There have been two collective protests by groups of clergymen that placed them in the field of Socialist and pacifist sympathizers. On July 6, 1919, five clergymen issued a protest against the repression exercised against the Reds, against arrests and deportations, and against the application of the Espionage Act. The clergymen signing this document were Rev. Arthur C. McGiffert, president of Union Theological Seminary; Rev. Howard C. Robbins, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Rev. Charles R. Brown, dean of the Yale School of Religion; Rev. Henry S. Coffin, of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church; Rev. William A. Smith, editor of "The Churchman." A more extreme attitude was taken by a meeting of Episcopal clergymen belonging to the Church Socialist League held on June 29, 1919, at the Rand School. This group issued a manifesto calling for a "complete revolution of our present economic and social disorder." It affirmed that the church "must repudiate its affiliation and support of the capitalist system of production, with its unholy emphasis on profits, privileges and exploitations." The signers of this document belonging to the clergy were: Rev. John Paul Jones, former Bishop of Utah; Rev. Joseph P. Morris, Rev. Charles H. Collett, Rev. James L. Smiley, Rev. William B. Spofford, Rev. James G. Mythen, Rev. Alfred Pridis, Rev. Irwin St. John Tucker, Rev. A. L. Byron-Curtiss, Rev. Horace Fort, Rev. Robert Johnson, Rev. Richard M. Doubs, Rev. Alfred Farr, Rev. George J. Miller, Rev. John M. Horton. Among these men, particular attention should be called to St. John Tucker, whose radicalism is well known, and A. L. ByronCurtiss, who is secretary of the Socialist League of the Episcopal Church, and is elsewhere mentioned. Two of the above clergymen, Smiley and Spofford, sent on behalf of this same conference a message to President Wilson, which expresses its absolute sympathy with the Soviet government Interchurch World Movement. Not satisfied with the investigation of the Steel Strike by the Senate's Committee (Kenyon), this new organization of the churches employed certain specialists to make a detailed inquiry, involving the cross-examination of hundreds of workmen. It is not generally known that the direction of this inquiry was not in the hands of unbiased investigators. The principal “ experts" are David J. Saposs and George Soule, whose radical viewpoints may be gathered from their association with Mr. Evans Clark, acting under the direction of Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, head of the Soviet Bureau in the United States; their connection also with the Rand School of Social Science, and certain revolutionary Labor organizations further emphasizes their unfitness to carry on an unbiased investigation. of Russia. It asks him to cease intervention in Russia and asks him to act against "any attempt of the Allies to strangle European democracy in its cradle." In other words, it charac terizes the Soviet government as the one budding system of democracy in Europe. A certain group in the Catholic Church with leanings toward Socialism, under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Ryan, professor at the Catholic University of Washington, issued in January, 1918, a pamphlet called "Social Reconstruction; a General Review of the Problems, and a Survey of Remedies." It was issued by the Committee on Special War Activities of the National Catholic Council in Washington, and was signed by four bishops: Peter J. Muldoon, Bishop of Rockford; Joseph Schrembs, Bishop of Toledo; Patrick J. Hayes, Bishop of Tagaste, William T. Russell, Bishop of Charleston. It begins by a disapproval of the famous social reconstruction program of the British Labor Party because this program, it considers, would lead ultimately to complete Socialism. It considers the program of the American Federation of Labor not to give sufficient expression to the weaker sections of the working class, and calls attention to its failure to even imply that the workers should become owners as well as users of the instruments of production. It examines other plans, such as that of the National Chamber of Commerce, and especially the proposals of the interdenominational conference of social service unions, comprising ten religious bodies of Great Britain. The committee itself outlines in a rather general way its own. proposed solution. Among other things, it favors the co-operative societies owned and managed by the consumers. It favors a large participation of labor in industrial management. Where the socialistic tendency of the committee shows itself most clearly is in what is said under the heading of "Co-operation and Copart nership." This statement is of sufficient importance to be quoted: "Nevertheless, the full possibilities of increased production will not be realized so long as the majority of the workers remain mere wage earners. The majority must somehow become owners, or at least in part, of the instruments of production. They can be enabled to reach this stage gradually through co-operative productive societies and copartnership arrangements. In the former, the workers own and manage the industries themselves; in the latter, they own a substantial part of the corporate stock and exercise a reasonable share in the management. However slow the attainment of these ends, they will have to be reached before we can have a thoroughly efficient system of production, or an industrial and social order that will be secure from the danger of revolution. It is to be noted that this particular modification of the existing order, however far-reaching and involving to a great extent the abolition of the wage system, would not mean the abolition of private ownership. The instruments of production will still be owned by individuals, not by the State." INDEX TO LEGISLATIVE DOCUMENTS, 1921 A Agricultural Experiment Station, report.. Agriculture, State College of, Cornell University, report. Appropriations, report of Budget Committee on requests for. Architect, State, annual report.... Assembly, bills, supplemental index. committees, list members, list Attorney-General, report B Doc. No. 45 45 72 11 39 92 27 53 Banks, Superintendent of, report on banks of deposit and discount.... on Savings and loan associations, Land banks, etc.. Barge canal, message from Governor regarding resolution by Congress on. Bath, New York State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, report. Bedford Hills, New York State Reformatory for Women, report. Bills, Assembly, supplemental index. Senate, supplemental index Blind, report of International Sunshine Society on. State Commission for, report.... State School for, report.... Boards, commissions and departments, see specific names for. Boundary waters, preliminary report of Commission on... Boxing Commission, report Bridge and Tunnel Commission, report.. Budget committee, report on requests for appropriations. с Canals, report of Comptroller relating to expenditures on. 5 6 24 21 34 70 92 91 86 84 21 20 79 64 11 35 59 24 St. Lawrence Ship Canal, preliminary report of Commission on.. 20 Charities, Fiscal Supervisor, report.. 87 Charities, State Board of, report.. 49 Charity Organization Society of the City of Buffalo, report. Commutations granted by Governor, statement of. Comptroller, State, report report on expenditures on the canals.. special report on municipal accounts. Conrad Poppenhusen Association, annual report. Conservation Commission, report Cornell University, State College of Agriculture, report.. Credit unions, report of Superintendent of Banks relative to.. Crippled and deformed children, New York State Hospital for, report.... 28 54 10 59 9 78 95 45 8 5 83 Engineer and Surveyor, State, report.. report on Ellicott creek Excise, Commissioner of, report..... Ellicott creek, map showing blue lines established by State Engineer.. Escheated lands, report of Commissioners of Land Office on. F Farms and Markets, Department of, report.. 16 51 60 17 44 17 36 7 45 40 87 Forest Preserve, report of Commission to investigate title to lands in.... 37 G Governor, statement of pardons, commutations and reprieves granted by.. 54 annual Barge canal, regarding resolution by Congress on.. 3 24 Liquor tax law, recommending repeal, and passage of executive en- Housing conditions, intermediate report of investigating committee.. 26 73 International Sunshine Society, report of Department for the Blind... 13 92 J Jewish Protectory and Aid Society, report..... L Labor laws, report of joint committee on revision.... 82 25 5 36 68 |