Show LESSON OF LABOR DAY an annual holiday that Is more than just a play time the first 1 monday in september brings an annual reminder of the fact that one of the holidays which are now practically nationwide nation wide la Is so new and so vital that it la is growing visibly and rapidly in prestige and usefulness labor day was an experiment ro ao recently that men still young remember its beginnings now it Is one ono of the firmly established and much valued rest and recreation days of the year hut it the be day Is more than talat it Is a holiday which Is not a mere play day nor la Is it only a celebration of 0 some great event of the past it looka looks ahead quite as much as it looks back ward it Is filled with the spirit spirl t ot of advancing confident buoyant life it Is even a InI militant lItant day with a strong suggestion of will willingness and ability to battle for rights denied or prin caples assailed later day Is broad enough in its name and in the break which it makes in the regular grind of trade and industry dust ry and in all of the productive activities of the country to cover all kinds of work but it ie is the especial property of 0 ma manual nual labor and more particularly of manual labor so organized so awake and so strong that it can speak as a vast body 0 of f men trained to act together and work for the same ends that Is to say the annual holiday of labor Is tak taken en as a right not aa as a gift it Is a demonstration of strength ready for use not a day of recreation a and ad fun without a serious thought dut the stronger labor becomes the tho less danger there ie Is of needless and destructive labor wars with power comes and the me more there Is that has been won the more there la is also to hazard in strife the labor organizations which are most developed and united are thoroughly along best with which get the on ones es employers rs and are most reasonable and buis businesslike Ineis in the negotiations which they carry on the strong and successful do not lightly risk the fruits of their past triumphs and the qualities that made them sue suc same 41 aeed keep t them hem safe and sound labor day dair la Is filled with euch such ls vs sons it ie is stimulating blought com corn pelting and instructive as a holiday and there ar are 9 few days la in the year which do more inore to make allric 1 ewt attention to the large problem problems give the times of their country and |