The Penn's Grove record., 1919-08-29
INDUSTRIAL UNION
Labor Day. Capitalist Day

Labor Day. Capitalist Day
The first Monday in September has
been designated as Labor Day as
tribute to those who work with then
hands.
The first celebration of Labor Day
was in 1882, by the Knights of Labor
who gave a parade in New York CITY
In 1894 resolutions were passed by
that organization providing that a
parade should be held the first Monday
in September of each year. Since
then several States legislatures have
designated Labor Day as a holiday.
There are persons who lay great
stress n labor to the exclusion of cap
ital. which is the product of labor
saved, by a few beyond their personal
needs, Men who toll sometimes look
with chagrin on those who have saved
and acquired capital.
Lincoln On Labor
In his annual message to Congress,
December 3, 1861, Abraham Lincoln
said:
Labor is prior to and independent
of capital. Capital is only the fruit
Of labor and could never have existed
if labor had not first existed. No men
living are more worthy to be trust
ed than those who toll up from pow
erty, more or less inclined to take or
touch that which they have not honest
ly earned"
Bear in mind that Lincoln speaks
of those who have the ambition to toll
up from poverty. That requires thrift,
frugality and saving part of that hon
estly earned beyond u needs, not our
wants, which becomes capital, and
property.
War Not On Property
March "a, 1864, replying to commit
tee of Workingmen's Association, OF
New York, Lincoln said:
The most notable feature of the dis
turbaHce in your city last year was
the hanging of some working people
by other working people. 1t should
never be so. The strongest bond OF
human sympathy outside of the family
relation should be one uniting all
working people of all nations, tongues
and kindreds; nor should this lead to
a wal on property or owners OF prop
esty -
Property is the fruit of labor 1t is
desirable. 1t is q positive good to the
world. That some should be rich
shows that others may become rich,
and hence il Just encouragement to n
dustry and enterprise.
Let not hia wks is homeless pull
down the house Of another, but let MN
labor diligently and build for HIM
self, thus By example assuring that
his own shall be safe from violence
when bunt." IA
Where Ts Work
On another occasion Lincoln said:
.If yex intend to work, there is no
better place than right where you are.
If you do net intend to go to work, you
can not get along anywhere. Squirm-
sng and crawling about from place 10
place can Do as gssd."
Solomon said: "Whatsoever my
hand fndesh to do, do it with might;
for there ia ne work, nor device, nor
knowledge, nsr wisdom IN the grave,
whittier thss goest."
What the hands do is guided by the
mind in an active brain. Some men
are aatsmatsns. They do what is told
and becoue automatic by hundreds OF
repetitions. Others with active minds
know to do when told or learn by OBJ
servation 30 think and act. So much
as mind is superior to muscle, so much
should mind be entitled to superior re-
wards. "Those who toll up from pow
eTty." when as Lincoln names are
those who are honest and use then
minds and deny themselves the iuXu-
ries of life to become capitalists. So
we should keep in mind that
"Back of the motors humming,
Back of the belts that ring;
Back Of the hammers drumming,
Back of the cradles swing;
There is the eye which scans them,
Watching thru stress and strain;
There is the mind which plans them
Back of the Drawn, the Brain
The labor of muscle without the OBJ
serving active brain accompllshes ut
tie. Both need to be combined. =,
So while observing Labor Day-ail
ahould keep in mind that the energy IN
the brain needs a holiday as well as
,nusele. Both need the other. Both
oeed TO be united to accomplish the
great progress in the worlds indus
tries.
Instead of labor unions and capital
ist unions all should be united in one
Industrial Union. Each have then
places, property, labor and mind. One
should not envy the other. Each has
irs part to act. Each should consult
aud cooperate. Then the world vii
progress in unison and happiness.