The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-24
TRADES COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION |. ID WORK LABOR DAY Labor Day to Be Celebrated Sunday With Sacred Exer-
 cises at Capitol Park WAGES DONATED TO AMERICAN RED CROSS Officers Are Elected for the Year With R. P. Bernhart as Presi-
 dent-Other Officers
 Named

Birminghams working people added anothor chapter to their loyal Ameri . canism yesterday when. through their central body. the Birmingham Trades Council, they voted to work on Labor Day an1 donate the days wages to the Red Cross
 When the proposition was first made one of the delegates suggested that tine proceeds of the days work be used m buying War Savings Stamps Objection was mace to this on the ground that it would be profiteering.
 You can buy War Savings Stamps days" declared one of the delegates, and you should do that. But if we are going to forego our usual holiday, the day on which We usually get togther and discuss labor conditions past present ana future, we should not try to make an extra profit out of it. The War Savings Stamps are splendid investments: there are none better, and everybody should buy them. If we work Labor Day let us work for our country, not simply for ourselves
 WORK FOR RED CROSS
 When the resolution was put to a vots 1t carried unanimously with the result that all wages earned by the laboring people affiliated with the labor organiza- Hons that make up the Birmingham Trades council will go to the Red Cross.
 Labor Day will be celebrated on Sun day, September 1, at the Capitol park, instead of the first Monday in Septem- Der, in order that the members of the unions may work a day for Uncle Sam.
 After the transaction of routine busi- ness the Trades Council elected officers as follows:
 President, R. P. Bernhart of the Street Railway employees; vice president, H. 5. Morrison of the carpenters; recording and corresponding secretary, D. s. Lyt- ton of the electrical workers; treasurer, j. H. F. Mosley of the Typographical union; press representative, H 1. Reeves of the cigarmakers; sergeant -arms, l.. E. Daniels of the machinists; door keeper, Frank $. Meadows Trustees, O.. Karlson of the machinists; I. c. Turner of the Typographion union, and I. M. Levin of the Musicians union.
 Schooloook committee to take up the matter of free books: Delegates Mo Cutchin, Mosley and Longhurst
 A committee was appointed to confer with Dr. George Eaves, secretary of the Anti-Tuberculosis association, upon the advisability of establishing peoples forum.
 The resolutions on Labor Day were introduced by Henry c. West of the Birmingham Typographical union. The resolutions follow:
 RESOLUTIONS
 Whereas. It has been suggested by the Weekly Call that contrary to long es- tablished custom Labor Day celebrations in Birmingham and the United States be not held this year in the usual manner, and
 Whereas, It has further suggested, with the one object of winning the world war in view, that labor's forces throughout our country go to their jobs on Labor Day and exert every effort possible to produce all that can be produced in a single days and
 Whereas. The products of our labor were never before so needed in all the history of the world, be 1t. therefore,
 Resolved, That Sunday, September 1, 1918, be and is hereby set apart by the Birmingham Trades Council as the proper time for holding this years Labor Day celebration.
 2. Resolved, That Labor Day be cele- brated by sacred and solemn service in Capitol park.
 $. ReSolVeu, That every man, woman and child who works regardless of what his or her occupation may be, regardless of whether union or nonunion, be in vited to participate in this Labor Day celebration and urged to return to work on Monday following.
 A. Resolved, That the ladies of the Red Cross society be invited and privileged to serve light lunches, coffee. iced tea, etc, on that occasion, should they see fit to do so and apply the profits so de- rived to the work of the society.
 5. Resolved That every person who earns money on Monday, September p Labor Day--be urged to donate the same to the Red Cross society.
 6. Resolved, That copies of these reso- lutions be mailed to every central Trades Council in the United States, to President Wilson, to the war department and to the press.
 z Resolved, That President Wilson and Samuel Gompers be invited to attend Bir- mingham's Labor Day celebration.