The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-28
LABOR DAY AND LEADERS.

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One Hundred Thousand to be in Line
in New York on Sept. 8.
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New York, Aug. 2T.-Labor day will be
an event of extraordinary interest this
year, as II will be made the occasion of
peaceful but effective demonstrations
throughout the length and breadth OF the
land. 1t falls on Sept. 5, and the prepare
tions i'll New York aud Brooklyn indicate
| that in these two cities alone fully 100, 900
workers will be In line.
In the past few years the great New York
| parades have always been held under the
auspices OF two separate labor organizations,
| aud each has invariably managed to make
a magnificent showing. This year the CEN
trial labor bodies of New York are united
and the new Central Labor Union has per
fected arrangements not alone for a man.
moth parade, but for mass demonstration
which will eclipse Ia interest any past event
| of a like nature.
had a talk with President Gompers OF
the American Federation of Labor a day or
| two ago, and he informed me that the mass
meetings would not be confined TO New
| York but that the best speakers In the land
would address great gatherings every where
and that the outpouring OF sympathy for
| TUG enDbytNaIldnb VINO are now lOOked OUT
would be as extensive as the land and as
deepseated as are the feelings OF tho most
ardent friends Of these men.
But that will not be the only agitation
which will mark with interest the labor
day of 1892. The S-hour agitation will not
be lost sight Of The work of the past in
| this direction has been so effective that by
1895 labor leaders tell me that no state will
be without its S-hour law. AT present such
laws exists in Alabama, California, Con
necticup, idaho, Illinois, Missouri, New
Mexico. New York. Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. The federal law
covering government departments must be
| added to this list.
1.-The agitation for Labor day." said a
prominent leader to me some time ago, chad
It's real beginning Ia the seat of the Penn
| sylvania troubles, and from that center 1t
| extended until to-day the first Monday in
| September is legal holiday In seventeen
states and local holiday in every city of
note in the country. The states now OIL
forcing a Labor day law are Colorado. Com
nectieus, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Maine, Massachusetts,, Montana, Nebraska,
| New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
| Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and
| Washington. But. perhaps. the most nota-
BILE demonstration last year was that in
| Memphis, 80 you SEQ Tennessee is ripe for
| the enactment OF a like law and no state
| will be out Of the column in 1895"
at Is day. said another leader 10 me,
con which we make the nation realize how
| great Its army of workers really is. and as
our demands are always reasonable and our
agitations always for an end, which inclinss
to tue amelioration of the laborer's condi-
| ton, to the improvement Of the surround
| inRs and of his means of making life more
| endurable and happier, We have the ear of
| the nation and are gradually securing to
our side the voices Of its best men. need
| only refer to the speech recently delivered
in congress by Senator Palmer to show you
how conditions have changed and how by
constant and honest agitation we have
reached great end recognition"
| There WILDE number OF interesting feat
ures In the New York parades, which will
mark them as notable national events. One
will be the presence Of women workers In
the line of parade. Mrs. Josephine Bremen,
| New Y FORK state factory inspector, tolls
me that the cIoakmakers will have several
hundred women in line and shat the Lady
Gotham Association of Laundry Workers
will be in the parade over 1000 strong.
have secured number Of interesting
statistics from Carroll ID. Wright, the COM
| missioner of the FEEDER al labor bureau, all of
| which will be Of interest in view Of the APP
preaching holiday.
| New York had its first strike in 1903. 1t
was strike Of sailors for higher wages, and
though unsuccessful. was followed year
| later by more elective strike, In which
some demands we're conceded. In 1906 the
| laborers Of this country began their first at
tempt at organization, aud the tallors of
| New York are to be honored for the first
! effort in this direction.
In 1919 the matters organized, and in 1926
| the ship workers associated themselves into
what was practically trades union. In
1928 the workingmen of the state felt strong
| enough to put a ticket into tho field, bus It
| T0liQ1 n a valu small thu
organizations at that time we're not working
| in perfect harmony. In 1929 Ebsnezer
| Ford was elected to the legislature on
workingman's ticket, but this success was
not followed up by any concerted attempt TO
| increase the power of the laboring classes in
the legislative bodies of the state. In 1882
the great lO-hour strikes began, all of
/ which were unsuccessful. But the atten-
| Of the nation had been attracted to the
| agitation, and in 1910 President Van Buren,
signed 10-hour labor law. This
marks an epoch in the history of labor or
ganization and of labor agitations, and be-
tween 1850 and 1860 national and interna-
tional organizations were formed, which
are of interest only as they became the ba-
| sis OF the great labor bodies OF to-day. In
| 1854 the CiRarmakers' International Asso-
citation was formed and this exists to-day,
| perhaps the strongest TRADE organization IN
the United States, il not In the world, and
all due TO the wonderful work of Adolph
Strasser its president for fourteen years,
and one Of the great men in the agitation
for Labor day. In 1869 the Knights OF
| Labor were organized and began a remark
| ably successful career in the way Of CO
| menting labor interests. In 1884 congress
created the labor bureau, and Ia 1856 the
| American Federation OF Labor was formed.
| The success OF the latter organization is due
largely to its remarkable executive, Samuel
| Gompers.
1.-THE great organizations" said Editor
John Nolan, one Of the best labor writer's
in New York city, TO me, always bring
out great leaders. In my opinion there are
to-day no greater organizers in the world
than Terence V. Powderly, Of the knights
| OF Labor Samuel Gompers OF the American
Federation of Labor; Chairman Weihe OF
the Amalgamated Association Of Iron and
Steel Workers, and Chief Arthur,
OF tho great organization Of loco
motive engineers these men have always
oounseled for peaceful means and methods,
and the end, 40 far as ~ has boon reached
| has crowned their work with success. No
| great labor movement. In which these men
/ are Interested, fails 70 attract public at
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