| Show LABOR DAY DAYT T ABOR DAY U this is year presents an occasion J-J J LABOR when the nations nation's workers ma may not only parade and arni generally celebrate but it is s full of a larger meaning than ever in the history of the labor movement It is a day when fundamentals of Americanism may well be studied It is is a time for giving iving thought to constitutional guarantees and to rights privileges privileges and responsibilities established by law lawand lawand lawand and p precedent It is well to reflect that all of these taken together constitute our most sacred traditions and exist for the welfare of the tIle Americans within the confines of the republic We are arc all the heirs and beneficiaries beneficiaries ben ben- of the patriots who created this democracy in a time when life libert liberty and the pursuit of happiness were not the common lot lotof lotof lotof of humankind The greatest war in the history of civilization civilization civilization tion was fought to refute the mistaken notion of tyrants that might makes right Today we stand in ii the midst of warfare as grim if not as sanguinary It is a war to determine significant significant significant sig sig- sig- sig issues of peacetime When t the e hour of victory arrives it is to be hoped that upon the battlefield will lie prostrate and finished all enemies which have striven selfishly against the national well If such a victory is to be won toda today is a aday aday aday day of consecration It is a day for or a handclasp handclasp handclasp hand hand- clasp of cooperation between labor and capital It seems to be a day when we closely approach an ideal that has stood long before us and one worthy of a great nation In this broad land there should be no room for the strife and antagonisms which have stood too long as a al l barrier arrier in the path to world supremacy C This is a favored country It more nearly than any country in the world may be self seif dent and self If we but transpose the terms and emblazon upon our banners Right makes might we should press forward forward forward for for- ward to a victory that would establish the United States in the forefront of the nations Today labor stands with greater power than it has ever evet held in its year fifty-year program of activity Its strength and position in the thelast thelast thelast last six months have reached a point not attained attained at- at at at- tamed even eyen in its wartime gains Capital in spite of the economic chaos of the past three years is potentially as mighty as ever N No such accumulation of wealth has ever eyer existed in this country as exists today Much of it itIs itis itis is Is inert but its power stands undiminished This da day then proffers a fit occasion for forS or S making a reality of what President Roosevelt has has fitly i ly termed a truce on selfishness It ItIs Itis Itis is Is a time to make living truth of the admonition admonition admonition tion that in union there is strength The responsibility and the obligation is universal On this thi Labor day every American in whatever whatever what what- e ever er field of labor lie he toils should dedicate himself to the common effort efort to achieve the destiny of the nation through peace cooperation cooperation cooperation tion and brotherhood |
