"The Interchurch World Movement and the Great
Steel Strike of 1919-1920," Eldon G. Ernst , Church
History, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Jun., 1970), pp. 212-22; Published by: Cambridge
University Press on behalf of the American
Society of Church History ; Article Stable URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3163388.
The
conference,
presided
over
by
Methodist
Bishop
Francis
J.
McConnell,
long-time
social
gospel
leader,17
did
not
intend
to
make
judgmental
statements
about
specific
industrial
conflicts.
It
rather
sought
"to
point
out
the
moral
principles
involved
in
all
industrial
rela-
tions
and
to
suggest
some
methods
applicable
to
the
present
situa-
tion
.
.
.
.
to
indicate
the
Christian
bases
upon
which
these
problems
can
be
solved."'8
The
conference
issued
just
such
a
statement.l9
It
was
similar
to
the
Federal
Council
of
Churches
document
"The
Church
and
Social
Reconstruction"
formulated
five
months
earlier,20
and
the
(American
Catholic)
"Bishops
Program
of
Social
Reconstruction"
adopted
in
1919,21
calling
for
the
application
of
Christian
love
to
in-
dustrial
relations,
supporting
the
right
of
collective
bargaining,
and
advocating
equal
opportunity
for
women,
Negroes,
and
foreign-born
in
industry.
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