Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-31
6-DAY WORK WEEK
PASTOR'S LABOR
SUNDAY TEXT
Union Men and Their Families
viii Spend Monday at
Grant Park.

Atlanta will enjoy its Labor day this
year. Everything viii be closed Mon
DAY except the parks and the working
men Will take a rest. instead Of parad-
Ing under the sun which usually works
overtime on Labor day
The churches Will observe the day
by special services tomorrow, nearly
all Of the leading ministers having an
nounced sermons bearing on the occa-
sion The official Labor day sermon will
he delivered at the Harris Street Pres
byterian church by Rev Jere A. Moore
who will return from a vacation trip
especially for the occasion.
The union men and their families
will hold their main celebration a.
Grant park. where a big basket picnic
will be held. There will be dancing
music. baseball game and addresses
bv 5. B. Marks. president of the state
federation, Can Harston. president OF
the Atlanta body. and jerome Jones
editor Of The Journal of Labor
City Hall To Be Closed,
The city hall will he closed all day
and the council meetings viii be post
poned until Tuesday afternoon so the
MAYOR and council and all oficehoid-
ers can ioin the hosts of labor at their
picnic The banks and most of the
business houses viii be closed an day
At the Piedmont park lake there viii
be special exhibition Of aquatic
sports and it is expected that the larg-
est crowd which ever visited the swim
ming pool will take a dip.
"One Rest Day in Seven Tor All
Workers" win be the theme upon which
Rev. Jere A. Moore pastor OF the Har-
ris street Presbyterian church. VIII
sneak tomorrow morning at the Labor
Sunday services.
Many other churches of various de
nominations throughout the nation will
take cognizance of Labor day. which
will be celebrated Monday, and the
pastors will preach upon subjects con
corning organized working men. ON
cial Labor day services win be held in
the Harris street church, following
custom Of the Atlanta laboring men in
choosing a particular church each year
for holding special services,
A special program following that
outlined by the Federal Council OF
Churches of Christ IN America viii be
carried out under the direction of Q. G..
Johnson chairman of the committee.
Many Work Seven Days.
statistics have been gathered in the
past few weeks 10y the pastor Of Har-
ris street church. which show that in
America more than 100000 men, wom-
en- and children have no rest on any
dav In the week In the South this
tendency is particularly strong and the
pastor viii make this a part of his
address
Among the toilers in mills and facto-
ries. among the drug and soda clerks
and railroad sWitchmen this regular
seven DAYS to the week is carried out,
according to his statistics.
The meeting Sunday it is believed,
viii start an agitation among the At
lanta ltboring men TO give every work
ing man one day Of rest in the week.
The laborlng men prefer that this day
should be Sunday. but insist that all
men should have one day of rest.
Rev E. Dean Fleetwood. pastor of
the First Universalist church who has
spent the summer in Chicago univer-
sity studying labor conditions in this
country as a part of his course, will
make Labor day services the feature of
his church worship Sunday morning.
He will read Nipling's poem, The