The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. 139 rapidly increased. It was the declaration of war against the “ laws of May ” and the policy of Prince Bismarck. The Bishop of Mayence did not abandon his work. He urged his clergy to study unremittingly the social question. In 1871 he sent a monitorial circular to all the priests of his diocese, directing them to prepare exact statistics as to the condition of the working men of their respective parishes. In the general assembly of German Catholics which was held at Mayence, in September, 187 r, under the inspiration of Mon seigneur von Ketteler, the labour question was considered at length. The following are some of the resolutions passed on the subject :—It is necessary to determine, by means of a committee of inquiry composed of workmen and employers, the exact moral and material condition of the labouring classes, in order that the legislature may be able to enact a code of labour (Arbatsrecht). Landed property, trade, and commerce enjoy juridical protection, and yet the rights of labour are not recognized, although labourers form ninety per cent, of the population. The assembly urgently calls for the establishment of Christian Social Associations for master-workmen, factory hands, young men, women, and young girls, and it reminds the well-to-do classes that it is their bounden duty to come liberally in aid of these institutions. The assembly deplores the condition of labourers’ dwellings, which are a scandal for a Christian country, and it insists energetically that societies should be formed for the erection of healthy and cheap habitations. A proposition censuring strikes was rejected by a large majority. The foregoing account will suffice to show the spirit that animates the Catholic Socialist movement The work com menced by Monseigneur von Ketteler has made considerable progress in these last few years. The clergy have everywhere devoted themselves to it with ardour, because it affords a means of gaining adherents, in the struggles of the Kulturkampf, to the profit of the Church and against the government. Among those who march in the first rank, may be mentioned, at the head Herr Schings, a rector, and Herr Kronenberg, a vicar, at Aix-la-Chapelle; Herr Laaf, vicar at Essen; and Herr E. Klein, the Dom-capitular of Paderborn. Their efforts tended to bring

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