The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-09-01
SLOPE LABOR
CELEBRATION
HERE MONDAY
Organized Labor Bodies Of
Mandan, Bismarck and
Wilton Cooperating
For 1t
GALA DAY is PLANNED
Contests, Speaking, Street
Dance and Parade All on
Program of Days
Observance

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Labor Day will be observed in Bis.
marck Monday, September 8, with .
tri-city celebration-union men Of
Bismarck, Mandan and Wilton gath
ering with other union men from the
Missouri Slope for an all-day celebra-
tion.
The exercises will open at 10:3C
a. m. Monday with parade headed
by the st. Mary's school band. The
parade will end at the Bismarck
baseball park where the chief fea-
lures of the days program will take
place.
The chief address of the day will
be delivered at 2 o'clock in the after
noon, when former Supreme Court
Justice Richard H. Grace will speak
Fun galore is planned in the con.
tests arranged by the executive COM
mittee, of which S. S. Mcdonald il
chairman. Over 5000 worth Of prizes
have been donated by Bismarcl
merchants for the contests, which
will include married couples race
boys race, vote on most. popular man
race for married men over so years
fat women's race, girls race, tug OF
war between union men of Bismarck
and United Mine Workers and many
other similar contests. Refreshme ent,
will be served on the grcrad.
At night street dance will b
given on Third street, near Main
street.
Mayors Proclamation.
Mayor Lenhart today issued
the following Labor Day procla-
nation:
Labor Day should be one of
the great holidays Of the year,
because it is dedicated TO no spe-
cial class or creed other than
workers and work-in that re-
spect it is or should be an all
American hosliday.
1T is well, therefore, to re.
member on this day that there is
no substitute for work-it is the
basic principle of a successful
life.
1T is written that the idle
shall perish, but that they who
work diligently and honestly
shall be blessed with happy
and prosperous life. America
has known no exception to this
rule. Its great leaders Of today
are men who generation ago
started at the bottom of the lad
der and by sheer work rose to
the positions they now enjoy.
Our Fords, Edisons. Carnegies.
Gompers and their like are la
borers who overcame all their
early handicaps through work.
THAT, after all, is one Of the
reasons why Labor Day is a hol-
iday peculiar to the United
States. No other country offers
to labor the conditions or op-
portunities that can be found
In this country. Work still is
and always will be the basic prin-
ciple to successful living any
where.
1T is we'll, that Labor Day is
honored 80 widely in America, If
for no other reason than that IL
emphasizes the opportunities for
work and the blessings and pros
perity that come from work.
Nov, therefore, I, A. p. Len.
hart, president Of the city COM
mission of Bismarck, do hereby
urge that September 3 be observ-
ed as Labor Day, that all citi-
zens pay tribute to work ana the
workers of the nation. and fur
ther that all places Of business
be closed from IL noon to 4:aO
p. m. to permit everyone to Join
in the days observance.
(Signed),
A. P. LENHART.
President City Commission.
Wilton miners hsve chartered f.
special train to come to Bismarcl
for the day. There vii be delesa.
tions from Zap, Beulah, Mandan and
other towns. Several officers O,
unions are expected, to be present
President Webb Of the Association
OF Commerce announced every mem.
Der OF the organization should con-
slider himself . member Of 1 com.
mittee- to extend the glad hand Of
Fellowship to visitors here on Labor
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