South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-04
SEPTEMBER 4. 1922
LABOR'S CELEBRATION

This q the day established by law and set apart
sor tho rehearsal OF the achievements OF American
labor Il Is designed as tribute TO the dignity
Of labor. day when not only the progress made
may be reviewed but when the future may be
pierced by the eye Of prophecy
Il Is also the day when those who do not work
for wages but who may employ others might well
look over the field and ask themselves the same
questions which labor will answer in its discussions
There have been more peaceful Labor Days in
the history Of this day. The other years have not
found 50 many thousands on strike. with evidences
OF unrest Of uncertainty OF discomfort so prevalent
Perhaps in that very unrest and DISSATISFACTION
which at times becomes distressing and acute lies
the secret OF the real OF pride Of labor on
this particular day
American labor today occupies a more enviable
condition in comparison with the workers Of other
lands than 1t has ever before in history
The Russian worker depending on his new theory
OF communism, has emancipated himself into hun
ger. privation. penury. the bread line Today finds
him his lowest level OF comfort. OF education and
OF opportunity. re lives under conditions that
would have caused world protest II they had been
imposed by arbitrary power. His condition of life
would have brought ostracism from civilized
world IN the old days.
Across the line in Austria are unprecedented con-
dltions famine. starvation wages of inability
NAL levels Of strength exists
The German. defeated in war finds himself con-
demned to a hopeless and endless status of toll
without chance OF long hours with food of
terrible sacrifice with end in sight.
In France her workers, victorious in war find
themselves IN scarcely better condition and with
IN st pressing problems to be solved Their homes
are gone. Devastation has taken away the
dustries The means Of life are limited and for
them the hours ahead clouded dark.
The British wage Garner. dependent upon trade
end manufacture, carries with him his drudgery,
the knowledge that it will be years before he may
again recover the comforts which his few
years ago
In every part Of the civilized globe the standards
OF life have fallen and lowered until the lot of,the
most fortunate than that of the least for
tunate before the war.
IN each of these countries the morals. the edu-
cation. the spiritual impulses have suffered a
greatly as the material factors OF life
IN America alone there has been no lowering of
standards of IHe no surrender Of the advances
gained in past years. no lessening standards of
education for the child OF the wage Garner. no
curtailment his pleasures his opportunity for de-
velopment. his chance for ownership of home and
bank account
Thar is the big victory OF labor and OF America.
It refused to surrender It's victory savagery
and discomfort just as It failed to weaken before
autocracy.
Labor conquers all" has been epigram from
the days early Roman It remained for
American labor to give Interpretation and truth
the arhorism.
Labor has conquered ignorance. 1t has banshed
discomfort 1t has established its own high stand
ards Of life until the lowest paid wage to-
day lives better his children have Detter educa-
ton. he has greater power Of amusement and Of
culture than have the rulers OF the employing
classes OF other nations.
on this Labor Day. let that fact be celebrated
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS oath taken never to
surrender this victory either misguided leader
skip in untroddea paths to any movement
which endangers the high position labor has at
tanned.
The present shadows upon the industrial field
appear as the merest nimbus sultry day when
one glance taken at the OF the world and at
the burdens carried BY the workers OF other lands.