Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-03 | Page 4 | Labor Day Seen as Mark of Encouraging Period

Labor Day Seen a as Mark I 1 l Of Encouraging Period I By NEA NEA- Service NEW YORK Sept 3 Although 3 millions million of oC men are are out of work and andare andare andare are facing the threat of or a lean and difficult winter Labor L day this year will vilI mark one of or the most ost encouraging In ing periods In the history J of or organized organized organ organ- labor That Tha is the belief of or Robert F. F Wa Wagner Wagner Wag Wag- ner nero Democratic senator from New NewYork NewYork York who for four years ears has been battling for social legislation to help both bolh the employed and the jobless The relief relic bill passed by bythe bythe bythe the last con congress bears his name and the stamp of or his convictions as a friend of labor As the forces of ot Republicans and Democrats ar are being mobilized for the drive that will place either Herbert Hoover or Franklin D. D Roosevelt inthe in inthe inthe the White House this janitors janitor's son sort who fought his wa way to national prominence nence stands out as a pivotal jh ligure ure On September 20 he faces the primary which will decide whether New York will give him the chance to return to the senate And the New York election elec tion will of course greatly aC affect the Roosevelt C cause Wagner is elated because so many of the ideas he had sponsored arc are being being be be- ing accepted When little lIlUe more than 8 years old oldS old S S he came camo camp t to New York fr from German with his parents Poor immigrant 11 settled the S they on n east cast eid wh where they lived in m a ba basement and tb the i n- n nI i o t I lor Wagner worked as ac a ra janitor Young Robert picked up a English fought with the janitors janItor janitor next door went Vent to school and sold SOn papers paper In his spare time An older brother got cot a job as a cool cook In a cl club s sand and soon foon Robert was Wag employed j the theas c j as a A good student he eventually grad trait 4 from grammar school th then t high school and entered City colIeT There he worked 11 his is pore way through bV by tutoring and doing odd Jobs d pite the thc frequent urging of his father rather to quit college ann and go to work l But he didn't quit He Heas graduated graduate J as ns valedictorian of hk hl cla claa and su he finished at t New y Yo j I ILaw Law school and was admitted to fo ba bar ban Entering politics as a Ui the a campaign campaign he was soon elected tn to the assembly then to the state senate and finally lieutenant governor H vl declined a R nomination for governor His greatest ambition was rc rca ed when he was appointed to the stat tat supreme court He ran for th the then s senate en le to help Al Smith then runnIng for governor Beating Bealing the popular Jj Jim my Wadsworth established him