The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1914-10-16
IDEALS OF LABOR.
TO Make the World Better For
Those Who Toll.
FR0M BONDAGE TO FREEDOM.

Organization Is Slowly but Surely
Striking the Shackles From the
Limbs of Workers-Unons the Bea
con Lght-A Labor Day Revere.
one day of the year is set apart as
tie day of the workers Of America.
That day was made possible and given
significance by the labor movement.
No other force in all the world has
done more to bring hope and better
ment to the victims Of power.
Look down the ages. Wherever
there was oppression Of those who
toiled with their hands there was the
labor movement Down the ages
marched the millions who bore the
burdens yet who were denied oppor
tunity ana who suffered injustice. But
they marched steadily onward and up
ward thcy marched ont Of bondage
into the realm Of freedom
The meaning Of every movement Is
its ideals Not every close range view
Of tile movement viii show whittier it
tends or what it means But the sweep
and the scope Of this movement us 1t
surges irresistbly through the ages re
veals its ideals and show what it has
been worth to human beings. Steadily
Che movement has freed them from
the power Of the masters and has
brought more and more freedom into
the lives Of The people Far freedom
must start within the individual and
proceed outward 1t must first he in
the hearts aud minis Of Individuals.
and then it cam be manifest In their
deeds and rcHtion~ to each other.
The purpose of the movement is the
great ideal sought by All the seels. The
methods 10y which the ldeal is to be
made real are practical 8nd material
BY organization the workers secured
definite aud shorter workdays The
gain sounds very eommouplace hut
when translated in terms of human
ives its purpose becomes one with the
vision OF greater human freedom ANA
/ opportmitv Increased wages mean
increased opportunities to live. The
stomach must he satisfied before The
mind can rappe With problems Of
work or reach ont after the ideal
Every new aarpenltaf that provides
for better physical prote. tlan of oul
/ velopment anna more able and re-
sourccful nation.
Progress for the worlfIg ppoplp has
come from oraanizafon rhe unions
have been the schools of fhr common
nconle. Thcr havc taught Them tffair
rights. puintrd out fheir possibilities
ana shown them that they hold fheir
4 future in tleir own hands The unions
have been The enemies of things AS
thev are tie champions of things ais
they may be
/ The extension Of tine labor move
ment tmou4h organization means bet.
ter living for the numbers now de
prived of their rights and opportuui-
ties. The unions carry cheer and com.
fort into the DARK places where the
workers are seemingly hopeless They
20 to those whose VERY bones are
weary with much labor and whose
! minds are made numb and dumb with
the struggle for dairy existence The
unions gather such into their folds,
make OF them independent. free orea.
4 lures with hope. AS tine unions n-
crease iu number and in strength their
possibilities for further hclpfaness to
greater numbers of the heavily op-
pressed increase i'm proportion Labor
day, 1914 found The trade union
movement stronger thau ever before
1t found the trade union movement
making new and more successful at
tempts to organize those who have
never been organized The wage earn
ing women ANA the unSkIled workers
As the work Of the federated unions
becomes grcater its successes become