The Connecticut labor news., 1921-07-29
SWEET-ORR co. HAS GALA OBSERVANCE
 OF 5OTH BIRTHDAY
Firm Friend of Labor and First to Use Garment Label Reafhrms
 It's Policy.

Orr X Co.,, Inc, which was celebrated Saturday, at the mother factory at Wappingers Falls, New York, will live not only i'll the hearts and minds of the participants but in picture and cinematograph. Representatives from the IS SWeet-Orr factories scattered over the United States helped swell the thousands who took active part i'll the celebration. Trains, motors and boats carried the visitors from New fork to Wappingers Falls. The activities began at noon and lasted until long past midnight. Games, contests, prize awarding and the talk ing of motion pictures were the most popular features were the ball game between team representing the manufacturing end at Wappingers Falls and the New York clerical force; Dan Brouthers, the famous old batting champion, umpired the game. He wore as the official insignia a striped pair of Sweet-Orr overalls, which by the way, was his first OtflC- ial uniform. lie began his profes- Sional baseball career with the Wap- pingers Falls 'Actives" back in the 7os. This club played Saturdays only. They were the champion team of the Hudson river section and they played in overalls supplied by the Sweet-Orr factory The other fea- ture that appealed to the imagination of the crowd was 'tug-of-War' with a pair of Sweet-Orr's as the rope" This ''tug-of-war" was carried out by various groups. President Stanley Sweet and his brother, Reginald, pulled away without ripping the gar ment they manufacture with a guar antee of does not rip" Dan Brouth- CTS holding on to one leg of the gar ment battled with three beautiful representatives from the Newburg factory. Then the trousers were used as a tow rope for a dead automobile which was pulled by a large seven passenger car. These cars ran around the ball park several times with the crowd hoping that some accident might happen.
 Dinner was served in the Sweet Orr factory. More than 1000 people were present. Speeches were made by John J. Manning, secretary and treasurer of the Union Labor Trades Department of the A. F. of L.; Stan ley Sweet, president; Reginald Sweet, secretary; and F. D. Van Amburg. s. l.. Cummings presented golden loving cup to President Stanley Sweet. The names of all the em- ployes of the Wappingers Falls fac tory were engraved upon this cup. John J. Manning delivered the fol- lowing message from Samuel Com pers and then talked as a garment worker to the garment workers upon the American standards of the trades union as represented by the A. F. of L and ending his subject by urging President Sweet not to be led away from his fatheEs principles which Manning called the "Golden Rule of Business"
 Gompers' Message.
 Promoters of the So-called Amer ican Plan of Industry misnomer for open shop, are simply showing the old hostility of employers toward garb. The fact being that the advo- cates of this so-called American Plan have always been hostile to the main tenance and improvement of Amer ican standards sought and being achieved by the trade union move ment as represented by the A. F. of L.'', was MT. Gompers message.
 "This celebration today, by Sweet Orr & Co. exemplihes in the most effective manner the real spirit of the trade union movement. There can be no gainsaying the fact that the labor movement must be fundamentally right when 1t has continued to work in friendly relations underwritten by trade agreement for over 30 years without any industrial dispute This Is our record with SWeetOrr & SO., the first company to place the union label in a manufaStured garment and the first overall company to enter in to an agreement with the union"
 Following the dinner there was a block dance i'll the village park which was apparently attended by every member of the community. Sweet Orr & Company, Inc, sent the fol- lowing telegram to President Hard ing:
 "Sweet-Orr 50 years young sends greetings to President Harding on it's anniversary. A record of 50 years in dustrial peace and mutual under standing we plan for many hfties more under industrial guidance for the nation like yours and labor ideals like MT. Gompers.
 "SWEET-ORR & CO.,, ING" Among the prominent guests were: John J. Manning, B. w. Larger, gen eral secretary of U. c. W. A.; Frank Morrison, secretary of the A. F. of L.; MT. and Mrs. Dan Brouthers, Stanley A. Sweet, president of Sweet Orr X Co.,; Reginald L. Sweet, secre- tary; John H. Roy, treasurer; T. E. Goring, vice-president; A. Hemphill, vice-president; A. T. Davenport, gen eral manager; L. A. Doherty, director and attorney; R. A. Clark, vice-pres- ident and sales manager; and repre- sentatives from the various daily pa | Barber, who helped Miss Kate St. l George make the first pair of Sweet OrrS 5O wears ago