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Both foreign and home missions are enthusiastically financed by Southern Baptist churches and heavily tithing members. Typical example: the First Baptist Church in Decatur (Ga.), operating on a $407,114 yearly budget, spends $173,557 of it to support a Jordan hospital and other mission work, though its own building loan is not yet paid. In 1959 alone, gifts to the Southern Baptist Conference ran nearly $500 million...
...long ago, the Christian Century persuasively summed up Southern Baptism thus: "There are some striking inconsistencies. Fervent for missionary work among peoples of all races, it yet has to come to terms with the racial problems in its own dooryard. Pouring millions of dollars into education, it yet has made no effort to recommend ministerial stand ards to its cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged...
...milling picket lines, the fire hoses, the club-wielding police were all reminiscent of the bloody strikes of the 1930s. When the International Union of Electrical Workers struck General Electric last week, the company vowed it would keep its plants open for all employees who wanted to work. Both sides knew the vow could lead to violence. It was not long in coming...
...effective was the strike? The union claimed that almost all of its 70,000 members (out of G.E.'s hourly work force of 110,000) were out, but the company maintained that as many as 5,000 workers, who are represented by the I.U.E., were slipping through the picket lines and reporting for work at the 44 struck plants. By the fifth day of the strike, G.E. said that including supervisory and salaried personnel, it had 33,902 employees in the nine major strikebound plants where 98,390 employees normally work. One thing was sure: not nearly enough workers...
...proposals. We are going to stand by them." Although G.E. was disturbed by the violence and was seeking injunctions to bar mass picketing, it refused to close its plants. Says Moore: "We believe a man has a right to strike, but we also believe he has a right to work. Carey has his troubles. A lot of his people aren't behind him. When they realize they've been had, they'll start coming back to work...