Father Dietz, the Catholic Church and the 1913 Michigan Copper Strike

Labor Historian Marc Karson has singled out “labor priest” Peter E. Dietz as one of the strongest proponents for the active implementation of the Catholic Church���s 1890’s labor encyclical Rerum Novarum in the daily practice of American Catholics. Biographer Sister Mary Harrita Fox pointed out that in his work, Dietz “was particularly concerned over the role of the church in the copper strike in Upper Michigan.” This “particular concern” should be noted since the 1913 strike was one of the only disputes where Dietz went out of his way to visit and become actively involved. Why the keen interest? This presentation will review the impetus for the huge effort which brought Peter E. Dietz to the Copper Country and solely to that dispute alone, the resulting visit and report that he made concerning the strike, the important role he believed this visit and stance in the Copper Strike had in the future of the Church���s relationship to the US labor movement. The presentation will look at both what Dietz thought would occur as a result of his 1913 trip to the Keweenaw and what actually happened in this pivotal pre-World War One era event. The paper will put Father Peter E. Dietz and the Catholic Church into the larger frame of how religion has been viewed within the history of the Strike.

Augsburg, Germany, 1740-1760 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Accurata recens delineata ichnographia celeberrimae liberae imperii civitatis ac Sueviae metropolis Augustae Vindelicorum = Neu verfertigt accurater Grund Riss der hochberühmten dess Heil. Röm. Reichs freyen u. dess schwäbischen Creisses Haupt Statt Augspurg, Ioh. Thomas Kraus, architectus et perspectivicus delineavit ; im Kupfer gestochen un verlegt von M. Seutter, I.R.K.M. geogr. It was published by Matthäus Seutter, between 1740 and 1760. Scale [ca. 1:4,500]. Covers Augsburg, Germany. Map in Latin and German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 4 coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes indexes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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The Offices of St. Wilfrid according to the use of the Church of Ripon : from a Psalter /

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