Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Labor Marks a Doy

Millions of organized American work.
ers will spend next Monday marching in
parades, attending picnics and otherwise
enjoying a national holiday which has
been set aside to honor labor.
But even as the workers mark their
holiday, their thoughts will turn back to
the past as they view the future. They
will remember that both they and the
boys who served during the late war were
promised that they would not be forgotten
once the conflict was over and victory
rested upon our arms.
They will not forget that the same
Congress which was in adjournment at
this time last year leaving behind it a
vast vOlumn of unfinished important
legislation is again in recess, this time to
seek the workers votes as more important
legislation lies gathering dust in the ma
tiOns capitol.
Next Monday labor will not only
march and enjoy its holiday, but it will
remember the Congress which gave it
something less than the full employment
bill for which the workers asked. They
will remember the killing of the liberal
lied unemployment compensation bill
and the FEPC. They will not forget the
Congress which has added to their diff
culties by mutilating the price control bill
and making ii possible for big business to
get exorbitant price increases.
Yes, labor will remember that back in
Washington lie many pieces of legislation
that would be of benefit to them and the
entire country. They will not forget the
sidetracking of the minimum wage bill,
low cost long range housing or the
Stunned Murray -Wagner-Dingell BILL
Labor will march and its parades will
carry banners reminding them of the anti
labor legislation which was aimed at them
and their organizations. They will re-
member the Case anti-strike act, the Ball
Burton-Hatch act to provide compulsory
arbitration, the Hobbs "anti-racketeering"
Act and host of others aimed at them.
And labor will not forget the admin
istratiOn and its weak and wavering poll
cies. The workers will not forget Presi-
dent Truman's demand for repressive
legislation as an emergency" measure
and his haste in breaking the railroad
strike. They will not forget his refusal
to show a similar concern in the J. l. Case
strike where an anarchistic management
has defied both the government and union
for $50 days.
Labor must think of these things and
no better time could be found to consider
them than the one day when the nation
pays tribute TO the workers, and the hypO-
critical enemies of the working men and
women give lip service to the sons and
daughters of toll.
No better day could be found for labor
to express itself and to consolidate the
opinions and sentiments Of its people than
the day, when with flags waving and
bands playing, workers step out of their
drab workaday routine and jauntily walk
down the streets of America to claim the
cerdit which is due them.
As labor marches next Monday, as it
spends its day in pleasure and celebration,
let those who lead remind the workers
that they celebrate no victory, that they
are the victims of a political and economic
setup and not its masters, that jobs, secur-
ity and peace are still far away and that
the fight for the things to which they are
entitled still must go on.
On this Labor Day, 1916, let labor re-
member the past. Let it face the future
with resOlute determination to fight on
and to overcome the political and eco-
nomic evils which still remain to he con-
quered. Let labor point to November and
not forget what it remembers this Septem-
ber.