The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-30
We Stand On the Threshold of a
 Wonderful Day By JOHN A. VOLL, President, Glass Bottle Blowers Association of the United
 States and Canada.

Just before his death John Voll, Association wrote an article for the Labor Day issue of the American Fed
 erationist-his last contribution to any American labor publication except his
 own journal. This article expresses | the idealism, the high hopes and aspira-
 tions, and the great goal for which his
 life was given. It is a privilege here
 to reproduce John Volps last plea for Labor
 Never in the worlds history has there been a time fraught with so much
 achievement or prolific of so much hope | for the masses of our country and the world as dawning of Labor Day 1924
 ushers i'll and records. The tyranny and
 sordid selhshness practiced the ages
 goneby, and carried to a degree to our
 present age, is disappearing as in a
 mist due to the constant insistence of 1 the organized wage earners that men are created free and equal and that | there shall be no discrimination under | thel wa. Sorry indeed was the plight | ot the wage earner previous to orga- nlzat1On into trade unions Therefore, | let 1t be fixed idelibly in our minds that l progress III his interest and achieve
 ment for his welfare dates from the formation of his organization in the | industrial field, and which has been so | magn1flcently and triumphantly carried forward and upward under the banner of the American Federation of Labor. Today as the writer views the sit
 uation the masses chiefly the sacrifices
 and efforts of the organized wage ear
 ners of our country, and the world, l stand upon the threshold of wonder tul evolutionary revolution, that If con- tinued to be rightly steered and handled will bring to them much more freedom and much greater share of sunshine i'll life than has been theirs heretofore
 With the daWning of Labor Day 1924
 there Is no class in our country or no place so far remote that does not req
 llze and recognize the power and in
 t1tenCe which the organized labor move
 ment as exemplihed by the American
 Federation of Labor is welding for good in the interest of all the people.
 Hence any little progress or small
 achievement made or gained by the
 smallest unit of the organized labor
 movement in its uplift work leaves its reflex upon the minds of those who are looking forward and upward but as yet have not been able to penetrate through
 the mists of doubt and pessimism re-
 garding their own welfare
 Relative to the Glass Bottle Blowers Organization, its membership has mag
 nifcently weathered the cross currents by which it has been buffeted for the
 past twenty years through the introduc-
 ton of Automatic Machinery The or ganizaton is now i'll agreement through collective bargaining with more than forty plants throughout the United States and Canada operating the new method of production.
 Optimism has taken the place of pes, | simism and indifference in the minds of the members and they look forward with inspirational satisfaction to that
 time when through education, under
 standing and compromise the economic rights of the workers will be recogni- zed and industrial warfare become so mnimized as to be almost thing of the past.