The union times., 1945-09-01
Holiday Hinged With Fear That
 Bad Days Loom
Unionists Resolve We Must Build a Future Based On
 Security For All

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 Labor Day came back into its own this year as a real ma. tiOnal holiday.
 Once again, the American people are taking time out from their regular daily grind to have a little fun and to give grateful recognition to the magnificent wartime achieve ments of the nations workers.
 The only cloud on the na- tional horizon, now that peace has returned, was the looming problems of the future and the need for drastic action to pre- vent widespread unemployment and another economic tailspin.
 Truman KeynOtes
 But the American people were in a predOminantly holiday mood. President Truman sounded the keynote for the country when he said in his Labor Day message:
 The tasks GheGd are great and the opportunities are equally great. Your government is determined fO meet those tasks and to fmItfH those opportunities. Our men and sUOmen did not t0Iter in fhe t0sk of sap. ing freedom. They sOiH nOt faIter nO'O in the task Of nsGking freedom secure.'
 Double Victory
 Expressing the views of the na- tlon's workers, A.F.L. President Will liam Green said:
 We have won a double victory "a military victory over powerful enemies and a spiritual triumph over despOtism and dictatorship. Now it is our supreme purpose to attain the fruits of victory for which We have paid so dearly"
 We Mourn Our Dead
 The Labor Day celebrations held by ALL. organizations in many cities of the nation were sobered by the realization of the grief which war had brought to many American homes. Memory of the thousands of boys who will never come back from the fighting fronts and of the thou sands of workers who lose their lives in the factories while labor won the battle of production, remained fresh in all hearts.
 In token of the solemn debt which the nation owes to these war heroes and can never be repaid, President Green was scheduled to deliver his annual Labor Day ad- dress from the cemetery where Peter J. Mcclure, father of Labor Day, lies buried near Camden, N. ]. The memorial services, sponsored by the Camden Central Labor Un- ion, stressed the fact that the ma. tion must establish ga way of life which will bring happiness and security to humanity in the future.
 While labor paid tribute to the fighting heroes of the war, leaders of the government and the armed forces from President Truman down took advantage of the occasion to return the compliment to the nations loyal workers.
 "Will Always Remember''
 He declared the world will always remember the services of the work CTS of all free nations ''whO pro- duced the vast equipment with which victory was wOn."
 Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson said:
 For their contribution toward vic tory, the men and women in our war industries deserve the highest con- mendation. want to extend my thanks and congratulations to every one of them"
 Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces, bestowed special praise on aircraft workers, Navy Department bigwigs tossed bou- quets at the shipyard workers and so on, all down the line.
 But pleased as they were by all these encomiumS, the workers were more than a little disturbed by an undercurrent of uncertainty as to what IS going to happen to their jobs.
 Led by President, Green, A.F.L. speakers at Labor Day meetings em- phasized the urgent need of speeding up reconversion, adopting legislation to meet human needs during recon version and expanding peacetime pro- duction to point which would pro- vide jobs for all and keep the Ameri- can people supplied with the material comforts which modern civilization affords.