The rich exist at the poor's expense

From Manuel Mira in Spain Huesca St. Ambrose had sided with the poor long before Karl Marx, Bishop Javier Oses of Huesca told a Spanish industrialist who had described him as a Marxist. The industrialist, Senor Juan Huarte, is the brother of the recently kidnapped builder Senor Felipe Iluarte, who was released by a Basque terrorist organisation after his firm gave in to demands by construction workers for better working conditions.
Senor Juan Huarte accused Bishop Oses a friend of' the Huarte family of being a Marxist after a lecture the bishop gave at Tudela in which he had said: "If there are rich people, it is because there are poor. and, sad to say, the rich exist at the expense of the poor."
In an open letter run by most daily papers in Spain, he said the bishop had embarked on -Marxist deviations" and was quoting from Das Kapital by Karl Marx. He added: "In addition, you are rich yourself corn pared with the rest of the people in the diocese."
Progressive
Bishop Oses, 45, generally considered a progressive he is a member of the Spanish Bishops' Conference committee on social action replied in another open letter by quoting from St. Am brose, the fourth-century Bishop of Milan and a Doctor of the Church: "What you give to the poor was not part of your wealth, it belonged to them; for what God has assigned for the use of all. you took. What is on earth was given to all. not to the rich only."
Bishop Oses added: "From Pope Leo X111 to Pope Paul VI we read and hear the same pronouncement. Marx could have said it too. I grant that my personal life does not give witness to a Church of the poor, but I am still hound to preach its social doctrine."
Senor Felipe Huarte was set free by E.T.A. a movement
seeking political and cultural autonomy for the Basque people in Spain after the 'l'ornifasa firm. one of Huarte's subsidiaries, agreed to increase wages to its 145 workers by $50 (over £20) a month and to provide holiday, disability and sickness benefits. Tornifasa had dismissed nearly 100 workers in November after demands for better conditions.
Ransom
The Huartes paid about £330,000 in ransom, which was finally turned over to the striking families.
Now the management sector within Spain's trade union movement a government controlled organisation which includes technicians, management and workers is pressuring the leadership to nullify the TornifasaETA agreement and to bring the grievances to an "official arbitration."
That process has consistently been rejected by workers as adverse to their claims.
Senor Emilio Romero, editor of the union's daily paper, is in hot water for saying that the Huarte enterprises should have granted the benefits before they had been forced to do so by the Basque terrorists. Management representatives have asked for his resignation.
The kidnapping of Felipe in January was earlier called "a violation of Christian coexistence" by Archbishop Jose Mendez Asensio of Pamplona, who sought to mediate in the case.