The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-04
LABOR DAY IS
BEING KEPT
OVER NATION
Secretary Perkins Urges
Individual Resolve to
Build Buying Power
GREEN SAYS IT'S DAY
OF NEW OBLIGATIONS

Washing ON, sept. 4. NOT
Organized workers of America
were celebrating their SD Labor
Day today in the midst of the
most stirring events for the work
ing man since P. J. Mcguire con-
ceived the holiday more than five
decades ago.
The part that labor is playing
in the National Industrial Recov-
cry campaign will be explained to
audiences in all parts of the coun-
try. Recovery Administrator Hugh
S. Johnson speaks today in Chi
cago; Donald Richberg, NRA
counsel, in Memphis.
Labor rallies were being held
in all parts of the country.
Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins appealed last night for
"the united effort to wage earn
ers, employers. and consumers to
help in solving the problems which
have been so pressing in the last
few years"
eve are called upon," she said,
"to observe Labor Day in a more
thoughtful and serious spirit per-
haps than in any of the years in
which it has been a holiday.
Never in all that time have we
been faced by a condition calling
for such united efforts by wage
earners, employers and consumers
to help in solving the problems
which have been so pressing for
the last few years. Only by con-
certed action can we rout the
forces which have brought want,
despair and misery to so many
homes. -.a--... ....s
eff we all, on this day, make up
our minds to do everything indi-
vidually possible to build up the
purchasing power of the nation to
balance our great producing pow
err, then Labor Day, 1888. should
make turn toward better times
and usher in a new era for the
country's wage earners, salaried
workers and employers. In other
words, let US give the National
Recov very Administration our
whole-hearted support.
". So let US dedicate this
Labor Day to pledging ourselves
without reservation to unite in the
drive so that by this time next
year we shall again have jobs and
economic security with the doors
of opportunity open to those will
ling and able to work. President
Roosevelt has forged the weapons
and if :. . we work whole-heart-
edlv and unselfishly together we
should come out of this struggle
in the good old-fashioned Ameri-
can way of victory"
Labor Day 1885," said Presi-
dent William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, "finds
the labor movement with new OPP
portunities busily trying to meet
new obligations. After four years
of depression and steady retro
erosion. wage earners now know
that only through organization
can they provide the kind of eco
nomic security that will prevent a
recurrence of the present break
down.
eve cannot return to the bust
ness practices of 1929 and if we
would have better balance in our
institutions. we must be able to
direct their development. Our
greatest responsibility in the i'm
mediate future is to carry the
message of unionism to all who
work and to do our part to pre-
vent exploitation by helping TO
organize business in the service
of ALL"
Indications that labor's battles
under the National Recovery Act
were not over yet came last night
when Henry 1. Hartman. presi-
dent of the United States Cham
Der of Commerce, sent letter to
all members defending the labor
section of the automobile code.
That is the one which grants
employers the privilege of retain
ing, hiring or advancing workers
regardless of union affiliation.
Hartman said he believed any
industry was within its rights in
expressing in its code the same
language.
The labor advisory board of the
NRA has announced it will oppose
any further attempts to include
such language in codes.