Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-11
WILL CEL,EBR A TE
Labor Unions Will Arrange for
Labor Day.
WILL BE A MAGNIFICENT AFFAIR

Monday, September 2, Will Be Labor
Holiday in. Ottumwa Child Labor
g, and its EvIs-Tne Counterfeit Label
Other Laobr Notes.
IFrom Wednesdays Daily.1
THE matter published in this col
umn is furnished by the officers of the
Federation of Labor.
At the next meeting of the Trades
ard Labor assembly which will occur
on Wednesday evening, July II, the
committee on Labor Day will be ap-
pointed for the purpose of arranging
for the parade, grounds and speakers
for the day. From reports of the diff
ferent unions in the city on referen-
DUN vote it is gratifying to note that
all those reporting favor holding a
celebration and large demonstration
on Labor Day. Monday September 2.
The program that is now talked of is
to include large parade in the morn
ing with speaking and athletic sports
jn the afternoon, concluding with an
illuminated parade in the evening and
also grand ball.
The merchants and manufacturers
of the city will be invit-
ed to prepare floats represent
ing their industries and if
the Assemply's idea OF a Labor Day
fcelebl alton is carried out. it will be
among the greatest ever held in the
state. Between now and September 2
no stone VIII be left unturned to make
this a grand aud gala day.
CounterTeitine the Union Label.
In desperate effort to avoid being
obliged 20 handle union label goods, it
has been stated to union men that the
union label of the garment workers
can be purchased in bulk and attached
to any garment by any merchant who
purchases them Lest some one might
be deceived by such a statement it is
well here to call attention to the fact
that such q thing can not be done;
and notify all that labels detached
from clothing or bought in bulk are
counterfeit, or else We're stolen from
the label secretary in some garment
manufacturing house in this country.
At any rate no union man or sylnpa-
thiZer should purchase garments which
a merchant agrees to so label 1t is
we'll to call to mind that under the sys-
TEN which is in vogue by the United
Garment Workers of America any Ia
bel that is issued can be traced back
to the factory to which it was issued
and if it is found out that the said
factory has misused the label in any
way or if it has been stolen from it the
guilty parties will have to suffer, as
{ there is a law in almost every stat
giving absolute protection to the diff
ferent union labels, Iowa has one OF
the strongest laws among the many
that have been enacted. The motto
to all men and sympathizers should
be adhere to the principle and in
structions and purchase no garment
that has not the union label sewed up
on it."
Child Labor.
If many man who walks the streets
in idleness seeking employment would
not attribute this enforced condition SO
much to the labor saving machinery
as to the employment of children in
tn industries he would be nearer right
If every child who is working in the
factories today was placed in the
schools and under compulsory educa-
ton law compelled to prepare him
self for better citizenship it would
compel those whose love for money is
so great that it makes them forget the
human conditions, to employ men, at
mems wages, instead of sucking the
life blood out of children, who should
be in school. All of these things or.
ganized labor stands for and all OF
these things it hopes at obtain.
Labor and the Market.
The life of the labor movement, like
that of men and nations. has been one
of riableness-success and failure
victory and defeat have alternated
with a degree of regularity only inter.
rupted by exceptional industrial peri
DDS, extreme in their character. Or.
ganiZation has flourished time after
time; has bloomed as the rose, so to
speak, only to wither and decay when
the biting frosts of industrial depres-
sion have smitten the source of reYe-
nlle and dampened the ardor of the
workers.
A scrutinizing retrospective glance
reveals the fact that labor unions have
Invariably prospered during the peri
DDS of a rising market and as certain
ly declined with the fall thereof. Time
and again have they grown powerful
in strength only to retrograde back to
a state of almost helpless dependence
Repeatedly have the myriad workers,
fired with enthusiasm inspired by
leaders, flocked together in innumer-