|
|
Article: Religion and labor.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- April 6, 1984
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1984 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
THERE IS AN unfortunate tendency in conservative circles to think ill of labor unions. This tendency will no doubt be aggravated in 1984 because the AFL-CIO under the masterful Lane Kirkland is so strenuously supporting Walter Mondale and so strongly opposed to Ronald Reagan. Yet to give in to this tendency would be a mistake.
Laboring people tend to be quite "liberal" on matters affecting the labor unions, their jobs, their paychecks, and their security. Well they should be. But they tend also to be family people, oriented toward "conservative" social and moral values, and profoundly realistic both about power politics in the world and about the deceptive ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: From Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum to John Paul II's ...
Journal of Markets & Morality;
March 22, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... citizens. In this vision--shared by both Leo XIII and Pius XI--the State should not only ... nonexistent in the encyclicals, though Leo XIII allowed for a multiplicity of political ... approving, albeit critical, stance of Leo XIII and Pius XI toward capitalism and the ...
|
|