New Ulm review., 1922-09-06
LABOR DAY WAS
OBSERVED HERE
TWO SOCIETIES OF LABORINC
CLASSES ARRANGE DAYS (,
OBSERVANCE.
HERMANN'S HEIGHTS PICNIC
TALK ON CONDITIONS =
AFFECTING LABOR.

Organized labor did not participate
this year in the celebration of Labor
Day. The New Ulm Arbeiter Verein
and the newly organized Arbeiter
Frauen Verein made the necessary
arrangements for Labor Day cele-
bration which was held at Hermann S
Heights Monday afternoon. The
festivities at the Heights were preceded
by parade thru Minnesota street
participated in by the members of the
New Ulm Arbeiter Verein and the
members of their ladies auxiliary, pre-
ceded by the Hofmeister band.
Picnic Entertainment.
The weather was quite hot and op-
pressive, but a goodly number of people
took part in the festivities at Her.
mann's Park and all enjoyed them
selves thoroly. There were anluse-
ments of all kinds, bowery dance in
the pavilion with good music by the
Hofmeister band and a fish pond for
the kids. George Wichefski in a
modest way helped on the merriment
by bringing a gross of balloons for the
little ones. These were gone in a jiffy
and George realized that there are still
some children left in New Ulm. He
could easily have gotten rid of twice
that number.
Labor Exploited.
There was only one speech delivered
in the course of the afternoon and that
was by Capt. Albert Steinhauser who
spoke in German. In the course of his
remarks, the speaker referred to the
primitive times when the strong and
able bodied by dint of physical strength
forced the weaker members of the
human family to work for them. He
explained how in later years the idea
of the sanctity of private property was
worked on an unsuspecting public and
how from that time on brains and not
brawn were the dominating factor in
determining who is to own the wealth
of the world which has been created
by labor from the natural resources of
the world.
The speaker said that for long
time the laborers were practically
slaves and were owned body and
soul by their rulers, that the French
Revolution Was necessary to destroy
the feudal system and that in this
country we had to have civil war
only 60 years ago to determine that
the black race should be kept in bond
age no longer.
Continuing, Mr.. Steinhauser men
toned the names of the rich of this
country, notably John D. Rockefeller
who since 1865 when he was worth
only a few thousand dollars has
managed to accumulate fortune of
$2,500,OO0,000 which is equal to the
entire wealth of twenty-five counties
of the size of Brown County. Ac-
cording to the figures cited by the
speaker, 2 per cent of the inhabitants
own 65 per cent of the wealth of the
country, 65 per cent own only S per
cent of the wealth and 33 per cent own
the balance or 80 per cent.
Bought And Paid For Press.
The speaker asked his audience if
they knew anything about the Mooney
and Billings case, the Sacco and Van
zetti case, had heard about the Ludlow
massacre, in Colorado, about the
killing in cold blood of Hatfield in
West Virginia or had heard anything
about the brutalities committed by
the state consta bulary of Pennsylvania.
He told them that the reason they
knew nothing about these things is
because they read the daily news
papers of the capitalistic press and
that they had not yet learned that
those papers could not be fair to labor.
He recommended that they read the
Minnesota DAILY Star if they want to
get the real facts.
Conditions in the labor ranks can
and will not be improved as long as
the laboring masses do nothing to i'm
prove their own condition. AS long
as Labor listens to the smooth works
of the politician and does his bidding;
and if Labor continues to support the
old party tickets and votes for Preus
for Governor because they have al
ways voted the Republican ticket,
Labor may wake up some morning and
find that the State of Minnesota also
has a state constabulary. And if
this comes to pass and the workers Of
Minnesota find themselves ridden
down as the workers were ridden
down in the State Of Pennsylvania
Labor will have no one to blame but
themselves.
Mr.. and Mrs. Armin Rachel arrived
here on Saturday morning from Sioux
Falls, S. D., to spend several days at
the home of the formers mother, Mrs