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Digitized from Box 1 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
IBARGOED FOR RELEASE UNTIL
AUGUST 31, 1974
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
ON THE OCCASION OF LABOR DAY, 1974
I salute the working men and women of America on the 80th anniversary of
labor's special day. Their strength of mind, heart, and hand continues to
guide our destiny.
As American society has changed in modern times, the role and needs of
labor have also changed. A need for organization arose and was filled.
Today, therefore, we salute not only the 93 million men and women in the
labor forces, but also the organizations which represent labor so well. The
grals of those organizations were eloquently summed up by Samuel Gompers
eighty-one years ago, when he said that labor wants "more school houses and
less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more
constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and
less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better
natures
"
The organized efforts of America's working men and women have been
instrumental in helping move this Nation a long way towards those goals.
Today, the Nation needs their support in a new struggle for productivity
for more purchasing power and less inflation. I am confident that the men
and women of the American labor movement know that the struggle against
inflation is a joint venture by all segments of the American people -- and
that they will do their part.
On this Labor Day, I say to my fellow Americans who have provided us with
so much in the past and from whom we expect even more in the future --
"thank you. 11
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