| Show SAYS DAY HAD NO FOUNDER terence V powderly tell tells of the be ginning of labors period of celebration it has han been stated at various times that labor day had this or that man for its father said mr air terence V powderly when asked concerning thie this occasion of mor newous birth but ahe e day had no cathor fatt nr or rather he corrected with a smile it had many fa fr thora and I 1 think I 1 should kaow having bee been present at the birth labor day as we know it today was a growth born from the perception of many men at the same time of the need of such a day of such rooi emente li it la is always hard to fix an exact moment when they spring into being when from a vague idea they become the practical thing but of labor day it can cen be said with certainly that it was born in new york city 5 1882 at that time the knights of labor of which I 1 was grand master workman were holding their annual convention in that city 7 he labor unions of new york determined to give a demonstration in our honor and ho on the afternoon of the day mentioned the paraded to the number of several thousand so eagerly had the idea been grasped by the labor folk of new now york that the whole day dair was practically given over to labor just as the fourte tl of july la is given over to 0 o the consideration of our national independence pen dence we 10 deep in deliberations on the t dar I 1 well ria rora ember member for the caige of labor before that time an in fani fany tn n swaddling clothes was begin sing to walk erect and its inarticulate cry of the tile past was forming itself into sentences for the world to listen therefore when we were in formed that the laboring people of now york bad had made the day a virtual holiday and would parade in our honor we adjourned to review the procession salon from the stand erect d la in union square upon that platform were among others hugh F t robert price a coal miner of Penn sylvani and member of the general executive board of the tile knights of labor and general jeneral worthy foreman It ichard griffith a veteran in the me cause |
