Text of Two Addresses (September 4, 1960): What Problems Confront American Labor and What Are the Answers? [and] New Dimensions for the House of Labor

Fritchman, Rev. Stephen H. [Hole] and Wyndham Mortimer

Published by First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1960

About this Item

Please note: these addresses are *not* reprinted in the Rev. Fritchman's posthumous collection of sermons and addresses entitled "For the Sake of Clarity." Offered is the text of two addresses given at the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles on Labor Day, Sunday, September 4, 1960: "What Problems Confront American Labor and What Are the Answers?" by Wyndham Mortimer, former Vice-President of the United Auto Workers; and "New Dimensions for the House of Labor," a Pulpit Editorial by the Rev. Stephen H. Fritchman, and published in mimeographed print form in that year by the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. The document measures 8-1/2" by 14" and contains six pages of text, plus the rear page that measures 8-1/2" by 11" containing the text "Report of the Past Year" and "Proposals for the Future" from the Labor Committee of the Los Angeles Chapter of The Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice. Two brief excerpts from Mr. Mortimer's address: "Aside from the usual cause of unemployment, erroneously called 'Over production,' we have today two major causes of five million men and women without work" - "The first of these is called 'Automation' and the second one is the flight of jobs to the low wage areas of the world." A brief excerpt from the Rev. Fritchman's Pulpit Editorial: "As some of you know, I have just returned from a disarmament conference in Tokyo [Rev. Fritchman is referring to the Sixth World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs and for Total Disarmament, held in Tokyo, Japan, on August 2, 1960] and the most compelling conclusion I have drawn from my Japanese experience is this: The survival of the human race is the pre-condition of any other goals we may cherish - and that survival is far from being guaranteed at this hour in our history. And, I would add that American labor cannot avoid some of the responsibility for this situation. It is not all to be laid at the doorstep of the Pentagon or the State Department." Folded once, as issued. The REVEREND STEPHEN H. [HOLE] FRITCHMAN (1902-1981), author, liberal humanist, and social and antiwar activist, was the minister of the progressive First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, California, from 1948 to 1969.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Text of Two Addresses (September 4, 1960): What Problems Confront American Labor and What Are the Answers? [and] New Dimensions for the House of Labor
• Publisher: First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
• Publication Date: 1960
• Language: English
• Binding: Stapled Wraps
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Radical and Progressive
  • Religion: Christianity
  • Philosophy and Sociology