Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-09-01
LABOR'S REAL DAY DAWNING.


Today is Labor Day. Labor Day comes once a
year, but this is more than an ordinary Labor Day
it is the dawning of LABOR'S REAL DAY
The last few weeks and months, during the trying
times of reconstruction, have been fraught with mis-
givings and fears-and misunderstanding. The world
has been made he flames of Bolshevism-a form of
social rabies-have snged this side of the world
But the red tide is receding and this Labor Day sees
the beginning of the end of the reign of unreason and
restoration of Of sanity.
There is no doubt about this Two weeks ago it
did not appear to be But in the last few days the
clouds have been breaking suddenly and melting away
and the sun of reason and understanding is peeping
through with promise and assurance.
i. Great days are ahead for Labor, because Labor
is going to seize its opportunity to make them great
days 1t is going to its brain as we'll as its Drawn
ii is going to enter upon gigantic program of con
truction instead of destruction For Labor has begun
awaken to the fact that only by construction can
its interests be developed and broadened that
the nation prospers whole will Labor pros
per, and that as the nation as a whole suffers
will Labor suffer Labor has suddenly
realized that general strikes will make
the nation suffer from hem that reducing production
will not give the problems graphing with
and intend to solve. Labor, under the guidance of
really great leader Gompers, is taking time to think
before it actsand when really think, calmly and
dispassonately, with will to do the right thing and
the best thing, they do not often make mistakes
President Wilson sounded an additional note of
in Jabop Iac4ay hie T OH
sage. In it the President said;
/, Il encouraged and gratifed by the progress
which is being made in controlling the cost of living
The support of the is widespread and con-
fdently look for substantial results, although must
counsel patience as we'll as vigilance because such
will not come instantly or without team work.
g. '1et me again emphasize my appeal to every ct
zen of the country continue to give his personal
support in the matter, and to make # as active pos
sible. Let him not only refrain from doing anything
which at the moment will tend to increase the cost
Of living but let him do all in his power to increase the
productions and further than that let him at the same
time himself carefully eeonomiae in the matter of con
sumption By common action in this direction shall
overcome a danger greater than the danger of war
We will hold steady situation which is fraught witt
possibilities of hardship and suffering large part Of
population; will enable the process of pro
duction to overtake the process of consumption; ant
we will speed the restoration of adequate purchas
ing power of wages.
81 am particularly gratifed at the support whicl
the governments policy has received from the repre-
sentatives of organized labor and l earnestly hop,
that the workers generally will emphatically endors
the position of their leaders and thereby move witt
il in the solution of this greatest domestic problem
81 calling for early date as practicable
conference in which authoritative representatives of la
Dor and of those who direct labor will discuss funda
mental of lettering the whole relationship o
capital and labor and putting the whole question O
wages upon another footing"
The President is calling conference he says
to work means of lettering the whole RELATIONSHIP
between Labor and Capital That means cooperation
and cooperation means progress. And in that pro
gress which is beginning Labor will have its full share
ANDREW CARNEGIE.