![]() ![]() And I think about it when I remember my coal miner friends in West Virginia.īut are union organizers and unions to be feared? Are they dangerous? I would be in good company if I argued that they were neither dangerous nor to be feared! In his groundbreaking 1891 encyclical Rerum NovarumPope Leo XIII spoke to the dehumanizing conditions in which many workers labored. I think about it when I read of unaccompanied immigrant children working long hours in factories in violation of child labor laws. And I think of it today as I read about restaurant workers, tech employees, delivery people and workers in the South forming unions. ![]() I looked at that quote often in my 20 years of ministry in West Virginia because it hung in my office. Corporate bosses who feared Mary Harris Jones called her "the most dangerous woman in America." The quote "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living" is attributed to Mother Jones, a fiery Irish woman and one of the best union organizers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. ![]()
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