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Chronicle (Levin), 1 September 1949, Page 5

Received Thursday, 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. The increasing importance to United States Labour of foreign relations and the vital contribution being made by unions to the nation's international programmes are cited in a special Labour Day statement by Presfdent Truman. The day — an annual national holiday — will be celebrated this year on September 5. "This is the fifth year in which it has been my privilege to call upon the American people to observe Labour Day — a day dedicated to the workers who have heiped so much in the advance of our country to the position of responsibility and opportunity it occ.upies in the world today," said President Truman. "The American worker enjoys an economic, political and social status soli'dly established on democratic principles and unequalled elsewhere in the world. From time to time labour has suffered setbacks, but on each such occasion its essential strength has ass-rted itself and progress has been resumed, and as labour has progressed, so has the nation. "Labour Day, however, is more than a holiday for celebrating the achieverhents of the worker and extolling his contribution to the forwTard march of our economy. This year, more than ever, it is time for a sober evaluation of the problems that labour, togetlier with all other groups in our country, faces in our complex world, and of our mutual responsibility in meeting them."