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Article: Milestones in Catholic church's role in labor movement.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- June 4, 1999
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1879: The Knights of Labor, a Catholic labor movement that peaked in the 1880s, is founded in the United States. Most members eventually joined either the American Federation of Labor or unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1891: Leo XIII issues Rerum Novarum ("On the condition of workers"), the first papal encyclical on social questions. Leo endorsed the right of laborers to organize.
1916: Fr. John A. Ryan publishes Distributive Justice, analyzing the U.S. economy from the point of view of Catholic social teaching. Ryan would become a major force for Catholic support of the labor movement.
1919: The U.S. bishops ...