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"In the Beginning of the Catholic Worker," a speech delivered in 1985 by Joseph Zarrella on his memories of life in the early years of the Catholic Worker
"You never leave the Catholic Worker "

An interview with Joe Zarrella about his time at the Catholic Worker
Ade Bethune at Catholic Worker Retreat, 1939

Image of Ade Bethune with her assistant and Father Sebastian Erbacher, presumably at a Catholic Worker retreat
Ade Bethune at Catholic Worker Retreat, 1939

Image of Ade Bethune stnading in front of a wagon at the CW retreat at the Catholic Worker farm in Easton, PA.
Ade Bethune Mural at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York

Image of a mural by Ade Bethune at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York. The mural is of a woman worker holding a broom, a male worker in overalls, and possibly Pope Pius XI holding hands.
Alice Lautner at the Catholic Worker in New York, 1939

Image of Alice Lautner Zarrella outside the Catholic Worker office
Breadline at Detroit Catholic Worker House

Image of a breadline at the Catholic Worker Detroit House
Breadline entering the Catholic Worker, ca. 1937

Image of a breadline entering the Cathlolic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York City
Breadline entering the Catholic Worker, ca. 1937

Image of men in a breadline entering the Cathlolic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York City
Breadline inside the Catholic Worker Charity House, ca. 1937

Image of a breadline inside the Catholic Worker Charity House oon Mott Street in New York City. The photo focuses on one man who is drinking from a cup. The Ade Bethune mural of St. Paul visiting St. Peter in jail is in the background
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Charity House in Milwaukee

Description on the back reads "Milwaukee CW, 1937, Oct 11 opened"
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of breadline outside the Mott street Catholic Worker Charity House in New York.
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of breadline outside the Mott street Catholic Worker Charity House in New York. The long line goes around the corner.
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

A group of men stand waiting in the breadline outside the Catholic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of men standing in the breadline outside the Catholic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of men standing in the breadline outside the Catholic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of a breadline rounding the corner of Crawford department store. The men in line are waiting for food served at the Catholic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York City
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of a breadline entering the Cathlolic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York City
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1937

Image of men standing in the breadline outside the Catholic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York
Breadline outside the Catholic Worker Office, ca. 1938

Imageof breadline outside the CW in NY. Back of photo reads " 115 Mott St NYC, 1938-39"
Catholic Worker Gathering, July 2-3, 1991

Image of Tamar Hennessy and Ade Bethune with others at the CW gathering in Boston, July 2-3, 1991
Catholic Worker membership card belonging to Joseph Zarrella

Catholic Worker membership card of Zarrella. Signed by Dorothy Day. No date
Christ as carpenter holding hands - Ade Bethune Mural at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York

Image of a mural by Ade Bethune at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York. Mural is of Jesus dressed as a carpenter holding hands of other workers.
Detroit Catholic Worker House

Image of the Catholic Worker House in Detroit
Dorothy Day at Catholic Worker Farm, 1939

Image at the CW retreat at the Catholic Worker farm Easton, PA. The back label of the photo identifies: Tamar, Dorothy, Bill Callahan, and Arthur Durrenberger, Jr.
Dorothy Day at Catholic Worker Farm, 1939

Image of a group gathered, including Dorothy Day, outside of a building at the CW retreat at the Catholic Worker farm in Easton, PA. The back of the photo is labeled "Fr. Joachim Benson and Dorothy Day."
Dorothy Day at Catholic Worker Farm, 1939

Image of Dorothy Day at the Catholic Worker farm in Easton, PA. She is standing in a field with an unknown woman.
Dorothy Day at Catholic Worker Retreat

Image of Dorothy Day and Tamar with a goat at a CW retreat at a the Catholic Worker farm in Easton, PA.
Dorothy Day at the Detroit Catholic Worker, ca. 1936

Image of Dorothy Day at the Detroit Catholic Worker with an unidentified priest
Dorothy Day at the Detroit Catholic Worker, ca. 1936

Image of Dorothy Day leaning on a car with two unidentified people at the Detroit Catholic Worker
Dorothy Day with Catherine Mella at Catholic Worker Retreat, 1939

Image of Dorothy Day with Catherine Mella at the CW retreat at the Catholic Worker farm in Easton, PA.
Inside the Catholic Worker Charity House, Mott Street, New York City

Image of wall inside the Catholic Worker Charity House, including a quote from St. Thomas Aquinas
Joe Zarrella at the Catholic Worker Office, 1939

Image of Joe Zarrella at a typewriter at the Catholic Worker office on Mott Street in New York City
Joe Zarrella handing out Catholic Worker Newspapers at Union Square, 1983

Image of Joe Zarrella handing out Catholic Worker newspapers during the 50th anniversary of the paper at Union Square, NY in 1983
Joe Zarrella handing out Catholic Worker Newspapers at Union Square, 1983

Image of Joe Zarrella handing out Catholic Worker newspapers during the 50th anniversary of the paper at Union Square, NY in 1983
Joe Zarrella handing out Catholic Worker Newspapers at Union Square, 1983

Image of Joe Zarrella handing out Catholic Worker newspapers during the 50th anniversary of the paper at Union Square, NY in 1983
Julia Purcelli at the Catholic Worker office, no date

Image of Julia Purcelli (Day's secretary) in the office at CW.
Men outside the Catholic Worker Charity House on Mott Street in New York City

Image of two men outside the Catholic Worker office in NYC. Description on back reads "Duncan Chisholm, 1940"
Murals of St. Joseph, Jesus Christ, and the Bl. Virgin Mary by Ade Bethune at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York, no date

Image of a mural by Ade Bethune at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality. Mural is of St. Joseph and Jesus Christ working with carpentry tools next to the Blessed Virgin Mary sewing or mending a garment.
Peter Maurin and Ade Bethune at the Catholic Worker Farm, 1939

Image of Peter Maurin at the CW retreat at a farm in Easton, PA. He is in the center of a group of people. The back of photo labels some people in the group: "Eddie Pirent (sp?), Julia Porcelli, Ade Bethune, Jack Thorton, Hazen Ordway, Frank O'Donnell, John Curran (in chair), Peter Maurin, Marty Paul."
Peter Maurin at the Catholic Worker Retreat in Easton, PA, 1939

Image of Peter Maurin with people sitting in a circle around him at the Catholic Worker retreat at a farm in Easton, PA. The back of photo is labeled as "Retreat #1, Easton, Maryfarm, 1939. Ade Bethune"
Pile of bread used for breadlines at a Catholic Worker house in New York, ca. 1937

Image of a pile of bread used to feed the needy in the breadlines at the Catholic Worker house on Mott Street in New York City. A partial view of an Ade Bethune mural is in the background.
Question and answer session (edited) following "In the Beginning of the Catholic Worker," a speech delivered in 1985 by Joseph Zarrella. Most questions answered by Joe Zarrella, but there is also audio answers from Gerry Griffin and Mary Alice Zarrella.

Some audio removed which was difficult to hear. Unedited version appears in the Merton Center Collection.
Saint Francis of Assisi Mural by Ade Bethune at the Catholic Worker, New York, no date

Image of an Ade Bethune mural of St. Francis of Assisi at a Catholic Worker House of Hospitality in New York.
Serving food at the Catholic Worker in New York

Photo at the Catholic Worker in New York where meals were served to those in need. Description on back reads "Tex, Jim Brazil - window."
Tamar (daughter of Dorothy Day) at Catholic Worker Retreat, 1938

Image of Tamar with a cow at a CW retreat at a farm in Easton, PA.
Tamar (Dorothy Day's daughter) and boy making sandcastle at Catholic Worker Farm in Easton, PA

Image of Tamar (Dorothy Day's daughter) and unknown boy at the Catholic Worker farm in Easton, PA making a sandcastle
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 01 (undated [May 1933])

CONTENTS: The Listener [by Dorothy Day] Negro Labor on Levees Exploited by U.S. War Dept. Less Child Labor Due to Present Low Wage Scale Easy Essays by Peter Maurin [printed as “Peter Maurain”] Attention Police! Do Something! Join Catholic League for Social Justice, Now! “Disregarded by War Department!” Communists, Despite Noise, Are Not Only Defenders of Scottsboro Case Is the Problem Black or White? Drab Futility in Workers’ Letters To Our Readers by Dorothy Day Book Notes For Gentle Sabotage, Style and Economy, Dine by Candle Light Courageous! “Just a word of praise for Mayor O’Brien.” Neighbors: Moving day in a poor family. Mary Is Fifteen: Children to take care of, meals to prepare… A Thought for the Day by Father Gillis, C.S.P. A Note of Cheer in Denver Mine Report
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 03 (July-August 1933)

CONTENTS: The Listener Textile Code Hearing Reveals Extensive Child Labor in U.S. Government Controlled Industry Dangerous Warns Al Smith Easy Essays by Peter Maurin What You Can Do For Social Justice Courageous Attention! Priests of Reading, Pa. Train Clergy for Social Justice, Dr. Haas Urges Wall Street Listens to Scholastic Thought First Negro Called For Southern Jury Comes the Revolution! July 4th News—Independence Day The Fulsome Press K. of C. Distribute Catholic Worker at Manresa Retreat To Our Readers Progress Kitchen Sweatshops White Collar Class Industrial Recovery Act What Union? The Labor Guild Radical but Not Communist Catholic Miners Say Rights of Labor Come Before Profits Woodlock Recognizes Economic Revolution The Pope’s Solution by Michael Gunn Round Table Meeting Discusses Plans for New Social Order Exploitation of Worker Denounced By Bishops Diary of the Month Letters From Our Readers Wages in Clothing Industry Low Meeting
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 04 (September 1933)

CONTENTS: The Listener Pennsylvania Miners End Bitter Strike—Await Coal Code N.Y. Milk Strikers Ask for Greater Share of Profits Easy Essays by Peter Maurin What You Can Do For Social Justice Neighborhood Council in Action The Catholic League For Social Justice by Michael O’Shaughnessy Radio Talk Outlines Church Farm Plan Workers Barred From Hall Event of the Month Help! News from Manresa Conversation with a Garage Man “Catholic News” Article Tells of Council’s Work The Pope’s Solution by Michael Gunn Conversation on a Street Car Catholics Gather Large Wall Street Audience Book Review Exploitation By The Land Monopoly The Holy Year On The Love of God NRA Strikes and Violence Two Separate Things Twelve Pages The Shame of Alabama No Continuing City: Chapter One of an Unfinished Novel IV (Continued) by Dorothy Day Communists Seek Entry To Negro Churches Grade School Economics by Edward Dunn, C.C.N.Y. Timber and Cannon Fodder by Katherine Burton One Man’s Work N.A.A.C.P. Wins Fight On Negro Exploitation by Levee Contractors The Labor Guild by Michael P. Gunn Humor Enters the Coal Strike Letters and Comment Under the Crusader Flag Many Code Violations Reported From South Communists Oppose Round Table Sponsor Not Only Tammany! Meeting
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 05 (October 1933)

CONTENTS: Are Newman clubs Enough? To the Bishops of the U.S.: A Plea for Houses of Hospitality by Peter Maruin Undercover Communists Organize Farmers The Spirit of the Mass The Spirit for the Masses by Peter Maruin Catholic Worker Delegates to Attend Peace Conference The Labor Guild by Michael P. Gunn Going the N.R.A. One Better? Minister Run Our of Ala. For Supporting NRA code for Race The Silk Strike—What Union? Workers’ Duty to Join Unions Says Father Haas The Young The Communist Press Negro Fellow-Workers All In A Day Prelate and Clergy Ask Justice For Negroes Is Picketing A Crime? The NRA and Profits by Henry J. Foley Negro Catholics Organize in Capitol Southern Workers Go “Slow Independent Way” Manufacturers Say Letters from Our Readers Catholic Action School Discusses Social Justice by Joseph Barnes Bennett Notice
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 06 (November 1933)

CONTENTS: Nation-Wide Strikes Advance As Workers Fight for Justice Against Capital’s Ruthless War Lynching is Scored at Big Meeting Of the Laymen’s Union Call For Catholic Houses for Needy Women and Girls NRA Attacked on All Sides; Trade Groups Threaten Act C. of C. Seeing its Control Violence Imminent in 21-State Strike; Farm’s Doom Seen Wall Street Pays—And Pays, and Pays NRA Exempts Small Merchant—Will They Prosecute the Big? The Labor Guild by Michael Gunn Families of Five are Given $3.85 A Month Relief Something to Mull Over; $135,000,000 Grant to R.R. Piggy Wiggin Picks a Peck of People’s Pockets Nation-Wide Protests Rouse Marlyanders Against Lynchings Pacifist “Martyr” May Be Reinstated Bosses Spies Work For NRA Sabotage N.A.A.C.P. Protests Negro Exemption From Cotton Code Groups Fight Edict On Mixed Meetings Fr. L. Geary Pleads for Nomadic Youth Russia Entertains American Seamen by James McGovern Sermons on Social Justice Heard By Many Catholics by Joseph Barnes Bennett Thanksgiving And Now a Note of Melancholy Letters and Comment From The “Commonweal” Catholic Labor Papers Must Evictions Continue? Sign Pledge In Opposition No Continuing City V by Dorothy Day The Forgotten People… by Anscar hammon Christ in His Poor by Father Elliot Ross Denver Bishop Scores Un-American, Immoral Persecution of Jews Catholics are Red, Young Communist Shouts in Debate Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Poor Democracy Ceases To Be A Matte—Berdyaev House of Hospitality Communistic Ideals Hold Some Truth, Says Fr. McGowan NRA in South Gives Whites Preference Priest Points Way to Organized Economic Life; Bases Theories on Pope’s Encyclicals Soap Union Shows Up P. & G. ‘Profit-Shares’ As Exploiter’s Dodge Economics vs. Ethics is Battle for Justice and the Good Life by George M. Boyle Fr. McGowan Compares Encyclicals and NRA. Says NRA May Be Approach to Just Order Fr. Curran Supports Opposition Penn. Coal Miners in New Strike
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 07 (December 1933)

CONTENTS: Co-Operative Apartment for Unemployed Women Has Its Start in Parish To National Recovery Act Administration Officials—Is Inflation Inevitable? Scottsboro Boys Are Children of Mary The Professional Musician by Edward S. Schein Books Commentary Column Letter to Charites Head Technique of Agitation Prayer of the Working Man 3,431,268 Meals Served By Priest in Two Years Co-Operatives as Instruments of Social Justice by George M. Boyle The Third Lesson from the Matins of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Hotel Industry Code U.S. Sells Industrial Power at 45% Saving NRA Letters and Comment The Catholic Sea Workers’ Movement by A. Gannon The Christmas Season Catholic Worker Program Progress Some Real Catholic Action by Michael Gunn Women: Start a Campaign in Your Organization to Open Shelters Worker Tells of Sweat Shop Housing Economics—Natural and Supernatural by Rev. J. D. Loeffler, S.J. Catholic Worker Plans for the Coming Year Senator Wagner to Keep Watchful Eye on Levee Jobs Interview With Moley Told By Peter Maurin Under the Crusader Flag Catholicism and Capitalism Harry T. Bagley A Priest Speaks Slowly Opening Up Boulder Dam Employment to Negro 14-Cent Wage in Laundry Code Will Be Opposed Message for the New Year The Wisconsin Farmer by Father Urban Baer Worker Praises St. Vincent De Paul by Joseph Barnes Bennett
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 08 (February 1934)

CONTENTS: Hayes of Columbia Gives Opening Night Lecture of Catholic Workers’ School A National Hospice on our Doorstep Swanky Haven Child Labor Bill Ignored As Country Speeds Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment Feed The Mule—Starve the Man Specimens of Communist Propaganda Labor Education by Rev. Francis J. Haas, Ph.D. Communism and the NRA God on Broadway A Telling Case for Catholic Action The Catholic Worker and His Books Commentary Column The Festival of the Holy Family Lay Apostles Child Victims Building Churches by Peter Maurin Another Miracle, Please, St. Joseph! Letters and Comment Catholic Workers’ School Program 436 East 15th Street, N.Y.C. Amici Italiani! Christ, The Worker The Teresa-Joseph Cooperative Music by Edward Schein The Labor Guild by Michael Gunn Dire Plight of Negro Under NRA Stressed in Radio Forum Talks Young Pioneers Colored Women Appointed Factory Inspector What, No Flit? Little Justice Found for Houseworkers An Open House Scottsboro Three Negro Priests Whither the NRA? By Walter O’Hagan Liturgy Cooperative Commonwealth Federation A Question and an Answer on Catholic Guilds Return to Christian Charity Only Remedy for Depression Far North
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 09 (March 1934)

CONTENTS: “Easy Essay” by Peter Maurin The Catholic Workers’ School Msgr. Ryan Is CWA Group Going “Red?” Real Racial Despair Confronts Negro Anti-Lynch Bill Up Before Senate Aquinas and the Common Good Adoration of the Cross Music by Edward Schein “Human Dignity” “Lord, That I Might See!” Lots of Jobs 72 Colored Converts Received Into Church The Catholic Workers’ Case for Child Labor Amendment Mrgr. Ryan of Catholic University Reiterates Nine Year Stand on Child Labor Amendment C.D.A. Endorses Bill Pope Leo a Red? Presidents of St. Viator’s Approves Ammendment A Brief History of the Proposed Bill to Enable Congress to Act on child Labor Must We Return to This? -For Their Protection Thank You, St. Joseph! Letters and Comment by J.C. McGovern Catholic Workers’ School Program 436 East 15th Street, N.Y.C. The Teresa-Joseph Co-Operative Day by Day Quotations For What Does The NRA Stand? Adaptation of Guild System for America Is Urged by Speaker Catholicism and Conservatism by Francis L. Burke Brutal Levee Camp Boss Fired by War Department Here and There in the Catholic Press by Joseph Barnes Bennett Pangue Lingua Another Wage Cut For Railroad Employees The Last Hours Canada Looks to C.C.F. to Remedy Dominion’s Economic Problems by John Erit Culture Disintegrates Without Religion-Dawson CWA Michael Gunn’s Answer to Maurin on Catholic Labor Guilds Save Stamps Our Children’s corner The King’s Own Men
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 01, No. 10 (April 1934)

CONTENTS: Need of Good Press Stated By Holy Father, Pius XI, In Letter Last Month Call for Catholic Centers of Action In Large Cities Easy Essays by Peter Maurin “Collective Bargaining” Still Bone of Contention with Labor and Capital Capitalist Violence In Ambridge Strike Scored at Hearing The Communist Says: “Welcome, Negro Brother!” The Labor Guild by Michael Gunn Avarice To Busy Mothers Back to the Soil Spreading the Paper Dr. Haas Indorses Wagner Labor Bill at Senate Hearing Days With an End Determined Strike! Books to Read Rivals by Margaret E. Jordan April—The Month of the Holy Spirit Is It Spring? Progress The Teresa-Joseph Cooperative Letters and Comment Catholic Workers’ School Program 436 East 15th Street, N.Y.C. Here and There in the Catholic Press by Joseph Barnes Bennett Catholics are Named on Welfare Boards Is War Justifiable? War Preparations Cause Questioning Parish Propaganda Coast Priest Is Named Dress Code Authority Adjustment Chairman Books Selfishness Music Notes Shows Child Labor Amendment Guards Catholic Rights Salaries Vs. Wages “Corporations Have No Soul” by Michael O’Shaughnessy The Negro Problem Chiselling Condemned by Fr. Wynhoven Rabbit-Warren Fire-Traps Burn Bodies and Kill Souls Labor Says Capital Controls Codes Dividends Rise Msgr. Conroy Chosen Labor Dispute Arbiter
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 01 (May 1934)

CONTENTS: Catholic Church Stands Alone today As Always—the True ‘International’ Demonstrations by Communist Party in Anti-War Fight The Wisdom of Dostoievsky by Peter Maurin From 2,500 to 35,000 Copies Marks First Anniversary of the Catholic Worker Bishops Reaffirm Right of Workers To Form Unions The Bishops’ Message Scottsboro Again League of Nations Stresses Need of Safeguarding Family Abandons Forced Labor Negro Role in Church, State Progress Brought Out at Workers’ School How the Communists Work Here and There in the Catholic Press by Joseph Barnes Bennett ‘Protection of Motherhood and Childhood’ in Russia Machines and Products Belong to the Workers Of Nation, Says Gill Apostolatus Maris May-Day by Margaret E. Jordan Thank You! Letters and Comment Definitions by Hilaire Belloc Not by Peter Maurin, but Like Him The Catholic Worker and the Negro The Month of May Edison Company Kind To Goats—at Least Catholic Workers’ School Program 456 Easy 15th Street, N.Y.C. Labor Guild: From Slavery to Uncertainty by Michael Gunn Catholic Lawyer’s Aid Saves Worker form Unjust Accusation City Paid by Julia Ruth Dow The Sequence Pentecost Sunday A Worker Makes Some Suggestions for School Toolmakers and Tools go on Strike Together Books to Read B’klyn K. of C. Conducts School Philosophy Municipal Lodging House No “House of Hospitality” Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Mimeograph Machines Urged by P. Maurin for Every Parish U.S. Steel Stronger Than U.S. Government Labor Disputes on Increase Everywhere Social Justice Outline For Use in Study Clubs Pope Pius XI Condemns Exaggerated Nationalism Danger of Grave Violence In Fruit Growing Regions Our Children’s Corner Mary’s Month Despite Code Abuses Workers Continue to Strike for Rights
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 02 (June 1934)

CONTENTS: Through Good Samaritan the Catholic Worker Opens Harlem Office on 7th Ave. Attorney Gives Use of Vacant Store for Work with Negroes Chatholic Clergy’s Aid is Sought by Labor and Welfare Groups For Catholic Action Federal Judge Upholds Weirton Steen Against Government and Labor 300,000 Textile Workers to Go on Strike Early in June Company Agianst Any by Company Union for Its Employees Why Write About Strife and Violence? Vacation Period Religion Schools a Growing Need by Richard O. Weller N.Y. State Minimum Wage Set at 31 Cents For Laundry Workers Men and Machinery by Eric Gill Interrace Meeting Challenges Catholics To Face Problem as True Christians Clergy and Laity Make Demand for Clean Movies From The Sequence for Corpus Christi Refusal of Rights Under Codes Cause Strikes To Spread Over Country House of Hospitality Bridge and Dance A Great Success Catholic Youth Must Rebel Against Money and Credit System Steel Baron Schwab Shares ‘Surplus’ With Vets Social Order Proposed To Reconcile Workers and Employers To St. Peter Letters and Comment Munitions Makers are Held Bulwark Against Peace Labor Guild: New Site for Labor Guild—Poverty and Progress by Michael Gunn Municipal Lodging House No “House of Hospitality” by Herman Hergenhan Unemployed Girls Get Free Domestic Training Catholic Movie Library Ready in September Capitalism Makes War Out of Economic Life Is Political Action An Answer? By John Cummings and Peter Maurin State Minimum Wage For Hotel Workers Sought by W.T. U. L. City Paid by Julia Ruth Dow Day by Day Here and There in the Catholic Press by Joseph Barnes Bennett Overcrowded Harlem Hospital Disgraces City of New York Our Children’s Corner Why Not a Miguel Pro Club? Missioner, Catechist Almost Lose Lives in Attack by Elephant Books A Critique of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation by Alfred Greene Church is Anti-Marxist, But Not Anti-Revolutionist One Cent Value on Cat Named “Thirty Cents”
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 03 (July-August 1934)

CONTENTS: Archbishop Hanna Named As Industrial Arbitrator In San Francisco Strike But Labor Dispute Board Is Ignored While Police, State Troopers and Strikers Battle Interracial Official Declares New Deal Has Not Aided Negro Workers What to Do? National Milk Survey Finds School Children Without Needed Milk Communist Action In Schools Challenge to Catholics, Declares Peter Maurin Denominations Unite In Asking Labor Peace In San Joaquin Vally 4,800 Meals are Given by Catholic Group to Needy Women in 1933 “We Have Sinned Exceedingly—“ Priest Averts Near Riot at Meeting of Steel Workers Letters of Praise, Question and Criticism The Youth Movement The Preface—The Most Holy Trinity A Critique of C.C.F. by Alfred Greene “Make Haste to Help Us!” Ask and You Will Receive, Is Christ’s Promise Day After Day Spanish Communist Leader Is Converted Farmers and Workers Start Public Market
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 04 (September 1934)

CONTENTS: A Message To The Catholic Action Summer School Gift From A Friend Gift From The Enemy Justice for Negro, Is Catholic Duty, Urges Priest War Is A Racket, Conscript Capital, Says Gen. Butler Onion Workers On Strike Jailed and Show Down In Ohio The Mayor Objects Politics of Industrialism by Eric Gill Labor Guild – Catholic Action Not Bolshevik Action Co-Operatives Success, Farmers Say A Polish Patriot Championed Negro Bishop Pleads for Underpaid Workers San Francisco Strike Not Communist, Says Pittsburgh Catholic Article Pecan Shellers Under Murderous Conditions, Says Texan Woman Day After Day A Disciple of Peter Maurin Speaks Radicals Created, Not Born, Says Coughlin In Thanksgiving for His Benefits Application Prayers from the Morning Office of Prime A Negro Protestant Looks at Catholicism by Elmer Anderson Carter Militarism Pays A Lament for Today Letters and Comment The Catholic Worker Leaflets – An Attempt to Spread the Churche’s Doctrine Books Negro Education Investigators Question Benefits of New Deal Department of Welfare Describes Its Program One Worker’s Story by Jane Marra Sweat Labor in Sugar Beet Fields Catholics and Socialism Politics of Industrialism by Eric Gill A Message from Francis Thompson to the Franciscans A Third Open Letter to Father Lord, M.Ag (Master Agitator) NRA Fails to Hel Sweated Lace Makers, Says Labor Board
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 05 (October 1934)

CONTENTS: Christ The King Alone Can Reconstruct The World Harlem Program Capital Sticks to Violent Tactics In Textile Strike The Catholic Daily Gas Bombs for Workers Are Better Than Bullets, Says John W. Young Father Toomey Speaks for Homeless, Wandering Boys Catholic Girl Tells Of Work for Porto Rican Children Easy Essays by Peter Maurin The Preface from the Mass of Christ the King Labor Guild – Monsignor Opens Guild Forum by Michael Gunn Priest’s Formerly Modest Mission Now an Institution Aiding Thousands of Needy On Usury Catholics Vs. Catholicism The Mystical Body of Christ Negro Paper Comments Books to Read Paper Bags Catholic Youth Letters and Comment Fighting Communism Picketing Houses of Hospitality Real Need Today Girls in Teresa-Joseph co-op Tell Stories of Hardships Day after Day Apartment in Immaculate Conception Parish Shelters Many in Last 10 Months We Found A Laugh A Suggestion for American Catholic Youth Groups The Last Word in Meanness Catholic Action Aided At College by Mans of ‘Drama Workshop’ Soviet Russia Campaign Against Communism Launched Lynchings and Legislation Catholics and Socialism Books and Pamplets Here is a Good Story of a Good Meal On Starting To School – A Monologue by Teresa Financial Report for 18 Months Sent Out by Catholic Worker
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 06 (November 1934)

CONTENTS: Capital’s Last Stand Shown by Lockout Tactic A Message to Our Readers Sheriffs Protect Property Not Life In United States Friendship House In New Catholic Front in Toronto German Priest Tells of Seamen’s Work in Europe Longshoremen Held On Fake Murder Charges Negro Group Pickets A.F. of L. for Jim Crow Labor Polices The Forgotten Man—Carl Schmitt by D. Powell Spirit of True Christian Brotherhood Shown in Don Bosco Institutes Labor Guild Positions Workers Give Labor To Church Project Necessities of Life Must Be as Free As Water to All Human Rehabilitation by Peter Maurin Convert’s Story of Exploitation In Housework Job Beet Sugar Contract Shows Child Labor Is Controllable Fascism of Communism Nearer Than in 1933, Says Priest-Educator Divining the Workers Preface for Masses of the Dead Not Pacifism Memoirs of a Newsboy The Dignity of Labor Letters and Comment Day After Day Harlem Kids Learn Liturgy and Drawing Mexican Woman Teacher Tells of Brave Struggle and Personal Sacrifice Seminarian Reports on communists’ Zeal Religious Educator Leaves to Control Investor’s League U.S. Priest is Named A Member of Select International Group Chicago Mayor Promises To Uphold Constitution In Jim Crow School Fight Negro Street Plays in U.S. Bring Church to Pagans City Unemployment Sends Many Back to Farms Justice for Workers, Not Birth-Control Book Reviews
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 07 (December 1934)

CONTENTS: Poverty in South Leads to Negro Lynching Orgy Bishop O’Hara Calls And Talks Rural Life Movement Activities Benedictine Remakes Mining Town Into a Prosperous Community Catholics to Show Solidarity Against Mexican Atheism Easy Essays by Peter Maurin The Forgotten Man-Carl Schmitt (Continued) by D. Powll On Lawyers Church Maritime In Buenos Aires Eucharist Congress Labor Guild “Government Not Fair In Labor Disputes; Attitude Contradictory” Free Mooney! Letters Christmas Revolution Picketing Letters and Comment The Great Antiphons Catholic Worker Readers - Catholics and Socialists Martyrs’’ Crowns for Child and Three Men Philosophies Opposed; church and Socialism Can’t Work Together Bishop Urges Emulation of Communist Action Socialists Compromise On a United Front Canadian Socialists Elect First Mayor of the Larger Cities What is Liturgy? By Rev. Dom Albert Hammenstede Gov’t Pays Farmers To Grow Less Food While Poor Starve From Fr. Gemellis’ “Franciscan Message”: Culled by P. Maurin Short Short Sermon by Joseph J. Forbes Home Workers Get Less Than Living Negro Workers Turn Down ‘Catspaw’ Offer 150 Toledo Jobless Try New Technique Deliverymen, Building Workers Join Clerks’ Strik U.S. War Preparations Fallacy of an Armed Peace Eugenics Priest Outlines Adult Education Plan to Meeting Jacques Maritain in the Colosseum Homeless Boys On the Picket Line Sunnyside, L.L., Runs Co-op for Consumers’ Service Married Women Job Ban sought by Mine Workers Prof. Jacques Maritain Writes Characteristically to Peter Maurin Our Lady of Guadeloupe (For Mexico) Book Reviews Anti-Lynching Bill Is Up to Roosevelt Impetus Given to Rural Life Program Propaganda Note
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 08 (January 1935)

CONTENTS: Pin on the Bolshevik Idea Say Panicky Utilities as Gov’t Ownership Looms “Our Country,” Say Du Pont Boys In Senate Hearing Race Mixture Forced On Negro By White Masters in Slave System, Says Fr. Lord by John LaFarge, S.J. Slight Gains on Industrial Front In 1934 Analysis A Program for Immediate Needs by Peter Maurin Manufacturer’s Resolutions Show Open Defiance of Human Rights Philosophy of Society Discussed At American Catholic Phil. Meeting Labor Guild Catholics Murdered After Mass by Red Shirt Atheists Day By Day Wage Slavery Grows On American Farms Relief and Birth Control “An Old Fellow” by Dostoievsky Redistribution (From the Gospel of St. Luke) Mid-Winter Letters and Comment The Canticle Antiphons Feast of the Epiphany A Tall Order On the Use of “Pure” Means by Jacques Maritain Suffering for Old People Seen in Hopkins Order Criticizing the Clergy “Cheap and Contented Labor Here,” Says C. of C. Just Enough Food for Life, Says “Welfare” Man Montreal Seamen’s Retreats Successful Workers and Scholars Unite A Philosophy of Revolt 29 States have Old-Age Pensions 70 Hours’ Toil for $1.50 Imposed on Orphan Boys Discriminations, Evictions Rampant in Textile Towns Capitalism Is Not Even Step-Child of the Roman Catholic Church by Father Gillis Convert from Judaism F.E.R.A. Defends Surrender To Slave Scale Wages Book Reviews Defense of Illinois Sedition Prosecutions Supported Speaking of college Newspapers Our Children’s Corner Christmas Party!
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 09 (February 1935)

CONTENTS: Bootleg Coal Miners Have As Much Right At Companies, Say Pennsylvania Priests Higher Wages For Textile workers Is False Propaganda Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Religious War in Mexico Distracts Attention From Labor and Farm Troubles Ohrback and Klein Violate NRA Codes and Jail Pickets February 22 The Chair of St. Peter at Antioch Labor Guild: The Labor Guild—Harmony, Not Conflict Definitions Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Like Educational Books Rush for Subsistence Homesteads in Texas Christ Our Lord Catholic Class-Consciousness Maternity Guilds in St. Louis Point Way for New York Day After Day Racial Justice—Archbishop Ireland Remedied The Child Apostolate Letters and Comments Feast of the Purification The Folly of the Cross from St. Paul’s Letter to Corinth A Question by Richard Bosch Town and Rural Study Clubs Must Co-Operate Organization—7A Catholic Worker Speaks To New Library Union on United Labor Front Sailors of Cattaro Parade of Prejudice Honored Sea Apostolate Feeds Seamen In Coast Strike Fordham at the Front What Is Your Income Our Neighbor Lectures A Long Editorial—But It Could Be Longer Notes on the Catholic Press Diocesan Distribution of Catholic Worker Planned by Bishop Steam Shovel in Harlem Art Swift Had a Word for Them by Donald Powell The Irish Te Deum Book Reviews Banks Without Interest Possible in Every Port Human Rights
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 10 (March 1935)

CONTENTS: Gigantic Persecution of Share Croppers in South By Organized Exploiters NBC Hires Thugs to Fight Pickets; Police Stand By March 19 – Feast of St. Joseph “Nationalism Will Sound Doom of All Liberty” Ohrback’s Injunction Is Smashed by Technique of Open Mass Violation We Remind The Daily Worker—There Is a Religious Persecution in Russia We Can’t Afford a Baby by Donald Powell Feast of St. Benedict Paint Whiskers on Strikers to Sell Teargas Easy Essays by Peter Maruin T.B. and Povery Co-Operative NRA Board Exposes Injustice in Auto Industry; Industrial Efficiency and Technical Progress in Sharp Contrast to the Human Relations Policy by F. L. Burke Day After Day U.S. Steel Uses Red Scare and Yellow Press Christ and the Patriot by Paul Hanly Furfey Wanted St. John of God Hartford Young People Push Truce of God On the Use of “Pure Means” by Jacques Maritain NRA Priest Says $2,500 A Year Is Fair Family Wage The Mystical Body of Christ Anti-Lynch Law Is Effective Threat Religious Drama Crime to Think in Arkansas Farming Commune – Farm? Camp? School? Go to Mexico! Farming Commune in Ontario is Model For Parish Priests The Catholic Sisterhoods Love by Charles Rick What A Union! Christ in His Poor – Stations of the Cross by Rev. J. Elliot Ross, C.S.P. For the Child Labor Amendment No Freedom in Wage Contract Till Workers Organize Inconsistency More Inconsistency Railroad Refuses Union Recognition by A. Union Member Jesuit Organizes Unemployed in Col. Catholic Women and the Homeless by Mary Sheehan Porto Rican Work Expands Root Nationalism Out to Assure Genuine Peace Organizer Notes on the Catholic Press We Make Dresses in Harlem! Book Reviews Christ The Gospel for First Monday in Lent March—Month of Saint Joseph Be It Done Unto Me According To Thy Word! Letters and Comment War Gases
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 02, No. 11 (April 1935)

CONTENTS: A Letter to John Strachey and His Readers by Peter Maurin Order Pamphlet! Prepare for May Day National Biscuit Sweats Workers to Swell Dividends Catholic Worker Has Entire House On Charles Street C.W. Sympathizers Protect Quarters In Harlem Riot by H. Hergenhan Labor Guild Vultures of Peace 25,000 Handbills Are Distributed by Catholic Workers Sea Apostolate Work Increasing in United States 400 Ports Unprovided With Apostolatus Services The Interracial Review by Father Coughlin English Catholic Transport Guilds Prepare For May Day Day After Day “Justifiable” War by William M. Callalhan Farming Commune by L.G.D. Usury Christ’s Humanity The Passion in the Garden Meditation on the Love of God The Preface for Easter Sunday Objections – Recall the Early Christians Father Lord’s Objections Mexican Protest Class War Attitude Held by C.W. Correspondent Opposed Letters and Comment Don Bosco and the Social Question Holy Thursday Arkansas Sharecroppers Tell of Misery Back Home Germany Well Organized For Catholic Sea Action Regional Board Charges Grocery Chain Violation Back to Earth by Donald Powell Good Friday Comment from a Priest Letter from Nome by Arthur Hansin Eide Holy Saturday Our Harlem Branch Big Sisters Uphold Housemaid’s Code Against Exploiters For Mexico by Francis Thompson
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 01 (May 1935)

CONTENTS: Nabisco Strike Enters Fifteenth Orderly Week With Victory Close Ahead Beg Food Relief For Starving and Homeless Families Rise From 2,500 to 110,000 Marks Two Years’ Growth of the Catholic Worker Needs of Families, Plight of Mothers Told in Letter Feed the Poor—Starve the Bankers by Peter Maurin Labor Guild An Appeal Notes of the Month Labor Issues Disrupt Corporation Meeting Millions of Children Deprived of Schooling Like Old Times The Little Men Day By Day Utilities Write-Up Scandal Exposed In Federal Hearing Capitalism, Fascism and Communism by Donald Powell Farming Commune Maritime Youth The Epistle Fifth Sunday After Easter Worldliness by Karl Adam Report on Progress The Introit—Feast of the Ascension Letters and Comment Rich Paupers and Poor Paupers by M. J. Kelly, C.S.B. The Solemnity of Saint Joseph God Maximum—Minimum Money, Interest and Usury Please Help What We Need Labor’s Legal Status Please Read This! Chicago! Detroit! St. Louis! Rochester! Notes on the Catholic Press To Serve the Poor by Mother M. Alphonsa Book Reviews Fashion Note Our Children’s Corner Harlem Work Our Lady Help of Christians Spotted Christ Is Love
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 02 (June 1935)

CONTENTS: Thank you – Our Bills Are Paid St. Louis Priest Gives Example of Real Hospitality Court Protects Rail Property Capital and Marxists Applaud As Supreme Court Kills New Deal; Strikes and Violence Imminent Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Commemoration of the Birth of Saint John the Baptist, June 24 Catholic Women’s Union Meets to Form New York Maternity Aid Guilds Why Do We Need Maternity Guilds? Church’s Teachings On Trade Unions Explained by Popes Collective Bargaining Sell the Paper Here’s a Story Letters and Comment The Great American Sissy by Donald Powell Wealth The Humanity of Christ Class War Black and White by Stanley Vishnewsky Child Labor Amendment Not Defeated by Catholics by F. L. Burke To The Land! The Love of God by Charles Rich Volunteers Needed Day After Day Farming Commune by H. Hergenhan Things to Be Loved by Sister M. Madeleva Labor Guild Sapience by Gertrude Goebee The Utilities Again Relief – Thomas Barry On The Square The Catholic Social Movement Is Anti-Bourgeois Book Reviews Against Enjunction Further Memoirs of a Newsboy Our Children’s Corner Jesus Was a Little Child Just Like Me Uphold Property Rights of Banks Chicago Letter by Arthur G. Falls M.D. Campion Propaganda Committee The Introit For Pentecost
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 03 (July-August 1935)

CONTENTS: Labor Disputes All Over U.S. The World Prepares for War! Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Catholics! Defend Victims of Class and Race Warfare The Kids Need Milk Catholic Worker Starts a Parish Maternity Guild Catholics and Reds Protest Eviction Of Negro Tenant Campion Propaganda Committee Longshormen Read Church’s Teachings On Organization Day After Day Margaret Turns Reporter Rosary College Will Welcome Negro Students by Arthur G. Falls, M.D. Harlem Maternity Center Run Single-Handed By Catholic Doctor Interracial Work by St. Louis Catholics by Rev. Albert Muentsch. S.J. Security Letters and Comment “We Can’t Afford A Baby” – Why Not? And Other Things Catholicism And Changing Society by F. L. Burke The Bourgeois Mine by Nicholas Berdyaev Ahead of His Time Strikebreakers Thieves, Says San Diego Pastor; Hurt Parishioners Object Boycott Hearst! Protest Work to Do! A Quiet Evening – An Account of a Company Union Meeting Clergy Protest Against Fascism and Red-Baiting Impossible to Control, Sweatshop Homes, Says Radio Speaker Book Reviews What Is a Parish? By Father John J. Harbrought Ills in AAA Spur Share Croppers to Organize by Ward H. Rodgers Facts About America The Gospel for the Sixth Sunday After Pentecost Maternity Guilds in Operation
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 04 (September 1935)

CONTENTS: Utilities’ Profit-System Cries for Social Regulation Approved Workers’ Rights Let Your Abundance Supply Their Want The Communism of the Catholic Worker by Peter Maurin Christian Nations Invite Ruin for Christendom Catholic Pickets Protest German Fascist Terror Labor Guild Security Bill Leaves Out Negro Women, Worst Paid Attention, Chicago Utility Consumers! Catholic Worker Readers Urged to Ask Release Of Tom Mooney Commission Says Owners Terrorize Harlan Miners Chicago Fights Race Prejudice, “Security” Wage by Arthur G. Falls, M.D. More Lynchings! No More Thugs? Our Children’s Corner Boycott Childs, Worker Urges! Bremen Demonstration Is Turned Into Riot By Police Tactics Union Organizer Gets Living Wage Maternity Guild Expands, Offers Hospital Care to Assisting Members Catholic Worker Program of Action Letters and Comment The Saint And The Soldier by Donald Powell Interracial William McDermit, Loyal Communist, Dies at 24 Religion and the Race Problem by Rev. John M. Cooper Communist Rural Work Dialogue on Rules That Their Abundance May Supply Your Want, Let Your Abundance Supply Their Want! Day After Day Kids Wear High Heels The Scottsboro Boys Wait for Justice Cleveland Readers Campion Propaganda Committee Questions on “The Fortieth Year” Social Sermonettes Interracial Review Note For Browder Bishops Lead Students In Anti-Nazi Campaign Invaders and Invaded Co-Ops Lead Gas Delivery In Rural North Dakota The Catholic Worker - Receipt
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 05 (October 1935)

CONTENTS: The Communist Party Vs. The Catholic Worker by Peter Marvin South Side Chicago Scene of Violence In Recent Protest Campion Group Pickets Consulate With Pictures Joe Bennett Dies; First Apostle of Labor of Catholic Worker Italy Invades Ethiopia; Christian Nation Succumbs To Pagan Ethics of War Towel Workers Retreat Progress of Farm Center Initiated by Priest Shows Way of the Crisis Bosses and Workers Bourgeois Colleges by Peter Maurin Crazy No Judicial Remedy, Says John F. Finerty In California Courts Msgr. McMahon Urges Prayer, Action, Sacrifice At Cleveland Congress Friend of Catholic Worker Bicycles Across Country and Boosts Circulation Margaret’s Message “Personalist Revolution” Is Leading Editorial In Midwest Paper Catholic Social Drama Given by 100,000 J.O.C. Campion Propaganda Committee Apologies Leadership Seamen Go Everywhere by Ivor Daniel Letters Sharecroppers, Tenant Farmers Keep Cotton Hanging in the Fields The Strike Hope for Herndon Harlem Tempo by Stanley Vishnewski Housing Commissioner Reveals Evils of Slums; Asks for Humanitarianism Colored High School Bringing Them In Company “Unions” Before the Alter On Relief Ford and His Followers Poison Their Workers Day After Day Vigilantes Get Kick-Back On Tar-Feather Party Church Trustee Apologizes To Slave – In 18th Century Farmers Push Plan For Power Co-Op Social Sermonettes The Preface for the Mass of Christ the King Erin and the Negro by Rev. Chas. Owen Rice With the Selling Force in Boston by Stanley Vishnewski The Madonna Is Dying! Our Children’s Corner
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 06 (November 1935)

CONTENTS: Granger Catholic Subsistence Farms Show Progress Parish Guild Assures Care to All Parents On Co-Operative Basis Back to Christ!—Back To The Land! By Peter Maurin Mexican Bishops’ Pastoral States Social Program Lynch Terror Fails To Stop Share Croppers’ Union Growth “I Was Racketeer for Capitalism,” Says Butler Agriculture and Industry by Donald Powell Social Sermonettes Catholic Seamen Ask for Justice, Not Protection St. Andrew, Apostle 1935 Lynching Record Aids Anti-Lynching Bill African Missionary Forms Native Co-Ops Our Own Ethiopians Conscientious Objection Duty of Christians Perjury of “Astral Body” Bared in Mooney Hearings Communism and the Negro by Editor Let’s Be Exploiters! Day By Day Thoughts Pertinent to The Negro Question They Are Annoyed Letters and Comment The Epistle: Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed Social Justice Demands Church Foster Farm Life Co-Operatives Striking New York Longshoremen Sent Back After Walkout Totalitarianism Book Reviews A Baby’s Chance to Live Farmers Mush Control Land, Says Speaker at Rural Life Conference Religious Background Formed Early Co-ops Gullup Miners Given Forty-Five Years After Clemency Plea We Need Overcoats! “Ora Et Labora” “No One Shall Starve” Questions on “The Fortieth Year” Company Unions Again Catholic Lay Action Notes on the Catholic Press Campions vs. Jersey Cops Campion Propaganda Committee
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 07 (December 1935)

CONTENTS: Student Worker Catholics to Picket Mexican Consul Institutions Vs. Corporations - Catholic Tactic by Pete Maurin Catholics Are Urged To Refuse Welcome To Germany’s Envoy Aristocrat-Plutocrat by Donald Powell Day by Day Account of Editor’s Travels Thru West and North Angelo Herndon The Sacrament of Duty by Joseph McSorley Student in Rome Protest Stand of Catholic Worker The Great Antiphons Ethics of Modern War Discussed in Brooklyn Catholics and Jews Seen Drawn Together By Their Sufferings by George Barnard Home on the Range The Approach of Fascism Demonstrate Cotton Picking Machine, Doing Work of 20 to 100 Men Liturgy and Sociology Thanksgiving! Merry Christmas! Letters and Comment Questions and Answers Catholic Activity—Catholic Action St. Joseph’s College Inaugurates School of Social Sciences Notes on the Catholic Press Can Prejudice Be Cured? By John LaFarge, S. J. Young “Cast-Offs” State’s Textile Board, Headed by Bishop, Asks Reforms for Industry Campion Propaganda Committee Books Again an Appeal—Please! The Chicago Letter Our Children’s Corner Working Wives Opposed By Priest in Mill Town
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 08 (January 1936)

CONTENTS: To Christ—To The Land! By Dorothy Day A New Social Order by Peter Maurin Jacques Maritain, Noted Philosopher, Is Guest of Paper Catholics Have No United Front With William R. Hearst Leningrad Bishop Praises Work of Catholic Worker Singer Co. Bandits Run Sharecroppers Out of Homes Catholicism and the Bourgeois Mind by Christopher Dawson United Fronts? Question and Answer The Failure of Reform by Donald Powell Scottsboro Boys’ Defense Reorganized Family of Seven Tries Primitive Life on Farm Cost of War The Family vs. Capitalism Letters and Comment The Feast of the Purification Will We Learn By Experience? St. Paul on Catholic Action Breeding Frankensteins Patriotism Liturgy and Sociology Relief—For the Baby Farmers Wanted Cold and Hunger Is Fatal To Man on 127th St. Pier Day By Day Notes on the Catholic Press A Bishop on True Charity Priest and Sailor by Rev. A. Van Vliet Campion Propaganda Committee Interracial Co-operation For Better Social Order An Interracial Program Mighty Mr. Morgan I Am No Saint by Leon Blov Frazier Says U.S. Leads On Road To War Overpopulation and Expansion Communists Are Loving Lynchings Increase Cruelty to Pup?
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 09 (February 1936)

CONTENTS: Idle Hands and Idle Lands by Peter Maurin Borden Milk Co. Forces A Company Union On Workers And Throws Out Contract ‘Bills of Rights’ By Civil Liberties Against Gag Bills Investigation of 1935 Lynchings Is Approved Interracial Radio Dialogue An Idea of a Farming Commune Lynching Scene Forces Catholic Action Priest Tells of ‘Mother Jones’ For the Mystical Body of Christ Social Sermonettes May’s Strike Investigation Vermont Marble Strike Reasons for Child Labor Law Vigilantes mob Sharecroppers’ Mass Meeting “T’Wan’t Fair!” Says Vicky A.F. of L. Is Anti-Negro False Rumors Regarding strike Unger by Marion F. Palmer Negro Congress Will Meet Soon in Chicago Catholics In Unions The Divine Office and The Christian Revolution Gradual and Tract – The First Sunday in Lent Letters and Comment The Foundation of Catholic Action by Saint Paul Day After Day Notes On The Catholic Press Freedom Of The Press The New Apologia Greed Of Operators And Lack Of Safety Scored By Miners Pinkerton Boy No Janitor Labor Shows the Way Synthesis Sharecroppers Get ‘Break’ “No High School For Negroes” To Be of Service by Karl Adam Standard Oil Suggests FERA Unites Negro, White Campion Propaganda Committee Co-Operation Capitalism, Fascism, Marxism Saint Dominic Via Crucis by Marion F. Palmer
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 09 (February 1936)

CONTENTS: Idle Hands and Idle Lands by Peter Maurin Borden Milk Co. Forces A Company Union On Workers And Throws Out Contract ‘Bills of Rights’ By Civil Liberties Against Gag Bills Investigation of 1935 Lynchings Is Approved Borden Men! Interracial Radio Dialogue Workers, Students! An Ideal of a Farming Commune Lynching Scene Forces Catholic Action Priest Tells of ‘Mother Jones’ For the Mystical Body of Christ Social Sermonettes May’s Strike Investigation Reasons for Child Labor Law Vigilantes Mob Sharecroppers’’ Mass Meeting A.F. of L. Is Anti-Negro False Rumors Regarding Strike Vermont Marble Strike “T’Want’t Fair!” Says Vicky Negro Congress Will Meet Soon in Chicago Catholics in Unions The Divine Office and The Christian Revolution Gradual and Tract – The First Sunday in Lent Letters and Comment Day After Day Notes on the Catholic Press Freedom of the Press The New Apologia by Cardinal Capecelatro Greed of Operators and Lack of Safety Scored By Miners Overcoats, Underwear! Pinkerton Boy No Janitor Synthesis Labor Shows the Way Sharecroppers Get ‘Break’ “No High School For Negroes” To Be of Service by Karl Adam Standard Oil Suggests FERA Unites Negro, White Campion Propaganda Committee Co-Operation Capitalism, Fascism, Marxism Saind Dominic Via Crucis by Marlon F. Plamer
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 03, No. 10 (April 1936)

CONTENTS: Borden Officials Attack ‘Worker’ In Paid ‘Ads’ Yes! I Am A Radical! By Peter Maurin War Imminent; Catholics Must Judge It Now Farming Commune 70 Miles Distant Marks Beginning Exiled Leader Tells Conditions of Cuban Labor Hospitality House Takes Quarters at New Site Church Openings In Mexican States Traced to Politics Hearst Reporters Gain Support Florida Vigilantes Crucify Jobless Bricklayer Masked Men Plough Under Poor—Families Starve in Arkansas Alabama Chain Gang And Evictions for Resettlement Farmers Oddity American-Jewish Congress Lynching and Legislation The Game to Date Chrysostom and the Crisis Senator Talks of War Anti-Semitism Priest Assails Mussolini With Thanks To Our Readers Day By Day Colonial Expansion by Peter Maurin Propaganda Did Its Work An Archbishop on Peace Letters From Our Readers Senators Fight Compulsory War Drill Notes On The Catholic Press Margaret Says An Archbishop on Wages May Day Distributors Wanted! General Butler On Oratorical Rampage The Death Dealer’s Song Book Hearst Newsreel Out Vermont Marble Company Hides Injustice Under Cloak of charity The Chicago Letter The Sequence Resolution to the Cuban Government The Campion Propaganda Committee Through Human Persons More About the Farming Commune Book Review Easter by William M. Callahan
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 01 (May 1936)

CONTENTS: Catholic Worker Celebrates 3rd Birthday; A Restatement of C. W. Aims and Ideals Vermont Marble Co. Strike is One Against Worst of Conditions Round-Table Discussions Farming Commune Is Finally Under Way; Workers Planting Now; More Ready To Go Another Catholic Paper Is With Us On Catholic Pacifism Communism of Communitarianism by Peter Maurin Philosophy of Labor by H. Hergenhan Boston Crowd Opens Workers’ Hospice and Food Center In A Textile Mill by Frank Downey Moving To Mott Street Interview With a Sharecropper The Encyclicals and The Negro Mary’s Month Food Two Just Men Feeding the Poor by Peter Maurin Social Sermonettes Another Birthday Why I Like The Communist by Donald Powell Against Capitalism Racial Prejudice Used In Liberty League Fight Scottsboro Again Poetic Justice Borden Difficulties Yet Unsolved After Stockholders Meet Cuban Catholics Face Growing Fascist Terrors Blessed Martin Revolutionary Personalist “Workers and Scholars” by A German Fellow Worker Letters From Our Readers Pacifism Selling Notes Nova Scotia Farmers Use Co-operative Fund For Hospitalization One Rascal Out, Another In
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 02 (June 1936)

CONTENTS: Seamen’s Strike Called Off; Union Heads Refuse Support Communist Wrath Aroused By Constructive Jesuit Program Black Legion Rise Indicative Of Fascist Trend Farming Commune Going Ahead Fast; Report of Work Easy Essays by Peter Maurin American Stores Clerks Strike in Philadelphia Cotton Croppers Demand Increase; 4,000 on Strike Loaves and Fishes We Are Importunate! Day After Day St. Isidore—Patron Saint of Farm Workers Mobile Catholic Action by Stanley Vishnewski Consumers’ Union Letters From Our Readers Lecture and Round Table Discussions Strikers Thank C.W. B.C. Lumbermen Strike for Union Recognition
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 03 (July 1936)

CONTENTS: Open Letter To President C. W. States Stand on Strikes Pa. Steel Workers Unionization Drive Bitterly Opposed Peter’s Book Here At Last View of Antigonish As Seen by Visitor Evicted Croppers, Negro and White, Start Co-op Farm Black Legion—And What To Do About It Nazi Kulturkamph Invades States of Central Europe The Negro and Co-operation Epistle from the Feast of St. Camillus, July 18 Radicals of the Right by Peter Maurin Farming Commune by James F. Montague A Priest Risks His Life
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 04 (August 1936)

CONTENTS: Benedictine Priest Works with Poor in Country Parish Father Kazincy, Workers’ Friend, Speaks for Labor Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Experiences of C.W. Editor In steel Towns With C.I.O. Ade Bethune Decorates Steel Workers’ Church Camden Strike Social Sermonettes Books Rural Workers Agriculture Boston Group Introit for Assumption Personal Responsibility League Against War and Fascism Letters and Comment A Letter From A Sister Labor Guild Farming Commune Canadian Catholics Build For New Life
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 05 (September 1936)

CONTENTS: Canadian Farming Commune Visited by C.W. Artist Communitarian Personalism by Peter Maurin Period of Strife and Suffering for Farm and Factory Marble Strikers Surrender After 8-Month Straggle Social Action Asked By Father Lord, S.J. Day After Day U.S. Army General throws War Scare, Backs Gun-Makers Fellow Worker Goes To N.J. Bean Fields What We Are Doing in Town and Country Catholic Chinese Co-op The Introit September “A Strong Conflict” Course in Co-ops Letters The Mystical Body and Spain Catholic Schools and The Negro Russia Goes Fascist Says Trotsky Farming Commune by James F. Montague
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 06 (October 1936)

CONTENTS: Fishermen Fight For Recognition of Union Rights Easy Essays by Peter Maurin C.W. to Organize Catholic Group to Protest War Workers of the World Unite! Under Christ, Light of the World Strikebreaking, Labor Spy Rackets Revealed Consumer Co-op Planned to Foil Milk Profiteers Worker Reports Just Strike in Reading Factory Radio City User Retracts Charge Against Employer in 2nd Letter Our Contemporaries Say: Catholic Worker Hears From 4 Bishops in Sept. ‘No Compromise With Mammon’--Rev. Paul Furfey The Right Way Sharecroppers Get Action in Arkansas Book Reviews Boston Letter Expect Vermont Dairymen to Support N.Y. Strike An Appeal Day After Day Sacco-Vanzetti! The Chicago Letter Letters From Our Readers Religion Is the Hope of the People The Negro Needs Co-operation! Employment Agents Milk Poor For Jobs Peace Day October 25th For Catholic Colleges Personalism and Communitarianism Open Letter to Father Lord, S.J. Farming Commune Exiled Anti-Fascist in Attack on Impure Means
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 07 (November 1936)

CONTENTS: Globe Strikers’ cause Is Right, Strike Is Wrong Mormons Relieve Brothers Without State Assistance Seamen Strike in Face of Corrupt Union Leadership Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Day After Day Fascism Revealed in German Persecution Negroes Lose Jobs When Union Bars Membership St. Thomas on Violence Communist or Not, Browder Has Right to Be Heard Steel Employs Armed Thugs Against C.I.O. Rural Catholic Leaders Speak for Distributism St. Louis Letter Seamen! Story Of A Florida Farm On the Use of Force The Functions of Government Co-operation in Racine Showing Labor Way Out Volunteers Wanted! Distributist Group Swing Into Action Catholic Worker School Doors Fly Open Before C.W.’s Managing Editor Philadelphia Forgets Its “Brotherly Love” The Use of Force Play Review Book Reviews Catholics and the State Co-op Hospital Chicago Letter Speaker at C.W. School Tells of Fighting Communism at Geneva Julia Has a Job Catholic Rural Life School U.S. Steelmakers Retreat To Cheap Labor South Letters From Our Readers All Hail Antigonish! Some Questions for Discussion by Stephen W. Johnson Farming Commune Catholic Students Get Important New Magazine St. Joseph’s House
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 08 (December 1936)

CONTENTS: Spanish Catholic Flays Both Sides! Seamen’s Morale High as Officers Walk Off Ships Labor-Spy Network, Fink Tactics Come to Light “PAX” Betraying Christ Planter Jailed for Enslaving Negro Farmers Right Political Action In Resettlement Projects Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Right of Refuge Denied By Modern Machiavellians Opposing Communism Houses of Hospitality Book Reviews Letters From Our Readers St. Louis Letter Christmas Appeal Great Convert A Love Story Day After Day Lynching Forecast Communism and Us Champion of Peace, Father Curran, Dies Farming Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 09 (January 1937)

CONTENTS: C. W. Faced With Eviction Open Letter to Union Leaders, Especially Joseph P. Ryan Government Kicks Sharecroppers Off Louisiana Land Open Letter to a Catholic Shipowner; Mutual Trust Needed Use Terrorism Upon Seamen Hitlerism Comes To New Jersey Docks After 20 years Mooney Close to Justification Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Cooperative Strike Endangers Movement Obliged to Help Seamen, Says New Orleans Priest Mott Street Breakfasts for Ambassadors From the Gods “PAX” Some Thoughts on Machinery by Phillips Temple From Xmas Message of Pius XI Employers Admit Superiority of Men to Machines Father McKeon Writes of Splendid Work in Philly Plays Book Reviews We’re Broke Again Epistle From Feast of St. Polycarp, Jan. 26 Day After Day Hotel New Yorker by Rev. Paul Bussard In Defense of Defense Letters From Our Readers Milk Co-operatives Fight Capitalists The Chicago Letter Vincent Pallotti Stanley Reports on steel Vineyards Student Magazine Full of Important Material Cardinal on Communism Chinses Missionary There Is No Negro Problem! So-Called Communists by Peter Maurin Farming Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 10 (February 1937)

CONTENTS: Auto Workers Have Right to Ask Sole Bargaining Agency “They Knew Him In The Breaking Of Bread” Dewey’s Probe of Union Racketeers Service to Labor Belgian Catholic Youth Warned Against Tenets of ‘Rex’ Organization Sit-Down Technique Is Legitimate One Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Seamen End Strike, Look To Inquiry N. Y. Post Charges Fink Book Is a Blow To All American Labor Catholic Students Join PAX Romana St. Louis Letter Bishop O’Hara Pays C.W. Visit Chicago Letter Social Sermonettes Need New Legislation For Milk Cooperation “PAX” Why We Recite Compline Day After Day Catholic Press Month Letters From Our Readers A Protest And An Answer On Spain by Stephen Johnson There Is No Negro Problem Our C.W. Newsboy Is Critic and Guide For Press Month Books The Catholic Theatre by Emmet Lavery Social Security The Land The Case For Ruralism by Dr. O. E. Baker Farming Commune by James F. Montague The Granger Homestead
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 11 (March 1937)

CONTENTS: Buck-Passing by Union Officials Betrays Members Employer Shows Catholic Way to Economic Peace C.W. Editor Calls on G.M. Strikers In Plant at Flint New Association For Catholics in Labor Movement Priest Does Swell Job Settling Labor Dispute Caesarism Or Personalism by Peter Maurin Lies, Deception Breeding Trouble on Waterfront Pax Romana Committee Presents Full Program Boston Letter by John Magee, Jr. Chicago Letter The Catholic Theatre by Emmet Lavery Plays The Prince of This World An Open Letter to St. Joseph From the Divine Office on Saturday Letters From Our Readers There Is No Negro Problem! “PAX” Peace Group Hits Mounting Arms Cost Book Reviews Youth-1937 by Peter A. Nearing The Trouble With Prejudice by Adelaide M. Mackey Annual Concert by Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music Mexican Martyrs Lead Catholics To Heroic Action Truce of God St. Louis Letter Protest! The Land Problems of Agriculture Christ of the Ridgeroad Farming Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 04, No. 12 (April 1937)

CONTENTS: 5 and 10 Strikers In N.Y. Sit-Down Win Concessions Open Letter to John Brophy, CIO Director Danger of Riots In Chicago Slums, Reports Dr. Falls The Sit-Down Technique by Peter Maurin Interview With a Southern Gentleman From Illinois C.A.T.U. Passes constitution and Makes Progress A New Encyclical Rochester Letter by John C. Fox Art and Revolution by Eric Gill The Catholic Theater by Emmet Lavery Boston Letter by John Magee, Jr. The Prince of the World Coordination Keynote of Social Colloquium German Bishops Say Church Will Outlive Nazism Day After Day Jesus Saith to Them, Come and Dine Letters From Our Readers Pax Romana Plans Are Under Way Catholic Editor Named Arbitrator of U.S. in Seattle Dock Dispute Chicago Letter Truce of God Observed In Spain New Hospice Opens Soon In Washington “PAX” St. Louis Letter by Cyril Echele Utility Workers Go CIO The Land Problems of Agriculture First Year at The Farm Farming Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 01 (May 1937)

CONTENTS: Open Letter to Father Curran on Technique Christianity United by Peter Maurin Rank-and-File Seamen Gain Final Victory Newspaper Guild Crossed in Strike Six Lectures by Peter Maurin on the Green Revolution Cardinal Urges Us To Care For Poor Selling Notes by Stanley Vishnewski Chicago Letter by Arthur G. Falls The Guild System by Paul Chaneon The Catholic Theatre by Emmet Lavery Boston Letter by John Magee, Jr. The Prince of This World Anniversary Day After Day Book Reviews Letters From Our Readers For the Center of a Triptych Union Man Speaks Out Catholics Discuss Justice For Negro How Not To Fight communism ACTU Goes Forward On All Fronts St. Louis Letter by Cyril Echele Idea for a Play Hill-Sheppard Bill The Land Problems of Agriculture Addresses Archbishop On Rural Conference Farming Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 02 (June 1937)

CONTENTS: Cops Murder Six Pickets In Chi Riot Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Idea of “Living Family Wage Unknown Here Catholic Worker Prevents United front, Says Ward Pitt Priests Do Fine Job C.I.O. Gets Approval By Rome ACTU Taking Hold in N.Y.C. CIO Union Holds Hope For Workers In Stock Yards New Branch of C.W. Opens in Chicago Usury and Capitalism The Catholic Theatre by Emmet Lavery Boston Letter by John Magee, Jr. “A Story Of Land And Sea” Catholic Radical Alliance Day After Day My Brother’s Keeper by Virginia Rankin Christ the Victor by Ade Bethune Thank You, Fellow Workers! Letters From Our Readers Bedtime Story St. Louis Letter Ethics of War Right Radicalism The Land An Acadian Village by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arranged by Peter Maurin Archbishop Stritch Invites C.W. Editor To Speak at Meeting Farming Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 03 (July 1937)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Who is Guilty of “Murders” In Chicago? Some Reasons Catholic worker Answers Attack Girl In Jail Priest Urges Living Family Wage in U.S. CIO and Rome Pastoral Letter on Mexic Chicago Letter St. Vincent De Paul Report Buy Union Label! Dr. Ward Objects Holy Poverty and Destitution The Catholic Theatre by Emmet Lavery Boston Letter by Katherine O’Hearn Letter to a Young Priest PAX The Opium Of The People? Becoming An Organizer ACTU Prefers To Be Inside, Not Outside Catholic Action and the Slums by M. P. Linehan Fr. Hensler on C.I.O. Of Cats, Cheese, and Co-operation ACTU Activity Report of Rochester “C.W.” Group for ’36-‘37 Activities of Catholic Radical Alliance Lynching St. Louis Letter by Donn Gallagher The Catholic Radical Alliance Note on Murder The Land On The Use of Force Why Not a Peasantry? By Alfred Grosch Farming Commune Christocrat
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 04 (August 1937)

CONTENTS: Cardinal Answers Criticism Lowell C.W.’s Aid Strike Easy Essay’s by Peter Maurin Christ Would Be Union Man House Sounder, Paper Smaller, Line The Same – Day After Day New Unity For Seamen A.C.T.U. Boston Letter by Katherine O’Hearn Saint Joseph by Sister Marie Stella Catholic Radical Alliance by Rev. Charles Owen Rice ACTU Classes For Speaking and Union Law PAX Pamphlet Review by Stanley Vishnewski ACTU Makes Rome By Way of Buffalo The Land Farming Commune by James F. Montague What Is a Neutral Union?
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 05 (September 1937)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Lesson In Ethiopian War Plans Conscientious Objector Hitler In Open Slam On Church Farm Colony Larger, Needs Second Farm Join the Union! Natural And Supernatural Duty Conditions for a Just War Pittsburgh Alliance In Two Rallies CW’s Visit, Encourage Boston CW Priests Show Interest in ACTU Action Racial Prejudice Is A Stupid Sin! Communism The Land A Village Experiment Farming Commune by James F. Montague Event of the Month
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 06 (October 1937)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Why Farmers Leave Farms Liberals Blow War Bugles in Spanish Key CW Helps CIO In Election Republic Strikers Still Out Invitation to Slander by Donald Powell Interview With Murphy by Dorothy Day The Injustice of Christ’s Justice Chi CW Holds Retreat, Makes Plea for Poor Active Aid By ACTU In Strike Pittsburgh Boston Detroit Milwaukee The Land A Village Experiment Murderers
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 07 (November 1937)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin “No Regrets,” Mooney Tells C.W. Interviewer by Dorothy Day This Issue Devoted to C.W. Cells Invitation To Monks by Donald Powell An Open Letter to the Editor Why Incorporate? Milwaukee CW Going to Town with House, School, Propaganda Gov. Murphy Washington Group Hears Fr. Furfey, Holds Retreats St. Louis Workers Yield No Ground To Discouragement Alliance Gets House, Pushes Usual Action Chicago Catholic Worker Canadian Workers Offer Communions For Labor Dead Workers School Born; CW, ACTU Help Strikes Boston House Needs Help New C.W. Centers In Detroit and Far South The Land The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith Maritain on Spain
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 08 (December 1937)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin California C.W. Groups Starting Right Help the Missions! Industiral Farm System Attacked by Fr. Philipps “Red-Baiting Futile,” Says Father Gillis Father O’Kelly Does Fine Work on West Coast “Look On The Face of Thy Christ” Labor Is Cheap In California Eric Gill Says Workers Should Control Machines Letter to the Unemployed ACTU Has Party, Joins Adoration Poor Flick to Milwaukee C.W. Missionary’s Mite Pleased by Elsie Robinson Crowds at School; CW-ACTU in Strikes Murderers West Coast Unions Wage Civil War by Carl R. Sheridan “Big Business” Exponent Stirs Up St. Louis C.W.’s Father Michel’s Book Important Father Furfey, Callahan Talk At Pittsburgh Msgr. O’Toole’s New Pamphlet “Powerful” Job 100,000 Settlers Make Dust Bowl Serious Problem Movie Shown, Stores Opened By Boston CW The Point of View on Peace by Emmanuel Mounier English C.W. Writes C.W.’s Attend Conference on Rural Life Varied Opinions In Church Too Sissy States by Donald Powell Mott St. Creche The Land An Answer To All… Once and For All Farming Commune by John Curran A Prayer Prayer of Saint Francis of Assissi
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 09 (January 1938)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Here We Go Again! News from Town and Country Priest Starts Farm Co-Op Civil Rights In Louisiana by H. C. N. Florence Is a Communist Can Hague Be Stopped? Roll of Honor by Donald Powell Hat Strike Raises Old Issue, “Man vs. Machine” Letter About Job Hunting, To Mary “We Ask For Yo’alls Mercy!” Mobs vs. Heroes ACTU Hits At Hague The Feast of the Purification Forced Labor by Fiodor Dostoievski St. Joseph’s Holds Negro Conference Plays Death In Our Midst Tom Mooney Against Fascism Letters From Our Readers Book Review Catholic Worker Cells My Country ‘Tis Of Thee by John Houlihan Some Aspects and Causes of the Agricultural Labor Situation in California by L. Langford Idea For a Farm Commune
The Catholic Worker, Vol. 05, No. 10 (February 1938)

CONTENTS: Easy Essays by Peter Maurin Week of Prayer for Peace Of Finances and Personal Initiative C.W. Reader Tells Story of Weavers In Sweatshops Pacific Coast Labor Troubles Are Mounting Unionizing the Unemployed Book Review ACTU Helps Edison Men; Starts Paper The Outstretched Hand by Pope Pius XI Investigate Discrimination Negro Scholarship The Land Catholic Union of The Unemployed Co-op Priest Tells of Gains During Month Interview With Our Best Farmer Florida Commune C.W. Cells