The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-11
SPECIAL LABOR
DAY SERVICES
Rev. Carver of Ogden Com
plies With Request of
Mr.. GOmperS.

Last evening there was held in the
First Presbyterian church a special Labor
day service, in accordance with the re-
quest of President Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, at which. after
musical program had been given. Rev.
carver. speaking upon the subject Of The
Debt Which the World Owes to the Tai
ent of the Worker" said. in part:
The worlds Generators have ever
Deei lnoSe VINO, seeing a better day have
p 9 WiinhS TO deny themselves and en-
uuIt Toll and struggle. that the blessings
OF that day might become a present real
lty. Of no class of the worlds great men
mas TINS been more true than of that
NUMBER OF tOllers who, realizing the i'm
perfection OF their present condition and
means, nave denied and struggled that
the life of their fellow workers might he
nited TO a higher plane of living. We
all know the stirring story of religious
and political history, but few know the
equally inspiring story of Industrial his
tory. The names of the heroes who
nave changed and uplifted the world in
a religious and a political way are house
hOid names, but those who have accom-
pushed Tor the race as much in an in
duStrlal sense are Well-nigh forgotten
This is prominently an age of inven-
uOn, manufacturing and commerce. and
all OF those rest upon the wonderful
achievement of the talent of the hand, for
IL is the inventor who has made the
commercial age of today possible And
who have been the inventors? They have
been the men of toll who have tasted of
the powers of the world to come. With
keen foresight they have dreamed of an
age better equipped with tools and ma
chinery and have brought their talent of
the hand into full use in the achievement
OF inventive success. Those inventors
have been the men of toll reared among
in hnf q
work they have entered with spirit
of self-denial and toll unrivalled in all
the world S history. We today are reap
ing with fun hand the rich harvest re-
sulting from the sacrifice and talent of
those who saw a better day in indus
trial things and work that that day might
come.
Development of Tools.
Take the fundamental matter of tools
they speak of a wealth of labor. There
is no history more tragic in its sacrifice
or more inspiring in its achievements than
the history of the development of the tool
today from the rude instrument of the
past. Names like Joseph Bramah the
carpenter of two centuries ago who first
the idea of a good lock and
then was compelled to invent tools needed
for its manufacture. Henry Maudslay. the
who during the hours stolen
from the time Of sleep, invented a side
lathe and the punching and ScreW-cutting
the power of steam was first being ap-
piled as worlds great energy, was com
PEELED 10 make practically all the larger
machines necessary for welding casting
and fitting large parts of machinery.
Look wherever you will and you discover
in the tools of today memorials of the
toilcrs of the past. When | enter a shop
il is the tools of the machinery which
Spea ktO me of the toll of the unremem-
bered great whose labor they record. Not
only have they made the world greater
but they have made il richer. 1t is
the worker and his talent of the hand
that gives to us our entire commercial
product The story of Howe, the inven-
tor of the sewing machine, his years of
poverty and struggle in the achievement,
his wife'S self-sacrificing toll, in a dngy
room in Boston. that bread might be pro
Vlded for herself and family during his
years of toll, during which the shuttle
was evolved and his success and his fU-
ture wealth and fame was achieved, is but
an example of the story of the rise of
almost every article in commerce TODAY.
We know that Goodyear, the workman
who, believing that rubber could be 80
vulcanized that it would be valuable for
use, was so impoverished dur
ing his years of investigation, that his
wife, repeatedly in tears, upbraided him
for not leaving his foolish plan and help
ing her in the support of the family. The
knitting machine. invented By Lee in Eng
and. cost him forty years of struggle
anu PtNtl y 0i'h StSt'AoAoii- % Sltiiplt an
object as nail cost Richard Foley thirty
six years to evolve a nail-Cutting ma
chine. which would make the manufaC-
lure of a nail cheap enough that ii might
meet universal use During this time so
persistent was his thought upon his OBJ
ect that he was considered hSlf-witted.
and he earned his bread as a strOlling
musician. he was called the half-witted
fiddler, but in reality he was one Of
greatest mechanics. whose life
lad become absorbed in one great OBJ