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priority. To finance this program it will be necessary to shift our military priorities and to reform our tax system. For so long we have accommodated to the outmoded trickle down theory which has not worked; we will have to have faith in a ripple theory, hoping the more productive persons will stimulate the economy. For a while we can expect a short-run dislocation as we hope for a long-term benefit.

We must, however, not look at the cost alone. To inaugurate and implement the continuity of a full employment program may help America to become the Nation so many of us have idealized her to be: Of the people, by the people, for the people. Through this program of full employment we could begin to redistribute incomes, begin to erase racial hatred caused by insecurity, begin to rehabilitate ex-offenders and begin to motivate persons on the margin of society to assume their rightful roles as citizens. We realize that a full employment program is not a panacea; it can, however, be a beginning for millions who are losing hope and we endorse this beginning: Justice & Peace Center, Milwaukee; Wisconsin Catholic Conference; Executive Committee of Milwaukee Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women; Wisconsin Network: Priests Council of Green Bay Diocese; Green Bay Diocesan Family Life Office; Office of Religious Educators of Milwaukee Archdiocese; Wisconsin Program for Women & Girl Offenders; Social Concerns Office of Diocese of Green Bay; Milwaukee Council on Urban Life; Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Community; Catholic Social Service; and The Leadership Conference of Women Religions..

Thank you very much.

Mr. HAWKINS. Thank you, Sister Regina. Would you remain seated in the event that some of the members of the committee may wish to ask questions.

May I before proceeding just interrupt you for just one minute for some physical adjustment. I wonder if the persons who are standing in the rear of the room would like to occupy these chairs in the jury box. The young lady nearest to the door, and the rest of those standing, if you wish, would you come up at this time and be seated up here. There are a few other chairs just in front also for any of you who would like to occupy those and the jury box.

Thank you very much.

Sister Regina, I think your statement is a very excellent one. I really don't think it creates many questions because I think that it is well thought through and certainly represents the organizations that you have listed.

I understand that to you full employment includes a qualitative as well as a quantitative concept.

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. Yes.

Mr. HAWKINS. And that you also endorse the idea of planning to reach the goal rather than simply stating the goal without any mechanism or any planning toward reaching it.

Well. I certainly want to commend you on your statement.

Are there any questions from any of the other members?

Mr. Buchanan.

Mr. BUCHANAN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I, too, would like to commend Sister Regina for this very fine statement and to ask just one question pertaining to a portion of it.

Sister, you indicated in your statement that while the problem is greater for blacks, native Americans, youth, and women, that also there are college graduates who are affected. We had testimony before this subcommittee recently from a community college president who reported that many college graduates are coming back to him to obtain skills to help them find a job because they could not find one. Would you agree that a part of the solution to this problem has to be in the educational system itself so that we are preparing people a little better for the employment opportunities that are there?

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. I agree thoroughly. I have been a college teacher until about 2 years ago and I think we have had many unrealistic goals and I think the educational system has to also look at this problem.

Mr. BUCHANAN. I want to thank you again for your very fine testimony.

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. Thank you.

Mr. HAWKINS. I think Mr. Clay of Missouri and then possibly Mr. Reuss of Wisconsin also have some questions.

Mr. Clay.

Mr. CLAY. First of all I would like to commend you, Sister, on an excellent statement and appreciate the fact that you point out that perhaps it might be costly to implement such a program that is necessary. I think that too many people in America are concerned about what it would cost to implement a full employment program and I think it is about time that we start talking in terms that you have been talking in and perhaps you might want to elaborate on what it is costing us now in terms of human suffering because we are not willing to commit ourselves financially to full employment.

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. I think it is just fitting. We are sitting here talking about full employment when people that did come in a little while ago and probably did cause somewhat of a disturbance, I think that is understandable. They perhaps are people who are suffering because they do not have a job, and as much as we can empathize we still are not in the lines looking for a job.

Those of us who watched the program Welfare the other night again can understand what it is to go through redtape and come day after day to try to get a job, to have the willingness to work and the capability to work and then be termed by many of our neighbors as lazy, shiftless, not wanting to take care of ourselves, and these terms apply especially to many of our minority groups. It must be exceedingly difficult to-day in and day out-be accused of shiftlessness when jobs are just not there.

I think when you look at some of the underemployment such as in the sugarcane fields in Louisiana or if you look at the Appalachian area-if you take the sugarcane fields where sugar was at its highest price and yet the people there could barely exist and were living in hovels, if you take the migrants and especially the Chavez group right now that have to fight in order to live just on a human level and they are living on subhuman levels, and this is rich America that has money to put into a B-1 bomber, that has money to put into a Trident submarine, that when the money gets into billions it is really not even considered as an enormous amount and yet these people live in this rich country and can't live on a human level.

Mr. CLAY. Thank you, Sister.

Mr. HAWKINS. Mr. Reuss.

Mr. REUSS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I, too, thought yours was a beautiful statement, Sister.

Incidentally, you have made available petitions on this bill signed by many hundreds of people. If I may, Mr. Chairman, I am going to offer those for your permanent record.

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. Thank you very much.

[The petitions follow:]

Hon. HENRY REUSS,

Milwaukee, Wis.

I commend you for sponsoring this bill and for having public hearings on it to discuss its implementation.

I support the concept of full employment which guarantees the right for useful and meaningful employment to every adult American able and willing to work and sets up a comprehensive national economic program to achieve this goal. As part of achieving this goal, I endorse integrated national action to meet such needs as adequate health care for all, decent housing for every family, and the elimination of poverty.

Sister Loretta Haig

Sister Denise Frohmader Sister Laura Cook

Sister Inez DeClercq, RN Marilyn Gundry

Paula Raibley

Jane Segner

Mary Jo Frick

Sister Joan Puls
S. Joan Koehler

Sister Elizabeth Fiorite
Jane Host

Charles Fischer

Sister Marian Diedrick
Thomas J. Darrow
Rev. John Blaha
Zola E. Fischer
Lois Hammen

Mrs. Ambrose Hammen
Iris Jean Rennebohm
Lari DeBruin

Gerard W. Romenesko
Randall J. Hanson
Darlene Schmidt
Mrs. Jan Voipahl
Mrs. Pat Jansen
Nancy Hinzman

Sister Sandy Lasecke
Vickie Bonin

Sister Beth Konkol

Nick Jansen

Louise Van Harpen
Gary Nack

Mrs. Wilma Van Dyke
Ruth Fuchsgruber

Sister Rita Vander Velden
Pauline Van Lankvelt
Mary K. Schmidt
Edward J. Hammer

Sister Virginia Weiss

Sister Agnes Johnson

Sister Patricia Stadler

Donald C. Mathes

Sister Audrey Affholder
S. Florence M. Shigo
Sister Jane Hoffmann
Peter Hoffmann

Sister Caroline Diderrich

Sister Celia Evers

Sister Jean Watt

Sister Edna Mae Weldgen

Sister Rose Martin
Evelyn S. Williams
Linda Peterson
Betty J. Thompson
Dorothy C. Triplett
Mrs. Joseph Mennen
Sister Bertille Markunas
Loretta Lechtenberg

Sister Mary Bernice Flaherty
S. Marylois La Fortune
Sister Florence Marzolf
Sister Davida Finn

Margaret Muier

Viola Aures

Alice McCormick

Sister Mary Matthew

Sister Marie Louise Chateau

S. Mary Raynoha

Betty Dickermann

Sister Margaret Baumgartner

Sister Colman Keeley, OSF

Sister Judene Walsh

David R. Hansen

Sister Ceila Freiburger
Stephen A. Dinan

Donald S. Herrar

Mrs. Philip Trimberger
Mrs. Alphonse Poker
Sister Euthalis Kuhnlein
S. Virginia Honish
Catherine Murphy
Sister Borgia Rettler
Sister Carmen Tammaro

Sister Patricia Pechauer
Teresa Rebholz
Sister Diane Kenel
Sister Pauline Walsh
Sister Avita DeGroot
Barbara Tauscher
Sister Charity Wouters
Sister Annette Caron
Sister Clarone Brill
Sister Adele Marie

Sister Alphonsa Puls
Nenone Rhee
Robert Wright

Sister Marietta Hanus

Sister Mauritia McNamee

John Tauscher

Jean Ferstl

Anne Morehouse

Joann Blomme

Sister Mary Gabriel Van Dreel

Sister M. Bertrand Lui
Sister Beatrice Gindt
Sister Joyce Prisalowicz

Sister Raphael Houlehan
Barbara Farnum

Randall Farnum

S. Rose Stashek

Sister Betty Reinders

Sister Mary Rose Menting

Sister Mary Ann Maradik
Sister Louise Hunt
Jeanne Post

Roger L. Post

Sister M. Bertha Nowak

Sister Marian Schreiner

Sister Lucy Rudolf

Sister Virginia Schwartz, OSM

Sister Bertrand Lui

Sister Ada Marie Harner

Sister Basilia Trepanier

Sister Agnes Ballweg

Sister Marie Gertrude Mlodzik

Sister Regis F. Butler
Sister Tharsilla Gindt

Sister Alice Rademacher
Susan M. Donahue

Alice Deery

Royal Deery

Cletus G. Freiburger

Sister Jane Eschwiler, S.D.S.
Sister Kathleen Phelan, O.P.
Miss Jan Kons
Mary Piraino

Sister Cecilia Selu O.P.

Sister Emma Hoffman

Sister Melissa Locken

Sister Mary Jo Wamer
Sister Ellen Ryan

Sister Ellen Diez

Sister Sigolena Vogel

Sister Karen Vollmer, O.P. Sister Genesia Ginter, O.S.F. Sister Pat Mary Daniels, O.S.F. Sr. Catherine Holthaus

Sister Mary Alexander

Sister Martha Komendy
Sister Helen Wenzel
S. M. Probata O.S.F.
Sr. M. Thoddea O.S.F.
Sr. M. Jamaria, O.S.F.
S. M. Lambertine O.S.F.
Mabel A. Wehner N.A.
Sister M. Hilda, O.S.F.
Sister M. Angeline, O.S.F.
Sister Rosolita Hurley
Sister Crescentia Ruefer
Sister Lauriana Krienert
Sister Solina Fruehe

Sister M. Annette Bunzel
Sister M. Mirabella Brehmer
Sister M. Hugeline Bittner
Sister M. Nominandor Danzer

Sister M. Modestine Schoenborn

Sr. Alverna Marie

Sr. Engratia

Sr. Gundrada

Sister Bunadette Hauser
Sister Addasta Miller

Sister Martha Mary Grohall

Sister Florida van den Daele

Sister M. Belina Zehetbauer

Sister M. Trudberta
Sister Rasolima Niber

Sister Acutina

Sister Anna Marie Harris

Sister Augustella Sutter
Sister Fracia Brill

Sister Dofrosa Homes

Sister Valencia van Driel
Sister Rita Clare Kolo
Sister Lambert Williams
Sr. Fidelis Kalhny

Sr. Lumbrosia Rasche
Sister Mary Anticia
Sister Theresita Skolaski

Sister Leomitis Shefchik

Sister Thomasine Nels, O.S.F.

S. Patricia Michaelin Woeckner Sister Viola Blissenbach

Sister Gratiana

Sister Antonetta

Sr. Agnes Rose Pint
Sister Laurissa Sibbel

Sr. Leonard Kreidermacher
Sister Naomi Schoen

Sister Regina Gebhard

Sister Cecelia Ann Rencht

Sister Margaret Recefer

Sister M. Gemma

Sister Alvernia

Sister Margaret Ann Schlenz

Sister M. Ruth Hilda, O.S.F.

Sr. Hubertine Vollmer

Sr. Anastasius Hill

Sr. Deodigna Schirra
Sister Agnella Bialk
Sister Mae Theobald
Sister Angilberta

Sr. Rose Marie Dischler
Mrs. James R. Carthy

Margaret M'Coy

Mrs. Rita Hoppenjan
Mrs. L. Schulze
Mrs. Y. Bleser
Shirley M. Beckman
Mary Catherine Nilles
Sr. Clarice Sevegney
Sr. Yvonne Arnoldi
Nancy McCatchy
James R. McCarthy
Sr. Eva Marie Kahat
Sister Roswinda Sterner
Sr. Mary Gereon Esser
Sister Teresa Augustiny
St. Anania Grossman

Sr. Mary Agnes Gloudeman
Sr. Gerberta Von Bank
Sr. Chrysantha Klaas
Sister Ursula Ann Stroedes
Sister Reginold Brainger
Sister Digna Clare
Sister Bernadine Imhoff
Sister Ann Marie Stoffel
Sister Florian Rebman
Sister Adjutora Geigel
Sister Teresa Augustiny
Sr. Florence Bauer
Sister Mary Prisca
Sr. Loretella

Mr. REUSS. I would ask just one question. You say that the cost of an effective full employment program will be high and, of course, initially it would be. Is it not a fact, however, that if we did have something like full employment in this country we would then have a balanced budget? Would not the savings on unnecessary welfare costs, unemployment compensation, food stamps, and many other related programs, transform people from people who eat taxes into people. who pay taxes?

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. Yes. People will be taxpayers and with dignity can help support the country.

Mr. REUSS. Thank you very much.

Mr. HAWKINS. Thank you, Mr. Reuss.
Thank you, Sister.

Sister REGINA WILLIAMS. Thank you.

Mr. HAWKINS. At this point we will insert in the record the statement of Mr. Charles M. Phillips, executive director of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference.

[The statement follows:]

PREPARED STATEMENT OF CHARLES M. PHILLIPS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WISCONSIN CATHOLIC CONFERENCE-PRESENTED BY: SR. LOIS VANDERBEKE O.P.

I am Lois Vanderbeke, here this morning to represent Mr. Charles Phillips, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Catholic Conference. Mr. Phillips is unable to appear in person because of a previous commitment in Stevens Point where he is meeting with a state-wide committee working on the Catholic Church's Bicentennial program of Liberty and Justice For All.

In a specific way the Wisconsin Catholic Conference's support of H.R. 50 promotes the Church's Bicentennial theme of Liberty and Justice For All because this bill asks us as a nation to re-establish our priorities and to unite in a common effort to achieve a goal which could have a substantial good effect on our society.

The Catholic Church has a long tradition of concern for employment opportunities, and Catholic teachings on economic justice are rich with the recurrent theme of man's "right to work".

In the bleak depression year of 1931, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical On Restructuring the Social Order, and stressed the importance of society providing "the opportunity to work for those who are able and willing to work". Pope John XXIII, the well known, beloved Pontiff of the early 60s said in his encyclical message, Peace on Earth "If we turn our attention to the economic sphere, it is clear that man has a right by the natural law to an opportunity to work .

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