employer. We
should recall, however, those me-
morable words of Cardinal O’Con-
nell found in his pastoral letter of
November 25, 1921: “The right to
strike is a natural right; it existed
prior to the state itself; it is a
right which neither the slate nor
society can annul.” Besides its
denial to our working nicn would
naturally result in involuntary ser-
vitude, which is diametrically op-
posed not only to the Thirteenth
Amendment of the Constitution
but to the principles upon which
the American Nation is founded.
The right to strike is, consequent-
ly, a natural, inalienable right of
each and every American laborer.
The Constitution respects and
protects other civil rights, but
places on them certain restrictions
which, by preventing the abuse
of such rgihts, shields, them instead
of impairing them. Every right, in
fact, whether natural or conven-
tional, should not be abused, and
the right to strike is no exception
to this fundamental principle.
What Catholic theology teaches
of any rebellion against natural
or established authority applies
likewise to the right under con-
sideration. In the first place, t.hcie
must be a just cause for striking.
I.IHII'.I) BY I HE S I'UDENTS 01? THE HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
VOL. Ill SAN ANTONIO, TEX/\s7mAY,1~922"
so unnecessarily,
accompanied by
such radical acts of violence, that
it lias put organized labor in a bad
light before the people of this
peace-loving nation. In fact, a
great number of citizens have gone
so far as to ask:
right to strike?”
Many contend that the so-called
necessary evils accompanying a
strike, as well as the temporary
Our most important social prob-
lem is, undoubtedly, the everlast-
ing strife between capital and
labor. This question influences
directly the production and the
transportation of all our modern
needs and commodities, and con-
sequently directly affects the wel-
fare of each and every one of us.
Let us rapidly look back into the
last forty years and see how this
problem has come to confront us.
In 1881, the American Fcdera-
lion of Labor was organized; its
object is to help all working men
to act collectively in their rela-
tions with their employer, and to
get a living wage. Its method was
(he strike. Gradually, however,
as organized labor grew more and
more powerful, and came to real-
ize its influence on national af-
fairs, it abused of its weapon.
The strike has been resorted to
so often and
and has been
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