The Coal Owners and the Clergy (1946)

From the July 1946 issue of the Socialist Standard

The use the propertied class make of Religion, to keep the workers content with their servitude is an old story. An interesting disclosure on the relationship of the coal owners and the Church was made by the Archdeacon of Derby when he forecast that nationalisation of the mines would adversely affect the incomes of the Clergy in the Derby Diocese. He said

"The coal and iron companies have shown a very generous appreciation of the spiritual needs of their workpeople, and in many cases have paid a large part of the stipend of the incumbent in whose parish their works were situated.” 

(Derby Evening Telegraph, 7/5/46.)