id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005196877 Higgins, George, 1916-2002. Labor Day statement, 1972 1972 .txt text/plain 2356 77 60 The Pope stressed the Church’s concern for the condition of working people at a general audi- ence attended by several thousand of their number. The companies (if they know what’s good for them) and the unions too—every- body should be thinking, and soon, about giving people better lives.” Philosophers, theologians and social scientists could probably state this objective in more eloquent and high-sounding language, but it is doubtful that, with all their learning and sophistication, they could improve upon it as a statement of what millions of working people rightfully expect from an economic system which claims to be the most efficient and most productive in the history of the world. cache/_005196877.txt txt/_005196877.txt