Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-09-05
LABOR DAY WAS PASSED
UNNOTICED IN TONOPAH
No Parade, No Sports, No Celebration of Any
Kind In the Greatest Union Camp In the
West--Members of Tonopah Band Do
mated Services In the Afternoon

Yesterday morning old Sol broke
from the heavens with all his bril-
liancy in Tonopah in commemora-
ton OF the 10Th anniversary of La,
bcr Day, the one occasion given
over TO the men and women who
earn their bread by the sweat of
their brow and whose work is a
great essential in propelling the
world to go round.
The day in Tonopah passed off so
quietly that one would believe that
most OF the populace had taken UP
residences in some sleepy hollow,
There was not sembance of a
parade, not a statement from any of
the many Of Tonopah's citizens cap
able of making an appropriate and
fitting oration for the biler or La
Dor Day, so much in evidence
throughout the length and breadth
of the country, and net even so
much as a burro race to 80 to
make up sports program.
The Stars and Stripes the ma
tional emblem of the greatest of all
republics--w unfurled and swung
to the breezes on but few Of The
business houses Of the city
And all this is to be regretted;
that the day passed off so quietly
when we consider the number Of
union men that 60 TO make up The
5000 on more souls who make this
great camps population
And when we take into consid-
Grafton that the Pine Tree camp,
only few miles distant, and of
much smaller dimensions, held high
festivities there in celebration of
the national holiday with an appro-
PIRATE sports program and many
other forms of amusement, such as
drilling matches, races, etc.
However, during the afternoon
Tonopah' S brass band serenaded va
rious business houses and discoursed
music appropriate to the occasion.
Much credit is due Prof. CARL and
the members of his organization
for tEeir efforts.
TOnopah has learned sweet
lascrn fro,,, tl,i. oN-,,o,io,,,,, a,,d ltl,i.
from authoritative source) it is safe
10 predict that Labor Day will be
celebrated in a way in the future
SO as to establish a record that will
make ether cities of this great labor
state Of Nevada enyious; and much
.ccmpetion will result between the
various cities to compete for high
est honors in commemorating the
toilers day in years yet unborn.
In fact, already arrangements are
being made to have a committee
20 appointed, consisting Of labor
and business men known as the
boosters committee, that will spare
no effort to boost the great camp
whenever the least chance arises.
Much can be written regarding
Labor Day and the persistent work
going on to better the conditions
and lessen the woe of the callousad-
hand workers. When that day
arrives each year the leaders of or
ganized labor feel like pulling to-
gether the threads of the fabric they
Lave been seeking to weave and
holding it up for inspection
The grandest achievement of the
Nmerican labor movement is its
laudablo effort to prevent human
misery. 1t has not mattered whether
the cause was accident, disease,
greed or poverty, the men OF labor
have been equal to the occasion by
devfsing practical remedies for in
dustrial and social evils,
Much has also been done in re-
CARDS to conserving life and health
by means of factory regulations alftl
factory inspection and inspection of
mines and smelling and milling