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Show Every Part of United j States Enthusiastically 1 I Celebrating. I CABLEGRAM" TROOPS j Gompers Sends Message if " From Abroad to j I People. WASHINGTON1. SepL 2. Labor Day was observed today throughout tho United States. President Wilson, in a Labor Day message, laid great stress on the part that labor had in the winning win-ning of the war, saying in part: "Every tool in every essential Industry In-dustry is a weapon and a weapon wielded for the same purpose that an army rille is wielded." Director-General McAdoo issued an order that railroad employes be permitted per-mitted to participate in celebration of the day where essential operations would not be hampered, H Director-General Schwab of th- M Emergency Fleet corporation. In a fl cablegram to the American troops in H France, gave those forces assurances I that everything possible was beln M done by that industry. President Gompers of the Amorican I Federation of Labor, new abroad, in a H message to the American people, H pledged the fullest support of organiz- H cd labor to the cause of the republic JjS Largest Parade in Chicago's History. (fl j CHICAGO. SepL 2. The largest pa- jfl I rade in the local history of 'Labor Day M marched through the streets today H headed by the Great Lakes naval H training school band of -100. The open- m J ing of the government's war exposi- w tion was a feature of the celebration. i W !i ......ui ii.ou;ic .oiiiiiuii;u unit -uv." mgi ; nfJO men were in line: Each flag in the H parade had a guard of honor of sol- M diors or. sailors given furloughs in M order to march with their unions. m Win tho War For Freedom. VX, NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Labor's armj . fflf nearly 150,000 strong, tramped the H streets of Now York today with a slo- M gan that was echoed by the thousands jjrai of spectators "Win the war for free- M dom." The largest of three parades in Sjj 1 the greater city was in Manhattan M whore 75,000 union men and women W ; passed In review before William B. M Wilson, secretary of the department o Ifll labor, Governor Whitman, Mayor Hy- Hi lan and other ofiiciafs. in United States soldiers and sailors ffl .stationed in this vicinity acted as an ffl ' escort for tho marchers while ' army ffl aviators hovered over the procession Wo and dropped "win the war," leaflets ffi from the clouds. m ' After the parades, loyalty meetings- i SI were hold and prominent speakers cm- ffl phasized the importance of labor's war M efforts, v M "Win tho war for freedom" is the- ffl keynote for a Labor day symposium. j of "Greotings to the American people-" M written by Samuel Gonipcrs and other M labor lenders and issued tonight by wJ I the American Alliance for Labor and fm I Democracy as a pledge of "organized. I H IK labor's 100 per cent support of tho mh cause of the Republic." JjJ " "Win tho war for freedom' is In- Wtl scribed upon the banners of America's jgi workers today in every city and ham-. fit let," wrote the president of the Amer- jjjM ican Federation of Labor. "It is tho messago that will be spoken from jj ji every platform. It is the song of every Hjjjjj hoart. It is a war for freedom because r only through victory can there bt freedom." i JuS |