| Show LESSON OF LA OR DAY an annual holiday that Is more than just a play time the first monday M ad ay in september an annual reminder bathe of the fact that one one of the holidays which are now practically atton atlon wide Is so nten and so vital that it Is growing visibly and rapidly in prestige and usefulness labor day was an experiment so on recently that men still young remember its beginnings now it Is one of tho the firmly established and much valued rest and recreation days of the year but the day la is more than that it la Is a holiday which Is not a mere play day nor la Is it only a celebration of some great event of the past it looks looka ahead quite as much as it looks backward it Is filled with the spirit of advancing confident buoyant life it laeben laeven a militant day with a strong suggestion of willingness and WIRY ability to battle for rights denied or prin chiples assailed labor day Is broad enough in its naipe kaipe and in tho the break which it makes jn in the regular grind of trade and industry and in all of the productive activities of the country to cover all kinds 0 of f work but it Is the especial property of manual labor and ana more particularly of manual labor so organized so awake and so strong that it can speak as a vast body of men trained to art act together and work for the same ends enda that Is to say tho the annual hol holiday ild ay of labor la is taken as a right not as a gift it is IB a demonstration of strength ready for u use so not a day of recreation and tun fun without a serious thought but the stronger labor becomes the less danger there Is of needless and destructive labor wars with power cornea comes responsibility and the more there Is that has been won the more there la is also to hazard in strife the labor organizations which are most thoroughly developed develop ed and united are ara the ones onea which got get along best with employers and are most moat reasonable and businesslike in the negotiations which they carry barry on the strong and successful do not lightly risk the fruits of their past triumphs and the same qualities that made them succeed keep steep them sate safe and sound labor day Is filled with such lessons it Is stimulating thought com polling and instructive as a holiday and there are few days daya in the year which do more to make american give lit attention ito to the large problems ot of their country and the times |
