WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:16.300 The divine power of God, castes of hell, safety, and all the evil spirits who wander throughout 2 00:00:16.300 --> 00:00:19.700 the world, singing the Lord of souls, amen. 3 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.060 Amen. 4 00:01:17.420 --> 00:01:18.820 Amen. 5 00:01:58.160 --> 00:01:59.560 Amen. 6 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:00.020 Amen. 7 00:02:58.580 --> 00:02:59.980 Amen. 8 00:03:28.540 --> 00:03:29.940 Amen. 9 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:30.660 Amen. 10 00:03:30.660 --> 00:03:30.740 Amen. 11 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:31.240 12 00:03:33.820 --> 00:03:33.840 Amen. 13 00:03:36.220 --> 00:03:36.240 Amen. 14 00:04:23.900 --> 00:04:25.300 Amen. 15 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:30.800 Amen. 16 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:27.300 Amen. 17 00:05:30.660 --> 00:05:30.660 18 00:06:21.940 --> 00:06:23.340 Amen. 19 00:06:51.980 --> 00:06:53.380 Amen. 20 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:30.640 Amen. 21 00:07:30.660 --> 00:07:30.660 22 00:08:00.660 --> 00:08:00.660 23 00:08:30.660 --> 00:08:30.660 24 00:08:30.680 --> 00:08:30.680 25 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:36.080 26 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:37.360 27 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:37.360 28 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:37.360 29 00:08:46.140 --> 00:08:46.140 30 00:08:50.260 --> 00:08:51.660 Amen. 31 00:08:53.540 --> 00:08:56.340 Forward march. 32 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:28.420 Holy night. Will we ever... 33 00:09:28.420 --> 00:09:34.880 This is some calls that I've received. I thought that our parade was a reaction to the Nazi presence in the park this year. 34 00:09:34.940 --> 00:09:36.380 And that's totally incorrect. 35 00:09:51.760 --> 00:09:58.660 For this entire... 36 00:10:16.400 --> 00:10:22.160 ...to a cataclysmic decision. The only way to get Dorothy back to Kansas is for me to take her there myself. 37 00:10:23.420 --> 00:10:26.720 Oh, will you? Caught you? Oh! 38 00:10:27.800 --> 00:10:30.120 Oh, but are you a clever enough wizard to manage it? 39 00:10:30.380 --> 00:10:36.040 Child, you cut me to the quick. I'm an old Kansas man myself. Born and bred in... 40 00:10:36.040 --> 00:10:40.760 Think to yourself. There's no place like home. 41 00:10:41.580 --> 00:10:44.160 There's no place like home. 42 00:10:45.060 --> 00:10:47.780 There's no place like home. 43 00:10:47.780 --> 00:10:51.880 There's no place like home. 44 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:40.340 ...very, very proud of Bill Lee today for starting or rejuvenating this parade after 40 years. 45 00:11:40.920 --> 00:11:48.740 America. The names of Bill Lee, Eddie Brabeck, Tom Mayer... 46 00:11:48.740 --> 00:11:51.040 I don't want to skip anybody once I start. 47 00:11:52.040 --> 00:11:57.220 Our great Teamster leader over there, Louis Pike, have written a history in the city. 48 00:11:57.540 --> 00:12:05.380 And as you look across the city, if it weren't for the great labor movement in Chicago, I don't believe this city would be what it is today. 49 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:17.380 I hope you'll come over to the Dates of Chicago next. And once again, one big thank you to Mr. Labor, Mr. William Lee. Let's hear it! 50 00:12:18.560 --> 00:12:23.400 We showed you, we tried to show you just what we do and how we do it and so forth. 51 00:12:23.700 --> 00:12:29.500 And to all of you, to Eddie Brabeck, Louis Pike, Tom Mayer, all of the fellows that are in the... 52 00:12:29.500 --> 00:12:30.080 May I assist? 53 00:13:29.500 --> 00:13:30.940 ...over the fire center. 54 00:13:39.020 --> 00:13:56.740 Okay, if you want in five minutes, I will... 55 00:13:59.500 --> 00:13:59.500 56 00:14:10.340 --> 00:14:13.420 See you later. 57 00:15:05.300 --> 00:15:07.860 in clarified 58 00:15:08.700 --> 00:15:13.460 Well, we're interested in it because it's Labour Day and because one of the questions 59 00:15:13.460 --> 00:15:18.620 we're now facing within the Alliance, it seems quite clear, is where are the jobs going to 60 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:20.220 be kept, for example in steel? 61 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:23.680 Are we going to have jobs in Scotland or are you going to have your jobs here? 62 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.460 And that's now developing to the agricultural sector, as far as we perceive it over there. 63 00:15:29.180 --> 00:15:34.900 And we're over here to try and find out how much protectionism America's going to go in 64 00:15:34.900 --> 00:15:36.320 for within the Alliance. 65 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:37.840 Thank you very much. 66 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 67 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 68 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 69 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 70 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 71 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 72 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 73 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 74 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 75 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 76 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 77 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 78 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:37.840 79 00:16:54.300 --> 00:16:59.540 The first movement for human rights and human dignity at the bargaining table. 80 00:16:59.780 --> 00:17:05.060 We're of course enormously disappointed that the Hunter crushed those high hopes almost 81 00:17:05.060 --> 00:17:07.140 a year ago on December the 13th. 82 00:17:07.140 --> 00:17:12.880 We are hopeful that the American continued pressure on Poland will lift the military 83 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:17.620 Hunter and Lech Walesa will go back to his organizing activities because that's the only 84 00:17:17.620 --> 00:17:19.780 way to solve the problems at the bargaining table. 85 00:17:20.860 --> 00:17:23.020 And the connection with today's Labour Day in America. 86 00:17:23.460 --> 00:17:29.000 Well, Labour Day in America today is a tribute to solidarity as well as the American working 87 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:29.440 people. 88 00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:36.200 We have one goal in common, that's to give the working people of America, get their greatest 89 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.140 share of this wonderful democracy at the bargaining table. 90 00:17:39.200 --> 00:17:40.940 That's what Labour Day means to all of us. 91 00:18:00.080 --> 00:18:04.860 Well I'm here because the members of the America First Committee, which I'm the national chairman, 92 00:18:05.780 --> 00:18:11.280 we have a number of people here that are of Polish extraction and other Eastern European 93 00:18:11.280 --> 00:18:12.100 elements like this. 94 00:18:12.180 --> 00:18:16.020 And we feel very strongly about this and a lot of these people could not make it. 95 00:18:16.220 --> 00:18:20.040 I've taken time off in my job today to come down here and represent these people in our 96 00:18:20.040 --> 00:18:24.600 organization to back up the people of Poland in their fight for freedom against Soviet 97 00:18:24.600 --> 00:18:25.740 communist domination. 98 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:33.560 I just want the government of the state of Illinois to be open and honest and friendly 99 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:41.860 and above all a government that works for and on behalf of its people. 100 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:47.320 Welcome to the first building of the 21st century. 101 00:26:55.980 --> 00:26:56.580 Good evening. 102 00:27:02.120 --> 00:27:07.320 Uniting men in peace and freedom and helping to fulfill the vision of your inspired seers 103 00:27:07.320 --> 00:27:14.980 who proclaimed that justice well up as the waters and righteousness as a mighty stream. 104 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:16.600 Amen. 105 00:27:16.600 --> 00:27:23.360 Governor Thompson, who invited me to write this poem, has a few ideas that are similar 106 00:27:23.360 --> 00:27:29.540 to my own, as you will presently know when you hear this poem. 107 00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:54.180 I've chosen for the title of this poem something very exciting. 108 00:27:54.760 --> 00:27:55.600 Building. 109 00:27:55.600 --> 00:28:04.100 When I see a brave building straining high and higher. 110 00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:16.660 I think of the hand that put that strength together. 111 00:28:17.520 --> 00:28:20.220 The little soft hand. 112 00:28:20.500 --> 00:28:29.380 Hand coming away from hope to take a challenge and to mold this definition. 113 00:28:30.740 --> 00:28:40.800 Amazingly, men and women work with design and judgment, steel and glass. 114 00:28:41.820 --> 00:28:46.940 Here is Sam to enact this announcement. 115 00:28:48.420 --> 00:28:51.820 Who can construct such miracles? 116 00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:57.460 Can enact any consolidation, any fusion. 117 00:28:58.340 --> 00:29:02.760 All little people opening out of themselves. 118 00:29:03.520 --> 00:29:14.340 Forging the human spirit that can outwit the building boasting in the city world. 119 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:27.700 Lord, he began to cry. 120 00:29:28.860 --> 00:29:30.120 Jesus said what? 121 00:29:30.500 --> 00:29:32.040 Jesus spoke the word. 122 00:29:32.340 --> 00:29:34.160 Your faith has made your home. 123 00:29:34.560 --> 00:29:36.200 By the mayors we see the sight. 124 00:29:36.620 --> 00:29:38.380 He praised him for the light. 125 00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:42.520 For Jesus is the light in the darkness. 126 00:29:44.120 --> 00:29:47.020 He'll save your senses though. 127 00:29:54.500 --> 00:30:05.620 With your loving care, those who provide leadership among our people, give them the gifts of an understanding heart, creativity, and prudence. 128 00:30:06.240 --> 00:30:11.340 We come to you for blessing with confidence that you will hear our prayers. 129 00:30:11.340 --> 00:30:12.160 Amen. 130 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:21.060 Men shared a dream and let's not forget them and the role they played on this day of celebration. 131 00:30:25.120 --> 00:30:30.080 Among them are the Reverend John Hatchett, President of the Coalition for United Community Labor Force. 132 00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:33.380 Jim Compton, Executive Director of the United Community Labor Force. 133 00:30:34.300 --> 00:30:37.380 Robert Winbush with the Urban Community Department Corporation. 134 00:30:38.260 --> 00:30:41.360 And members of the Coalition for United Community Action. 135 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:44.260 And the support of the Contractors Association. 136 00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:49.760 And Tom Nate's extraordinary effort by the Burnham Company. 137 00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:53.260 A light atrium that has been covered for years. 138 00:30:54.320 --> 00:30:55.900 Ideas from our past. 139 00:30:57.020 --> 00:31:04.320 Talking about the General Assembly, let me add a personal note of thanks to the support of appropriations as it took shape. 140 00:31:05.480 --> 00:31:12.860 For many who have never seen the interior of this building or the exterior from a different view, thought why are they doing this? 141 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.260 And asked questions. And that was appropriate. 142 00:31:15.580 --> 00:31:21.680 The General Assembly of the State of Illinois in 1985 is a wise leadership and a courageous leadership. 143 00:31:22.380 --> 00:31:27.020 Working with me to move this state forward all across several fronts. 144 00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:29.980 To make Illinois the greatest of the states. 145 00:31:30.860 --> 00:31:32.320 To revitalize our economy. 146 00:31:32.540 --> 00:31:33.400 To build Illinois. 147 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:35.240 To restore our education. 148 00:31:35.920 --> 00:31:39.620 To provide for the future life of our children and their grandchildren. 149 00:31:39.780 --> 00:31:45.760 And therefore it is not surprising that they would support with vigorous effort. 150 00:31:46.320 --> 00:31:49.900 Something that would be new and good and different for the people of Illinois. 151 00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:52.360 They have my personal thanks. 152 00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:55.160 They ought to have your thanks as well. 153 00:32:00.020 --> 00:32:12.740 Because of his genius, because of his boldness and his daring, it wasn't all that hard to accept something that was extraordinary for the people of Illinois. 154 00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:16.400 But then we in Illinois have a record of being first.