{"id":39824,"date":"2013-08-31T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/adon_taft-labor_day_and_the_unions_forgotten_religious_roots\/"},"modified":"2013-08-31T20:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T20:02:04","slug":"adon_taft-labor_day_and_the_unions_forgotten_religious_roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39824","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Adon Taft&#8211;Labor Day and the unions\u2019 forgotten religious roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union leaders have forgotten the religious roots of organized labor in this country. Terence Vincent Powderly, who led the Knights\u2019 outreach across the nation, was a devout Catholic influenced by his Baptist lay preacher predecessor, Uriah Stephens. Powderly, a nonsmoking teetotaler, attributed the roots of the labor movement to Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in 1893 on the history of the Labor Day observance \u201d\u201d which had begun only the year before and wasn\u2019t declared a national holiday until President Grover Cleveland acted in 1894 \u201d\u201d Powderly recounted centuries of labor history:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrades-unionists, members of guilds, leagues and other organizations of workingmen embraced Christianity and proclaimed its doctrines as being especially advantageous to the welfare of the toiling poor,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/08\/29\/commentary-labor-day-and-the-unions-forgotten-religious-roots\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union leaders have forgotten the religious roots of organized labor in this country. Terence Vincent Powderly, who led the Knights\u2019 outreach across the nation, was a devout Catholic influenced by his Baptist lay preacher predecessor, Uriah Stephens. Powderly, a nonsmoking<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39824\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,133,597,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-history","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}