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Show Labor Day ON this day each year America honors labor, and it does ko with special sincerity because America is a community of work. There in no leisure class worth speaking of in this country, which is worth thinking of whenever we consider our country's problems. For while workers will disagree on a good many things may find many interests clashing,' may . be often struggling against each other, in one way or another, there b something that is deeper than all these differences, the common tie of work, the fact that ve are ail on the job, the big job which we call America. TV"V EVER since the first Labor Day was celebrated has I this truth come home to us as it does today. Jf in time of peace we divide and disagree on many things, ard often forget that we are all laborers on the big job, today we must remember that inspiring truth and draw closer in the love of America and a new consciousness of what America means to us and what we mean to one another the director of vast financial finan-cial forces and the man at the lathe or the throttle, the captain of industry, and the man or woman who sells its products across the counter, the judge on the bench, the farmer at the plow, the doctor in the sick room, the laborer on the railroad right of way, the woman in the nursery, the kitchen, the school, the shop, or the office. LABOR Day this year is a day to be long remembered, a I day of inspiration, a day of clasped hands and uplifted hearts, a day of solemn union, of unwavering resolution, of sacrifice, and yet of confident hope and inspiring purpose. ' America is at war for a world which will be freer, safer, and happier hap-pier for all men. t 1' - |