Show LABOR FACING SOLEMN DUTY by MATTHEW vice president american federation of labor again labor day comes to us and all too many of us will go out to have a good time and let it go at that the good time should be had bad that Is one on of the purposes of a holiday but in addition we liast aast think of serious problems over and above all things we have the duty to see that trade unionism Is roada made the instrument by which a fuller measure of democracy Is brought into our industrial life without freedom la in va 1 industry there is no complete freedom without democratic measures there Is no guarantee of freedom no means m eans tor for making it effective and viewing the abuses of great corporate power we know that unless we have democratic cures for the evils we shall have to submit to the attempted cures of politicians working more or less in ignorance and creating likewise a bureaucracy which we fear but may have to tolerate america is great because of its freedom its justice its democratic institutions trade unionism can create an eien een greater america it has been said that we standon the verge of the abolition of poverty that is true only if we properly use our national natural and manufactured wealth but it can be made mad true let us also add that we stand on the verge of a greater fuller and nobler freedom and then let us make both of these visions come true let us have done with little things it is the age of great things I 1 |