“Masters and wealthy owners,” Pope Leo XIII wrote in his encyclical on labor in 1891, “must be mindful of their duty.”
That duty, he wrote in “Rerum Novarum” (“On the Condition of Labor”) is not, as the current governor of Illinois seems to believe, to meekly accept whatever crumbs fall from the table of the rich and the powerful, but to form their own organizations to fight for decent wages, reasonable hours, mandated breaks, safety standards and a humane work environment.
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