Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1941-1945

Official Organ of the Diocese of San Diego, November 17, 1944

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Catholics and Non-Catholics Attend Seminar. Practicing democracy in an impressive manner, fair .. minded and far-visioned rep- 1·esentatives of management and labor in San Diego met Nov. 9, 10 and 11 in the San Diego ·woman's club to frank– ly state their problems and offer intelligent suggestions for solving them and making the United States a better place for all to live. The Seminar on Industrial Re• lations which brought them to– gether was sponsored by Catholic Action groups ot San Diego with tlle enthusiastic support of the Most Rev. Charles F. Buddy. Both Catholics and non-Catholics par• ticipated as speakers, discussion leaders and audience, the latter group contributing stimulating questions in the open forums which climaxed each session of the seminar. Government was represented in the person of Or• dean Rockey of the U. s. Depart• ment of Labor's Conciliation Ser• vice. Distinguished members of th& clergy, "servants of both manage• ment and the worker" as His Ex• cellency, Bishop Buddy, expressed their position in his introductory remarks, defined the Church's stand on the various industrial is• sues, frequently referring to Papal (Continued on Page 5)

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Participating in San Diego's first annual Seminar ion Industrial Relations on the opening night were· l\lax J. Osslo of the Central Labor Council, discussion leader; the Very Rev. l\lsgr. Martin Cody Keat: ing, state chapl~in of t_he California American Federation of Labor and former pastor of St. John's church in San Diego, principal speaker of the evening; the l\lost Rev. Bishop Charles F. Buddy who arranged the seminar in conjunction with Catholic Action groups of San Diego, and Joseph A. Walsh in\'estment broker, another leader of discussion.. ' Social Workers' Club Says Diocese Partakes New Detention Home Illegal In Both National

Bishop Thanked fo r Stand Against No. 12 Representatives of union labor called on the Most Rev. Charles F. Buddy at the Chancery office Saturday morning to express ap– preciation for His Excellency•s stand against Proposition No. 12. The committee designated to ex– tend this courtesy was composed of K. G. Bitter, secretary of the San Diego Building Trades coun- , cil and vice president of the Cali– fornia State Federation of Labor for this district; R. E. Noonan, secretary of the Federated Trades and Labor council of San Diego county; Max J. Osslo, secretary– business manager of Butcher Union No. 229 and a vice president in the Western Federation of Butchers-all members of the Board of Administration of the Federated Trades and Labor coun– cil, and J. William Parker, assist– ant secretary of Building Trades council

Labor Conventions SAN DIEGO, Nov. 16.-Chan– cery officials announced today that the Rev. Joseph A. Luther has been appointed by the Most Rev. Bi¥hop Charles F. Buddy to represent the diocese at the con– vention of the American Federa– tion of Labor in New Orleans Nov. 20-23. Father Luther left Wednesday, Nov. 15, to fill this appointment. This learned priest of the Cath– edral staff is diocesan labor repre– sentative and has won the esteem and confidence or both manage– ment and labor in San Diego. Father Davis to Chicago The Rev. Leo L. Davis, pursuing a course of higher sociological studies and specializing in labor relations, was last week advised by the Most Reverend Bishop to attend the labor convention of the Committee for Industrial Organi– zation which convenes Nov. 20 at Chicago. Father Davis will meet Messen– gers James Carey and John Bro– phy of the CIO as well as the or– ganization's national president, Philip Murray. Former pastor of Descanso, Father Davis distinguished him– self as a leader of young people and was the first priest appointed to :!Ct as moderator of the San Diego branch of ACTU, national organization of Catholic workmen.

The following letter from Ken– neth E. Barnhart, chairman of the committee appointed by the San Diego Social Workers' club to in– vestigate the bringing of action against the completion of the De– tention Tiome, was received by Ro rt '· Get· , .Aud'tor-Comp– trol'fer of San Diego cow1ty: I am writing this letter under instructions from a Committee ap• pointed by the San Diego Social \Yorkers' Club, of which I am Chairman, to investigate the new Maximum Security Detention Unit now being constructed in the rear of Anthony Home on Mission Val– ley Road by Stanton-Reed, con– tractor. We have examined the blue prints of this building, together with all accompanying letters and legal data pertaining thereto, in– cluding the minutes of the meet– ings of the Board of Supervisors regarding their action taken on this matter, and other accompany– ing data, all of which are located in Room 308 of the Civic Center. We wish to call your attention to the following facts, in view of your official position as Auditor– Comptroller of San Diego county. One letter is in Room 308, Civic Center, dated March 20, 1944, from Mr. John Plover, Sacramento, to Mr. E. L. Freeland, Structural En– gineer, 602 Spreckles Bldg., says " ... Today the Youth A-athority carefully examined these plans and I have given them approval in every ,r way." 1 f in part:

to the same person saying virtual– ly the same thing within a space of some two months, we sent the following telegram to Mr. Karl Holton, Director of the California Youth Authority in Sacramento on October 23, 1944: "Did Ycuth Authority Board officially approve plans for Maxi– mum Security Detention Building at Anthony Home now under con– struction?'• I have in my possession the an– swer to our telegram, dated Sac– ramento, October 27, 1944, and which I will be glad to furnish a certified photo-static copy of if desired, which reads as follows: "John Plover and 0. H. Close gave verbal approval of San Diego Detention Unit. Youth Authority Board took no official action since Attorney General ruled Youth Au– thority not empowered to officially approve or disapprove Detention Home." (Signed) "W. L. Tregoning, Clerk of Youth Authority." As you can readily see, there ls a very serious discrepancy between the statements in the two letters from Mr. Plover, and the telegram from the Youth Authority to me. It further appears that the Board of Supervisors approved of this building, and the contract given for its erection, as the result of the two letters from Mr. Plover in which he stated very emphatic- (Continued on Page 8)

A second letter from Mr. Plover to Mr. Freeland, dated May 23, 1944, says in part: " . . . I find the plans are satis– factory in every way and have no hesitancy in stating that they meet with the approval of the Authority." As tt appeared queer to our Committee that there should be two letters from the same person