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Show I LABOR DAY IS I WELLOBSERVED H MARCHING COLUMNS' AND AD' 4 . DRESSES FEATURE U8UAL M ANNUAL CELEBRATION H Speeches of Union Chiefs Generally H Stress Purposes of Fighting for H Policies; Many Parades 1 Are Held H Chicago Tho nation obsorvod Le H Lor day Monday by a goneal suspon. H nlon of business throughout the land H and wltli gatherings of union workers H Jn Tiirlous cltloa. Fears of untoward H demonstrations proved unfounded, H Tlie sottloincnt of tho hard coal H trlko hard upon tho heels of adjust H inonta In tho bituminous fields and H the tcxtllo Industry In Now England, H together with tho continuing dcroaso H in unemployment In nil soctlono, was H Qinlled ly spoukors as promising a H quick stabilization of tho industrial H situation and an early rovival of busi- H ness generally. Bocont wage lncrons- H ea announced for tho stoel Industry H fwerc also to bo regarded as tho oafo H (passing by tho nation of a critical B period of industrial readjustment H spoakors doclared. H Socrctnry of Labor Davis dollverod H an address at iMoosokcart, 111., on tho H lcoynoto of tho nocessty of finding H, somo means to oottlo industrial dls. H , putcn, "without rccourso to the f utllo Hi arbitrament of forco" H' IPoatmnstor Gcnoral Work nddrcssed j tho United National Association of H! Post Offlco Clerks at Buffalo. Frost Hl dont Bamuel Gompors of Uio Amorl- H'' can Federation of Labor and John L, (Lewis, president of the United MIno M Workers, woro scheduled to speak at H n mooting of tho Cntral Labor union ' of rhllndolphia. M Parados were tho principal foaturo H of local programs In many cities. In H many eastern communities, howovor, M lncleinont woathcr lntcrforrod wiUi H outdoor fostivitlos. In Chicago no m arrnngomentn had boon made for the M customary, parnde, although mootings H woro hold by various organizations. |