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Americans generally recognize the right of labor to enjoy a decent standard of living, including leisure time, the privilege of owning one’s own home and financial security. With the growth of unions, cultural respect for labor has grown. Labor has moved a long way since Sarah Cleghorn wrote:

The golf links lie so near the millThat almost every dayThe laboring children can look outAnd see the men at play.16

The labor movement has taken this country beyond the bread-and-butter stage, though its original purpose was to protect workers and their families from the pangs of hunger.

Jesus said, “Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be required.” Because labor has more today than it has ever had before, it has more responsibility than …