Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-09-07
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in the manner in which this occasion demands.
 However, will briefly discuss La Dor Day and it's relation to good citi- zenship and the urgent necessity of organization among the wage .earners if Labor Day is to be perpetuated
 When class of people, the toilers of the city factories, the workers m the field, and on the waters and on. the railroads; the miners who burrough and tunnel for coal and precious metal deep in the bosom of the earth and other wage earners, never forgetting the countless thousands of half starved children and dependent women who find it necessary daily to fight by che side of men in the never-ending aud ever wearying battle for bread--when a class of people composed of these e- ements has secured through an un. ] friendly congress the enactment of law setting aside the first Monday in September as & national holiday known as Labor Day--when this class of peo. pie has secured this recognition solely l through it's own efforts and in the face of powerful corporate opposition, then | l say fellow union men that this class of people represent good citizenship. Before Labor Day became national | holiday the workingman learned many lessons. He learned to become less se- fish, that through cooperation gen eral benefit in place of isolated in. stances of gain, was to be derived; that an injury to one was the concern of | all; that he was an important unit in the body civic, that he should vote and vote for honest officials who would provide proper school buildings and eff. ficient teachers to educate his children; | who would safeguard the city's peace and health; who would provide public utilities and public parks; he also learned that harmony and obedience in the ranks of organized labor were 1 essential to success. These lessons learned were a few of the stones that compose the solid and indestruetible mass that serves as q foundation for Labor Day.
 Therefore Labor Day was secured | through organization. an organization composed of good citizens. But one day in the year upon which organized labor can rejoice and give praise will not satisfy for all time to come. As organizations become stronger and more numerous, which will happen in time. ''Labor Days'' will become more ire quent. They bring forth day upon which the laboring man can give praise flor more healthful and safer working | surroundings, for shorter work-day, for wages sufficient to properly clothe, feed and educate his children and leave a residue to provide a home for his fam | ily. In time the national workingman' holiday will become a weekly celebra- tion. But it will only come through | organization, a stronger organization. and an observance of tlp duties of good citizenship.
 Today in every hamlet, in every large city, organized labor is celebrating La. bor Day, victory won twenty-two years ago. The workingman on this day has peacefully left his employment and in most instances is celebrating as you are--in lawful and happy reun ions and in rest. That is the kind of a celebration organized labor is holding 1 today.
 Today in McKees Rocks, Pa, the state that has produced more prominent political scoundrels in the past few | NtdrS indu dD the Stdlts tOHlDlHtu, whose judiciary is rotten to the core, whose citizens have been plundered by interruptions politicians and illegal cor poration; today in McKees' Rocks, where 5000 unfortunate unorganized, H. literate foreign employees of the Pressed Steel Car company are being murdered, maimcd and driven from their homes by hired assassins, another kind of eel ebraton is being held.
 | It's celebration that a class of or ganized wealth often holds with much pleasure and profit to themselves. It's the celebration of force, unlawful force, over the weak and nnorganized; of ev 'ery cruelty known to hired thugs not excepting murder and the mstreat ment of the women.
 So we find two kinds of celebrations being held on this Labor Day. Labor's forces are engaged in peace ful and lawful rejoicing.
 A certain element of organized wealth is celebrating the commission of every crime on the calendar.
 Fellow workers, no sadder argument, no more murderous tactics, no stronger proof that sometimes organized wealth | is a public menace, can be furnished as | Continued on Page Five)