ALL READY FOR PITTSBURGH'S
GREATEST OBSERVANCE OF LABOR DAY
Parade, Oratory, Sports and Fireworks
Fill in the Day - Mayor Jones of Toledo and W. D. Mahon, the
Principal Speakers
"Final arrangements for what promised
to be the largest Labor Day demonstration ever held in Pittsburgh
were completed last night in connection with a meeting of the United
Labor League. The day will be given up to a large parade, which will
start at 11 o'clock this morning, speaking at Schenley Park as soon as
the parade reaches there and continuing until 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, when the program of sports will be taken up, and in the
evening a large display of fireworks in the park.
Leading the parade will be a squad of
mounted police in command of Acting Superintendent of Police Sol
Coulson. Following will be the speakers of the day in a carriage and
in a tally ho the committee of arrangements including the following:
Thomas Grundy, chairman; John Fernau, master workman of District
Assembly No. 3, Knights of Labor; John A. Connor, member of the
general executive board of the Knights of Labor; R. S. Reeves of the
general executive committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employes; Alfred Madden of the carpenters; P. W. Gallagher,
secretary of the United Labor League of Western, Pennsylvania; Calvin
Wyatt of the printers; John Mallot of the Sheet Metal Workers
association.
Also on the Committee
Other members of the committee are George
Jones of the stonemasons, who is chief marshal; John S. Nash,
president of the United Labor League, marshal of the first parade
division; John G. Harris, secretary of Salespeople's assembly 4907,
Knights of Labor, marshal of the second division, and J. W. Pryde,
secretary of the Structural Iron Workers' Association of America, who
is an aid on the staff of the chief marshal.
All trades represented in the parade will
in some way carry the marks of their vocation. Stonemasons will be
engaged in dressing stone on a flat. Recently organized bottlers will
be filling pint and quart bottles with amber fluids. Metal workers
will carry and umbrella and wear tin hats. The salespeople will ride
in carriages and tally-hos. The United Cigarmakers League, L.A. 1374,
K. of L., will also ride in carriages and park traps and will float
their union label on banners. Members of the Pittsburgh organization
of bricklayers will ride in a tally-ho.
Order of the Parade
Headquarters will be at the Knights of
Labor Hall. The parade will move along Smithfield street, from Water
street then on Fifth avenue, Liberty avenue Seventh avenue, Grant
street, D and Forbes street to Diamond street, Forbes street to
Schenley park...."
(MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3,
1900 - PITTSBURGH COMMERCIAL GAZETTE) |
