And that's saying somethin'.
(Spellman was a real shit.)
In 1949, when gravediggers at Calvary Cemetery in Queens went on strike for a pay raise, Spellman accused them of being Communists and recruited seminarians of the Archdiocese from St. Joseph's Seminary as strikebreakers.[28] He described the actions of the gravediggers, who belonged to the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America, as "an unjustified and immoral strike against the innocent dead and their bereaved families, against their religion and human decency."[28] The strike was supported by the Catholic activist Dorothy Day and the author Ernest Hemingway, who wrote a scathing letter about it to Spellman.[13]
Communism
Spellman once said "a true American can neither be a Communist nor a Communist condoner"[35] and "the first loyalty of every American is vigilantly to weed out and counteract Communism and convert American Communists to Americanism".[35]
Spellman defended Senator Joseph McCarthy's 1953 investigations of alleged Communist subversives in the federal government. He said in 1954 that McCarthy had "told us about the Communists and about Communist methods" and that he was "not only against communism—but ... against the methods of the Communists".[36]
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