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With all the grass, so lush in June,
In haymows stored or stacked a-field,
And July’s harvesting in tune
For such a glowing, bounteous yield;
With all the hot, midsummer days
Garnered alike in weeks gone by—
We wait the while the soft wind plays
Through orchard boughs whose yield is nigh.
And while we wait our play-day comes—
The holiday of all the year—
When Labor’s noise no longer hums,
And Labor’s voice is heard in cheer.
Then hey the picnic, is the call!
And sports come on with leap and bound,
The while we hear a voice—“Play ball!”
When merry Labor Day comes round.
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Although our brows with age are crowned!
e aie not women now, nor men—
I When merry Labor Day comes round. V
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In those dear days so long ago!
li What J roystering yarns the men spin out v
m TOde pitchmg quo it s on springy ground,
Ine other fellows’ girls about —
A When merry Labor Day comes round
•' j ^ The thus toil with of all the forgot;
For cheaper’tis year cry^ <
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When . I nto Labor's our lives with such a bound! ^
noise no longer hums.
And merry Labor Day comes round. i
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Toledo T’.aue thinks that those
f ncelved Labor day builded bet-
I*. ■n they knew They not only
f themselves their strength, but
? - id,, ,b. t work
r u •ond of brotherhood for all. The
5 the world .is work, and more
I *re the part of the droue is be-
•oming harder to play. That we must
■il work is coming to be the general
•ought; with n comes the thought of
•onsideration for one’s neighbor No
■an can work and not feel for othe.k '
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“P.rliaps this alters, view
ivc come In the course of time an»-
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THE FITZGERALD LEADER. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER I, 1911
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Seven Terse Reasons
T HE trade union tends to increase
the efficiency of labor.
1. Because it is educational.
The interchange of ideas and in-
formation between the members is an
evolutionary force making always for
higher intelligence. There they dis¬
cuss the best methods of doing work
and the poorest;—the best of manage-
ment and the meanest—naturally fa¬
voring the best methods and condi¬
tions of work and management.
2. Because it safeguards health. All
legislation regarding sanitary condi¬
tions and protection to employees is
due primarily to union effort. All
measures tending to protect the health
or body of the workers tend to pro-
mote efficiency.
3. Because it is opposed to the sub¬
stitution of female or child labor for
adult male labor. This not only makes
for efficiency in the present by giving
the work to those able to work, but
tends to promote the efficiency of the
coining generations by keeping the
wives in the homes and the children
in the schools, where they belong.
4. Because it stands for living
wages. A worker who does not earn
enough to maintain his strength must
deteriorate. A workman who is mis¬
used and who becomes more and more
dissatisfied with his job, takes less
and less interest in his work, and be¬
comes more and more inefficient. A
man will generally do the right thing
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1 by his job if the job is good enough
to make him desire to keep it.
5. Because it stands for shorter
hours of labor. The shorter the day
the more fit the workman for his
daily task and the better it will be
performed. More recreation. More
study. Greater intelligence. Greater
efficiency.
6. Because it is opposed to the low¬
ering of the efficiency of labor, the
confusion of industry and the restric-
tion of output by the wholesale em¬
ployment. of child labor and appren¬
tices. Let the men support the fami¬
lies, not the families support the men.
7. Because it is opposed to and will
levy a tax upon incompetent employ¬
ers. Be it known that some employ
ers are too lazy or incompetent to
make conditions so that the workmen
can do a day’s work. These frequent¬
ly accuse unions of restricting output.
The trade union does not believe in
’restricting the output, neither wiil it
allow the average man to be over¬
worked by pacemakers.
Undue strain, long continued, must
result in decreased efficiency if for no
other reason than by loss of health.
The trade union is in favor of ev¬
ery proposition that tends to increase
the knowledge, ability, skill or effi¬
ciency of labor and is unalterably op¬
posed to every deteriorating influence.
CHARLES L. BAINE.
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Here’s a toast to every man,
Of every race, and creed and clan,
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Who
By his manhood strong and free, 1 :
Digs from the earth, wrests from the sea,
Their treasures,
And whose arm and mind,
Leaves to his fellows—all mankind,
His heritage—his work.
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So, here’s to the man who digs 4
And here’s to the man who makes the mold,
And here’s to the man who mints the rim, i
And here’s to the man—good luck to him,
Who
By his strength of arm and mind,
Leaves his fellows—all mankind, i
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His heritage—his work.
Here’s a toast to the woman, too, 1
Man’s comrade stanch, man’s comrade true, !■
Who
By her womanhood soft and sweet,
Coaxed into light from its dark retreat,
Man’s treasures,
That his arm and mind
Might leave his fellows—all mankind,
His heritage—his work.
So, here’s to the man who digs the gold,
I Who fashions its shape into wealth untold,
With water or wine—filled to the brim
! We’ll drink this toast-—good’luck to him
Who k.
By his strength of arm and mind,
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Leaves to his fellows—all mankind,
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Labor’s Changing Ideal
t *- 0 RGANIZED labor’s ideal of a
short workday changes with
varying conditions. At one time
it was customary to work 12 or
more hours per day, but as civilization
advanced the working day has been
steadily reduced.
In reducing the hours of labor the
unions have been chiefly instrumental,
as they nave in various trades estab¬
lished a shorter workday and then fol¬
lowed it up by legislation wherever
they have been strong enough.
Though “eight hours’’ may be the
objective which organized labor now
seeks to accomplish, it does not fol-
low that eight hours is ideal, or that
it will be the goal of the future. The
short-hour movement rests funda-
mently upon necessity.
i “The constant improvement in ma-
I chinery and consequent displacement
of labor, together with the further dis-
placement of labor by the tendency
toward consolidation in all lines of in-
dustry, must ultimately compel us to
choose between three things: First,
we may shorten the hours of labor to
distribute opportunity for
or, second, we may tax property to
support the idle, or, third, we may
have revolution.”
This masterly and unaswerable sum¬
ming up of the underlying causes of
short-hour movement was by a
iHb -man, no less than the late
stalls*. B. Reed.
T 's that as long as machinery
’s continue so to improve
less hours are required
’abor, the ideal work-
La tire sorter and shorter,
tebS-sh . xpect to live with-
s that there are
mu out work,
ng ifdfk legislature. While it was pend¬
4 ing Oregon passed a law establishing
Labor who the holiday, the first state in the
ing Union to do this. New, York was the
Ter^sce V. a second. Lager states to the- number
was the largely instru \ * v'flASt 5 vof tTrirty-three passed similar laws,
Knights 1 i '* (y. v If*, v * r- ln 1^94 the day was recognized
year* ago, tel d f the national, govemmtent and is
respondent of b» by 'observed whenever It has juris¬
the. 4* now The <of the govern-
p&tMM diction. language
was a ujm Jft- n'ent resolution was to the effect that
New tegpyU v.i&t day employers and employes
said : mA -i that to discuss thetrr
rlggPlO % m mid get welfare, together That result has nott
all ->ral observable yet, buff
generally as
tract tAa, shall work up to It eventu-
?etti is we
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it would like to make the hours short
so that all will have to work.
It notes that banking and profes¬
sional men work five hours or less,,
and hopes to reach the same ideal:
some time.
To provide work for the idle affects'
the supply of and demand for labor
and favorably affects wages—as all-
short-hour trades well know—but the -
desire of the worker to have some
time for recreation and amusement
stimulates the demand for shocf° 4 L'
hours.
As our wage-earners become
educated they become more
mined to have more of the benefit of
labor-saving machinery.
They desire more leisure that their
industrial life may be prolonged.
They desire their fellow-men to be
employed.
They desire good wages and realize
that to preserve them their fellow-
men must be employed.
The late George E. McNeill, called
the father of the eight-hour move¬
ment, said “Eight hours for work,
eight hours for rest, eight hours for
what we will.”
This seems like an equitable divis¬
ion as long as eight hours is the ob¬
jective, but as invention follows inven¬
tion, it is likely the figures will have
to be revised.
The ideal short hour workday is the
shortest day possible that will give
good wages, and give the largest meas¬
ure of freedom, recreation and enjoy¬
ment to the worker, enabling him to
support his family, educate his chil¬
dren, and lay aside something for the
rainy day.
SAMUEL GOMPERS.