Show UPLIFT THE fuller purer and happier lives for toilers boilers Toi lers through the strength of organization iza tion c h HE climax of the spec spectacular taca la Is the parade the culmination ot of the anniversary niver sary or celebration Is tho the long train of marchers barchers mar chers rejoicing over victories tho the most int presslie press lve tribute to a man Is the march with him to his tomb labor has victories to celebrate gains to rejoice over tribute to pay the work of the tha labor movement has leen been mainly along three lines larlu encina bueing of public opinion legislative effort foit cf and the direct improvement of the labor conditions of 0 its members this last line ot of work has absorbed most of 0 its time and energy and its it success has peen been gratifying though no not so BO great as it might have been bad its eff efforts 0 ts been directed against the cables causes instead irstead of the effects writes henry sterling la in joe Ch chappies apples newsletter nearly every humane measure on any statute book in any land a the outcome of intense protracted struggle each was suggested first by la boring men and women generally in a labor union churches have pre pared men for another world but labor unions have sweetened life in this the press the politician the court the philanthropist have all worked in their own way for or the uplift of humanity the unions have taken millions of children from blighting toll and sent them to school and that la is the only effectual means of uplift low wages and fear of idleness and want drive men to long hours of labor that exhaust them physically morally and spiritually again fear ot 0 losing a job induces a species of servility a submission to potty petty tyranny and exactions that Is wholly foreign to a man ly spirit ready prompt cheerful obedience to proper orders Is a virtue that becomes EL a man but he be whose necessities compel submission to in dignity and imposition is a pitiable ob act indeed vetter hours bours and labor conditions dit lons are the things essential for or a bett better r civilization the union makes no mistake when it demands them the tha unions have said that wages are too low to live properly the result la 18 in an increase of a million dollars a day d ay iy they said that tho the working day was too long that wo we lacked time tor for ed ii cation or recreation the hours of labor are being rapidly reduced not only for union men but tor for all men tho the conditions sanitary and otherwise under which humanity tolled al ways inhuman often indecent la hors bors prot ft has brought about some gome and promise of more laws to protect labor especially child and woman labor and to promote its welfare now fill volumes fifty years ngo ago a small pamphlet let would afford space for them all this year we have bave made provision for the caro care of every man injured at his work and tor for the support of 0 hla his family when we consider that there la is at least one worker killed in massachusetts chu at his labor every day and nearly two hundred injured we conceive that we have done a great work in hi ns assuring suring them against want these are some of the things which we have accomplished and it la Is fitting that we WB should set aside a day to celebrate victories rejoice over our gains and gather renewed strength and cheer tor future battles out flat all these are small email compared to one now becoming more and more apparent we are conquering public opinion awakening the tha conscience of the people to the justice of 0 our demand greater means more leisure aud aad better conditions ot of labor |