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...Bishops who are aggressively outspoken friends of labor can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Outstanding are Chicago's Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bish op Bernard James Sheil, San Francisco's retired Episcopal Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, Boston's Methodist Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam...
Fortnight ago labor-loving Dr. Oxnam became Bishop of Methodism's most important area-New York...
Against Injustice. Biggest of U.S. Protestant churches, Methodism (membership : 8,000,000) has long been the most active and vocal in advocating social and economic reform. Since 1907 the Methodist Federation for Social Service has worked against all forms of social injustice. More & more Bishop Oxnam, 52, has become the voice of the Federation. He also takes a part in editing Methodism's Social Creed (updated every four years at the Church's General Conference...
...Bishop Oxnam has repeatedly cautioned Methodists against the dangers of developing "an anti-labor attitude in the minds of our soldiers and sailors, since our very future lies in the ability of management and labor to work together." He has told groups of businessmen that "business tomorrow will not be as usual," has urged them "to remove the contradiction that lies in our ability to produce and our inability to distribute in a moral or rationally adequate way [and] to remove the barriers that economic nationalism places between us and an unimpeded world market...
...Pillars") for a "just and durable peace." Now, this late in the war, churchmen had grave doubts whether such a peace was in prospect. These doubts were solemnly stated to the President last week by: the ranking Episcopal bishop, Henry St. George Tucker; a prominent Methodist, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam; and John Foster Dulles, international lawyer. After 40 minutes facing