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Show RECOGNITION OF LABOR'S RIGHTS Holiday Carries to All Its Message of Hope and Freedom. These ringing words formed the keynote key-note of Samuel Gompers' Labor day message of 1924: Labor day Is the one holiday In all the year dedicated to humanity. It la a day set apart for the consideration of human problems and for rejoicing at progress made toward that better day for which we strive constantly. Labor day Is a day on which the leadership of the trade union move- : . J JZ. - SAMUEL GOMPERS ment in the fight for human betterment better-ment Is universally acknowledged and acclaimed. There could be no Labor day without with-out Labor. There could be no Labor day without Organized Labor. Those who do not belong to the Labor movement may here and there make speeches on Labor day. Usually their speeches are unnecessary; and where they are helpful they are filled with a recounting of the services rendered rend-ered by the Trade Union movement. Labor Organized Labor the Labor La-bor movement that is what makes Labor day possible; that Is what makes It real. Labor day was set apart as a holiday holi-day because Organized Labor demanded demand-ed It. It was a recognition of Labor's right to celebrate Its victories and to carry to all of the people Its great message of hope and freedom. On this Labor day talk Labor 1 Do not anywhere permit Labor day to be anything but Labor day. Talk Labor, preach the great message of Labor, carry forward the message of human freedom and human aspiration as a Labor message. Welcome the friends of Labor In all gatherings. Welcome these friends when they come with their support and their encouragement. But see that everywhere the day Is observed as Labor La-bor day. The Labor movement in America la a movement of wage earners, for wage earners, conducted by wage earners. It Is a movement primarily for the protection and advancement of the rights and interests of the wage earn-, ers through trade union organization. Let us observe Labor day in the spirit of the Labor movement. Let us blazon the message of trade union-Ism union-Ism across the horizon. Let us give of Its Inspiration to those who are oppressed, op-pressed, who are without hope and whose souls are hungering. Let us unfurl its banners and sing ItB songs. Labor day is for Labor and Labor Js striving to enlarge the life of the great masses of our people. Labor day Is for Labor and Labor fights the fight for all who are heavy laden. Upward and onward, this Labor day, for humanity, for the right, for justice, jus-tice, for freedom and democracy, In the name of Labor, through our great , Trade Union movement I . F it must be so that our women ' toil like men, help us still to reverence in them the mothers ' of the future. But make us deter- mined to shield them from unequal , burdens, that the women of our ' nation be not drained of strength , i and hope for the enrichment of a ' J few, lest our homes grow poor in i the wifely sweetness and motherly j love which have been the saving strength and glory of our country. i To such as yearn for the love ' and sovereign freedom of their own home, grant in due time the ' ' fulfilment of their sweet desires. 1 By Mary, the beloved, who bore , the world's redemption in her , bosom; by the memory of our own r dear molliers who kissed our souls ', awake; by the little daughters who must soon go out into the i world which we are now fashioning fashion-ing for others, we beseech thee ' that we may deal aright by all ! women. "Prayers of the Social ' A waJccnmg, " W alter Rauschenbusch ! |