The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-07
Topeka Labor Day Celebration
Was Greatest in History.
Full Day of Entertainment and
Enlightenment Here. s.
BARROW IS Bitter ON COURT
Chicago Labor Leader Says Law
VIII Fill JaiIs.
DR.. Jenkins Said Topeka Unions
Were Not Suffering.

Union labor set 'em up" Monday
1t was the biggest Labor day cele-
i bration in the history of the city.
Labor designed and carried out the
1 highest class entertainment it ever
/ gave Topeka, and footed the bill. To-
day the laboring men returned to their
! tasks well satisfied with their work.
for there was not a hitch in the pro-
gram from the time the big parade
! formed at $3.50 O'Clock in the morning
i until the audience which gathered to
/ hear Dr. Burris Jenkins filed out of
the doors of the auditorium late in
/ the evening.
Following the parade in the morn
/ ing, the crowds gathered at Gage park,
where the big athletic program started
at 2 o'clock. At $3.50 o'clock Clarence
/ S. Darrow, noted Chicago attorney,
. began his address before several thou
sand persons. The new Industrial
court law was swatted right and left
! by barrow in the afternoon and Jen-
/ kins in the evening. Lawyers, profess
sional and business men mingled with
union members to hear both speeches
Law VIII Fill JniIs.
barrow was introduced by John
Schroeder. president of the Topeka In
dustrial Council. and the speaker
| launched directly into his attack on
the industrial court law. He branded
it as a measure that will fill Kansas
jails faster than the bone dry law
empt.cd them. that will enslave labor,
wrong the employers and Will help
only the farmer and lawyer.
barrow expressed no encourage
ment of Cancellation between capital
and labor. The interests of employer
ana eInplcye. he said, are so widely
apart that they will never be other
than enemies He said he was not sur
prised that the legislature. being COM
posed largely CT farmers. voted SO
heavily in favor of the law. 1t con-
tains nothing to compel farmers to
raise crops. he asserted, but is de-
signed only to suppress the laboring
man.
But it will only fill the jails faster
than the bone dry law emptied them"
he declared. "Y GU cannot make men
work unless they choose and the con-
stitution gives them the right to sug-
gest to their neighbor that they loaf
together. If it will better serve their
ends in getting higher wages"
Topeka Unions Healthy.
The Kansas industrial court Jaw was
characterized by DR.. Burris A. Jen-
kins, Kansas City publisher, 5 "the
ened to strangle the unions in his
Labor Day address at the auditorium
| last night. He prophesied that the
tlaw would not succeed.
| Almost in the same breath Doctor
Jenkins said:
II don't see any evidence that To-
peka unions are suffering from the
effects of the court for they all look
| healthy"
tor Jenkins's address, which closed the
Topeka Labor Day program ~
| Principles emphasized by Doctor
Jenkins were respect for private prop
erty rights and the prevention of vio-
lenee from any class, altho he said
that warfare between capital and la
Il
Soften the Blows.
| ''But the blows between capital and
labor may, be softened by understand
! in of each others problems" he said
/ Doctor JenkinS's -disapproval of the
Russian soviet. plainly expressed, won
applause. and he stated tnaL sucn
plan would never work in America or
anywhere
The inefficient workman should be
weeaed from the ranks. he said, and
all should give fair work for their
wages.
| John Schroeder. president of the In
dustrial council
| "The Right to Happiness" a~motion
I picture setting forth the principles OF
| the unions was shown following Doc
tor Jenkins's address,
Song by Blind Man.
The musical feature at the city audi
| torfum Monday evening was the song
| by Professor Harlow r Dean, OF
| Washburn college. It was written by
blind minister, Rev. Henry L. Marsh,
/ of the Plymouth church. Wichita, and
| bears to America the same significance
as Kiplings "RecessionaI' to England.
The words follow:
GOD OF OUR FATHERS.
TUNE st, Catherine.l
! God of our Fathers. by whose hand
They gained for us this goodly land,
/ We bow today with grateful praise
! For mercies in these latter days.
! God of our Fathers, living yet
/ o keep US stiii, lest we forget.
! God OF our Fathers, mighty yet
In spite Of sword and bayonet:
In spite Of mans colossal pride,
Thou and Thy Truth doth still abide.
/ Refrain
God Of our Fathers. we would be
Faithful to Thee and liberty;
o keep us stili, be Thou our Guide.
/ subdue our hate, restrain our pride.
/ Refrain
| God of our Fathers, hear our prayer.
Give faith to hope. give strength to dare,
o keep our land forever free.
/ Refrain
Gage Park Festivities.
! Immediately after the big parade
I disbanded at the east steps of the
state house, the crowd took cars and
automobiles for Gage park. where the
entertainment began with a bang at
two o'clock. Many kids competed to-