Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-06-29
TRADES AND LABOR ASSEMBLY

The regular meeting of the Trades
and Labor Assembly Sunday morning
was called to order by Vice President
E. H. Franklin, and was opened in
regular form.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were approved as read.
The report of the Grievance Com
mittee was accepted.
The Labor Day committee reported
progress.
The following is a synopsis of a
communication from Samuel Com
pers, President of the A. F. of l.. and
the declaration of the Executive Coun-
Gil of the A. F. of l.. relative to La
Dor Sunday and Labor Day. The COM
munication was referred to the La
Dor Day Committee.
Having regard for the need of
keeping constantly before the masses
of our people the highest ideals of our
labor movement and the requirement
of our people for the complete full
ness of life in all things, the Exc
cutive Council of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor declares as follows:
"The labor movement of America
has ever had high regard for the
development of the ethical and the
spiritual life, realizing the right of
all humanity to partake freely of the
great satisfaction that comes to en-,
rich life as a result, and recognizing
the fact that all freedom and higher
development of life, rest upon first
providing assurance of the essentials
of existence, has first demanded eco
nomic justice as basis for all other
things.
"The labor movement fixes as its
goal nothing less than the complete
richness of life, without limitations
of any kind, the attainment of the
complete human ideal, in all of it's
economic, ethical and spiritual i'm
plications.
Through the inspiration of our la
Dor movement, the Sunday preceding
Labor Day which is the first Monday
in September each year, has come into
general national observance as Labor
Sunday. On this day it is fitting to
give thought to the aspirations of
Labor and to find in what way the
soul of Labor may give thought and
to its longings.
because of the aims and asplra-
tions here set forth, we hold it fitting
that all churches draw close to their
affairs the soul of Labor on the coming
Labor Sunday and that the men and
women of labor everywhere make
special effort to cooperate with the
churches and to secure the co-opera-
ton of the churches with them, IN
order that there may be in the
churches everywhere on that day
great unison of expression in behalf
of a higher, nobler life for the masses
of our people; and in order that there
may be everywhere a conservation t.
the cause of human betterment, par
in those things that lead to
ethical and spiritual growth-in these
things that give flower and fruit to
the great idealism of our Labor
the embodiment and the
expression of the idealism of our
people.
"May Labor Sunday each year
bring home to the masses of our peo-
pie the great good that humanity may
vet achieve, the lofty heights to
which it may climb, the inspiration
and the enrichment to be found in
the great American labor movement
which is the hope of the millions who
toll"
The communication from Local No.
281 N. A. l.. c., relative to granting
the letter carriers in Newark half
holiday on Saturday afternoons, was
received and the secretary by unanl-
nous action was instructed to write
DR.. w. G. Corne, P. M, that the
Trades and Labor Assembly of New
ark, Ohio, is in favor of it.
The communication from the
United Mine Workers of America was
referred to the organization COM
mittee.
The request of the Street and Elec-
trical Railway Employees asking that
Mr.. John S. Bleeker and Gen. Supt
C. C. Fast be invited to address the
in behalf of the Street Car
Co. was granted. The secretary was
instructed to notify all Locals that
the above named gentlemen would be
present and address the Assembly at
the next regular meeting, which will
be Wednesday, July II, at 1880 T. M:
Bro. Peter Anderson was appointed
as member of the Labor Day Com
mittee.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing term:
Tresident-Wm. M. Morgan.
First Vice Pres.-E. H. Franklin.
Second Vice Pres.-Harry Cochran.
Fin. Sec'y-J. Oscar Juch.
Cor. Sec'y-Carl Lippincott.
Treasurer. H. Sharritt.
Chaplain-Mr Homer B. Howard.
Guard-Nick Emmert.
Trustees-Julius Juch, Robert Viii
Iiams, Frank Fishbaugh.
.anitor-Nick Emmert.
The above officers will be installed