The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
AZ. OFL. COUNCIL URGES THAT LABOR
 OBSERVE ITS DAY
In Proclamation This Week Execu- tive Board Also Advises Labor
 Sunday" Also Be General.
A PROCLAMATION

Labor Day and Labor Sunday Ob- servance Throughout America Asked by A. F. of L. Executive Council in
 inspiring appeal.
 Having regard for the need of keeping constantly before the masses of our people the Highest ideals of our labor movement and the re- quirement of our people for the con- p1ete fullness of life in all things, the Executive Council of the Amer jean Federation of Labor declares as follows:
 The labor movement of America demands for all of our people the full benefit of the living giving forces of our marvellous civilization through constantly ysincreasing wages and inn provement of working conditions and through reasonable and proper re- duction in the hours of work
 The labor movement of America for all who serve usefully in any capacity, a sound and just economic basis for life and freedom in the full est meaning of those terms.
 The labor movement of America has ever had high regard for the de- veloprnent of the ethical and the spiritual in life, realizing the right of all humanity to partake freely of the great satisfaction that comes to enrich life as a result.
 The labor movement of our coun- try, recognizing the fact that all free dom and all higher development of life, rest upon first providing assur- ance of the essentials of existence, has first demanded economic justice as basis for all other things.
 But the labor movement has all | ways taught that the material is es- sential to something higher, and that 1 the inspiration of our movement has | it's deepest springs in something above 1 and beyond the material.
 The labor movement strives for | economic improvement with unrelent- | ing zeal and fidelity because economic | is the first fundamental l requisite; but it holds out to all man. kind flaming torch lighting the way to greater fullness of life, to com plete realization of the finer and nobler aspirations of the mind and soul. goal nothing less than the complete any kind, the attainment of the com plete human ideal in all of it's econ | on1ic, ethical and spiritual inplica- ions.
 Through the inspiration of our la DOT movement, the Sunday preceding Labor Day, which is the first Monday II September each year, has come in o general national observance as Labor Sunday. On this day it is fit ing to give thought to the aspira- ions of labor and to find in what way he soul of Labor may give thought md expression to It's longings.
 Because of the aims and aspira- ions here set forth, we hold 1t fitting hat all churches draw close to their lltars the soul of Labor on the com ng Labor Sunday and that the men md women of labor everywhere make special effort to cooperate with he churches and to secure the CO., operation of the churches with them, Il order that they may be in the ;hurches everywhere on that day a great unison of expression in behalf ,f higher, nobler life for the masses ,f our people; and in order that there nay be everywhere consecration to he cause of human betterment, par icularly in those things that lead to ,thica1 and spiritual growth-in those hings that give flower and fruit to