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Newspaper
Encampment Record
Location
Encampment, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1915
Page
3
Fragmentary poem-like prose references Labor Love and Learning as forces shaping life. The text hints at joy born from pain, and the enduring debt to a creator who notes their influence, though full thoughts remain unstated.
A polemical piece extols labor over war, arguing labor elevates morality, family life, and society while war brings poverty, destruction, and despair. It contrasts labor’s constructive deeds with war’s devastation, urging devotion to honest work as a path to virtue and faith.
A broad tribute to honest labor praising harvests, shops, cities, churches, schools, and livestock as testament to labor’s worth. It contrasts these gains with war’s toll across Europe, describing fallen soldiers, ruined homes, and national sacrifice, urging reverence for labor and its dignity.
Terence V. Powderly says Labor day had many fathers not a single founder. He recalls September 5, 1882 in New York City when Knights of Labor held a convention and a labor parade transformed that day into a public holiday akin to Independence Day. He notes witnesses including Hugh F. Pentecost and Richard Griffith on Union Square platform.
John Mitchell argues in Atlantic that individual contracts between powerful employers and a single worker bad for all. Wages, hours, and working conditions must be settled collectively by employers and workingmen in large enterprises to ensure lasting prosperity and health, instead of the weakened position of the lone laborer.
The piece notes Labor Day has become a celebration of sport and recreation with crowded baseball games trains beaches and theaters. It contrasts this with potential hardship if unemployment rose, pondering whether political crises hinge on Labor Day demonstrations. It highlights a nation enjoying prosperity despite concerns about idle workers and mine closures.
Paris reporters note a sweeping shift as Parisian women from Faubourg St Germain to shop girls take up war work. They join hospitals, open workshops, and embrace social endeavor, tea, and self denial. The piece honors Needham, recalls Warneford, and describes censorship and Allied newsroom links.
Dr. L G Hardman supervises prep work at his Nacoochee Valley farm for excavation of an historic Indian mound. Archeologists from a New York museum will dig to study the lives of the race that once inhabited the area. Utensils war gear and skeletons will be removed for research, then the mound rebuilt as it stands.
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