The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-14
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
O NEW REASONS TO REJOICE
o THAT WE ARE AMERICANS
Q ANNUAL RALLY HERE
9 AGAINST INFANTILE

Every day come new reasons to re-
joice that we are Americans and that
we have the privileges and liberties
which that brings.
Here is another occasion to eXer-
else that liberty and to manifest that
gratitude.
Once more we are mobilizing for
a type of warfare peculiar to this land
of ours. Not to injure or destroy but
to rescue, assist and make happy
those who have become the victims of
one of the greatest misfortunes which
can come to mankind, that Of being
stricken with a dread disease in the
days of their childhood
The annual rally against infantile
paralysis. On the uniquely appro-
pirate occasion of the Presidents
birthday, himself victim.
Each one of the seven years of this
annual mobilization of all that is
best in us, organized labor has taken
proud part.
And it should. Peculiarly the
voice, defender and spokesman of the
wage earners of America, the organ
lied labor movement has a bigger
stake in this conquest than any other
element of the population.
And it's response to this appeal, in
previous years and now, is worthy of
it's spirit and it's responsibility.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
accepted once more the national
Craftsmanship of the Labor Division.
Vice President Matthew Woll is once
more the national secretary.
In sending out a call to outstand-
ing figures in labor's ranks, President
Green said, in part:
"With pleasure l have again ac-
cepted appointment as chairman of
the Labor Division for celebration of
the Presidents birthday to support
the National Foundations great war
to combat infantile paralysis. 1t is
my purpose to organize a vigorous
campaign supporting this noble cause
1t is by earnest hope that we may
make record this year of which we
may all be proud
This is an appeal that no member
of organized labor can ignore. Here
is a chance to give concrete evidence
of the fact that we are free, that we
can engage in and successfully carry
on enterprises of this high character.
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Hhere is a chance to add one more
star to the bright crown of organized
labor. We have in the record of our
great movement the ceaseless and sue
cessful battle against child labor We,
more than any other force and ele-
ment, laid the foundations of our
great, free public school system.
Our ranks are composed of the
fathers and mothers of this country.
Our children are perhaps less in
danger of this dread scourge than
those less fortunately situated and less
able to resist the inroads of infection.
But when a great man surrounded
with all the safeguards that wealth
and position can give, is not immune,
none of us, most of all the generation
still in our charge, can be safe.
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So, there is not worthy chord in
the human heart that should not re-
spond. Everything that is good in
America should and will embrace this
opportunity.
And we can again demonstrate to
our fellows in other walks of life that
the American wage Garner who carries
a union card can and will use the
facilities of the mighty movement he
has builded for another spectacular
addition to that long list of good
causes to which he has in the past de-
voted it.