Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-09-02
All Glasses Have Come to Re-
spect the Day and It's
Observance.
Central Labor Union Has In
vited Prominent Men
to Speak.
UNIONS HAVE CAUSE FOR REJOICING

Next Monday, Labor Day, now gener-
ally observed in this country, the toilers
will have their annual outing. The Cen
trail Labor Union will vary the montonous
street parade and garden picnic by an
excursion to Fern Grove, where the day
will be spent with more pleasant sur
roundngs and the comfort of shady
groves, in dancing, games, oratory and
recreation for the workmen and their
families.
The United Trades and Labor Assembly
will hold their first picnic at Phoenix
Hill.
But all will observe the holiday. Mer-
chants and employers have come to re-
spect the day, and enter heartily into its
observance as an evidence of apprecia-
ton of the workmen and their cause,
which is being more fully understood
and the benefits of their associations
manifested, not only in elevating the
status improving the condition and adj
vancing the interests of labor, but con-
tributing to the peace aud welfare OF the
community as we'll.
Organized labor is no longer regarded
as menace to order, property or EN-
ployer, but is proving a boon to this
country as the preserver of order and the
barrier to the anarchistic theories which
threaten property and employer. Dur
ing the period of depression of the past
seven years few besides themselves know
what the workmen have suffered, but they
have borne it patiently and peacefully,
making concessions and submitting even
TO Injustice rather than resort to disor-
der; accepting less pay and longer hours;
part time, meager earnings, entailing
self-denial to themselves and families
all because their organizations, after
careful investigation, assured them that
business conditions prevented employers
from doing better. In many cases in
volving millions of capital and thousands
) of workmen, agreements were entered
into, and to the credit of both employer
and employee they have been generally
faithfully observed, insuring peaceful
confidence and interest, the result of
r which has been manifested throughout
the country the present year.
. With a general resumption of trade,
slowly, but steadily, labor after years of
depression has not been hasty or un-
reasonable in seeking a betterment, but
has pursued quiet and orderly course,
and where met in like spirit by employ
ers matters have been speedily and
amicably adjusted. So quietly has this
been done throughout the country that it
is hardly credible to the casual observer
that more than a million additional
laborers have been employed in the past
few mouths and wages generally and
: universally advanced And this without
: serious disturbance in any of the great
:, manufacturing industries, railways, trans
:, portution or mines-except, as in the
case of the Brooklyn and Cleveland street
;, railways and the Illinois miners where
:, the employers by refusing to recognize
= that labor has any rights and declining
!, every offer of conciliatory settleme nt,
:, left no alternative but strike, and, by
defying the law, brought about disorder
and bloodshed. For this organized labor
:, is not responsible, since it was ignored,
! its pleas spurned, its very life sought to
be crushed out.
;, Organized labor has proven that it
:, alone can teach the workman his rights,
:, how to protect them, recognize the EN-
/, ployer's interests, seek justice by peace
full methods, and control and restrain
labor to observe the law more effectively
az than by force. Labor has enjoyed a
20 peaceful year, is beginning to reap pros
. perity, with the future brighter, and has
" cause for rejoicing.