Union Labels

"I am very pleased to let you know your plea has been successful," wrote Father Ryan to Matthew Woll.

Mr. Woll is one of the powers in American Labor. His committee of trade-union men pleaded that all prayer-books, religious literature and articles used in churches should bear a label signifying that it had been produced by American union labor.

The plea was made to Catholics, to Protestant Episcopalians, to the Fed- eral Council of Churches. Catholics were first to act.

Father Ryan is Secretary of the Administrative Committee of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. His committee, by granting Mr. Woll's plea, will prohibit imports of religious material estimated at $35,000,000 annually, and will transfer this business to U. S. printers, engravers, binders and allied tradesmen.

Protestant Episcopal Bishops have the plea under consideration. The Federal Council, representing nearly all other Protestant denominations, will discuss it in Atlanta in December.