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Show CHURCHES ARE TO OBSERVE TOMORROW AS LABOR SUNDAY New York, Sept 3. Tomorrow will bo observed in tho churches throughout through-out the United States as Labor Sun-dny. Sun-dny. The ministerial associations In C."5 cities, representing over 12 Pro- I testaDt church organizations, at tho I request of the social service eommls- 1 eion of the federal council of the I Churches of Christ In America, have urged their members to devote tho day to sermons on some, phase of the labor question. At many of the sor-ices sor-ices various labor organizations will attend in a body by Invitation. Co operating In this movement, Sam-uel Sam-uel Gornpers. president of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, has sent letters let-ters to the COO central labor bodies of ! America, requesting them to appoint committees to co-operate with the clergy. At the lapt convention of the American Federation of Labor, a resolution reso-lution was adopted assigning the Sun day preceding the first Monday in September Sep-tember to bo set apart as a day for the discussion of labor questions, j To tho Episcopal churches of New York the bishop has sent a request that the general subject for tomorrow's tomor-row's sermons be "One Dav's Rest in Seven " |