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Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, Francis J. Haas Papers, 1904-1953

Labor Priests: Progressive Politics and the Catholic Church, Francis J. Haas Papers, 1904-1953

The Francis J. Haas Collection documents Haas's lifelong dedication to the Catholic Church and workers' welfare. The collection includes materials from his family, his time as a seminary student in the early 1900s, and his role as an educator and cleric from the 1920s until his death in 1953. The materials focus most heavily, however, on his role as a public servant in New Deal agencies and as a labor arbitrator in the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes materials on Haas's positions in New Deal agencies, as a labor arbitrator, his role as chair of Fair Employment Practices Committee and his contributions to academia and religious studies at The Catholic University of America.