Folia Theologica 11. (2000)
Eugene Csocsan de Váralja: The Just Income Distribution
THE JUST INCOME DISTRIBUTION 129 Quadragesimo anno, that the wages should be adapted to the increasing burdens as the family enlarges.56 57 Later in life it is again the same ius utendi which demands the right to work and just wages. According to the Divini Redemptoris the state “must guarantee opportunities for work especially for the breadwinners and for the young” and “we have not satisfied the duties of social justice, until the wage can not support the worker and his family.”58 Similarly it follows from the same ius utendi, that “we have not satisfied the duties of social justice until we have made provisions for those who become old, ill or out of work”59 as declared by the same encyclical Divini Redeptoris. In addition the Quadragesimo anno stated, that the “right proportion is also important between the wages and those prices, which are closely connected with them, for which the various agricultural and industrial goods can be bought.”60 It was recorded in 1942, that the Beveridge plan, which scheduled to cover virtually all these needs in Great Britain, required 11 % of the country's national income.61 56 Pessimus vero est abusus et omni conatu auferendus, quod matres familias ob patris salarii tenuitatem extra domesticos parietes quaestosam artem exercere coguntur, curis officiisque peculiaribus ac praesertim infantium institutione neglectis. Omni igitur ope enitendum est, ut mercedem patresfamilias percipant sat amplam, quae communibus domesticis necessitatibus convenienter subveniat. Quadragesimo anno, 445 1931 (a. XXIII), page 200. 57 In hoc praeterea eorum qui publice imperant versari curas praecipuas oportet, ut illa civibus suis vitae adiumenta parent, quibus si iidem careant, rem ipsam publicam quantumvis recte compositam, concidere pronum est, utque maxime patribus familias ac iuvenibus opera suppeditent. Divini Redemptoris, 445 1937 (a. XXIX) page 103. 58 Neque satis sociali iustitiae factum erit, nisi opifices et sibimet ipsis et familiae cuiusque suae victum tuta ratione ex accepta, rei consentanea, mércédé praebere poterunt. Divini Redemptoris, 445 1937, (a.XXIX) page 92. 59 (Neque satis sociali iustitiae factum erit) ......nisi denique opportunum erit in eorum commodum inita consilia quibus iidem, per publica vel privata cautionis instituta, suae ipsorum senectuti, infirmitati operisque vactioni consulere queant. Divini Redemptoris, on the just quoted page 92. 60 Apposite etiam ad rem facit recta inter salaria proportio: quacum arcte cohaeret recta proportio pretiorum, quibus illa veneunt, quae a diversis artibus progignuntur, qualia habentur agricultura, ars industrialis, alia. Quadregesimo anno, 445 1931, (a. XXIII) page 202 61 Nachrichten für Aussen-Handel, 4th December 1942.
