Labour Day Resolution
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/official5843
- Date
- 1937 August
- Source
- General Synod. Minutes
- Type
- Resolution
- Mover
- Rev. R.K. Naylor
- Seconder
- Mr. R.W. Allin
- Text of motion
- The General Synod of the Church of England in Canada, assembled in Halifax on Labour Day calls to mind the fact that its Lord and Master was a Labourer;
- That His Life and Teaching dignify the honest labour of all men;
- That power lies in the religion of Jesus Christ, when applied, to remove social and economic injustice. It rests with all members of the Church to apply still further the principles of Christianity to the problems of labour and unemployment;
- This Synod having already called "all Christian people to a deeper sense of stewardship in relation to material as to spiritual blessing, to secure a greater degree of co-operation among all groups in the field of production, a mutual responsibility in the operation of industry, and a more equitable share in the fruits of their common labours," it only remains for the Synod to express to the Labour groups of this country its good wishes and sympathy in all legitimate efforts to secure the well-being of the workers of this land. CARRIED in both Houses.
- Subjects
- Church and industry - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church and labor - Canada
- Economic justice - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada