The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
LABOR'S ANNUAL OUTING
Widespread Observation of the
Wage Farmers Holiday.
How District WorkinEmen VIII Gel
ebrate-kniEhts of Labor Mt Mar
shall HILL - Trades unionists Mt
River Yiew-Games and Sports Ar
ranged by the Two Organizations.

River view-Games and Sports AR
ranged by the Two Organization,
In forty-fve States and the District O
Columbia the first Mohday in September
/. known as Labor Day and is recognized a
legal holiday. 1t l., the wage earners
national holiday, and even in places wher
! it has not been made legal holiday b
, law, wherever there is labor organiza
, tion the occasion is observed by its mem
, bers. The first State in the Union to rec
ognize the demands of organized labor b.
legalizing the first Monday in September
of each year as a general holiday was New
York. where in 1887 it was by law made
holiday. Following the example set b,
the Legislature of New York, other States
passed laws recognizing the day as gen
eral holiday, and in 1894 Congress enacted
law making the first Monday in Septem-
Der of each year a holiday in the District
of Columbia
Five years before legislative action was
taken in New York legalizing the first
Monday in September as general holiday
the day was observed by the members OF
organized labor in that State. The first
| time the occasion was observed by organ
lied labor was in 1882, when in New York
it was celebrated by a street parade by
the organizations affiliated with the Cen
trail Labor Union.
From that time till the present the first
Monday in September has been celebrated
| by the toilers OF all trades and crafts
throughout the country. Coming as it does
! always on Monday, people other than the
| wage Garner have come to recognize LABOR
Day as general holiday, and an. effort
! mas been made in several large cities to
make the Saturday preceding 1t half
! holiday. Since the first Monday in Sep
/ TENDER was made general holiday in the
District the occasion has always been OBJ
served by the members of local organized
labor. In September, 1894. the first time
the occasion was generally observed in
| the District, all branches of organized la
Dor, without regard to their national affil-
iation, Joined in the celebration in great
street parade, in which nearly 1000 of the
wage-earners of the District participated.
Soon after that, however. differences arose
between the Trades Unionists and the
knights of Labor. and since then the local
organizations affiliated with these two
organizations have celebrated Labor Day
separately.
Street Parade Abandoned.
In 1895 both the Knights of Labor and
the Trades Unionists made street parades
the features of their observance of Labor
Day but the result was not satisfactory
TO either and has been discontinued In
that year, after the street parades. tbs
members OF the organizations allied with
either faction with the members OF their
families and their friends spent the latter
part of the day and evening at pleasure
resorts, the Knights going to Marshall
Hall and the Trades Unionsts to River
View. Since that year none of the local
organizations have made street parades
part OF the celebration of Labor Day, but
instead excursions have been organized by
each faction and the day spent at Marshall
Hall and River View, the Knights at the
former and the Trades Unionists at the
latter resort.
At these resorts the members of organ
lied labor and their friends, making great
outing parties sggregsting thousands, en-
10y with real pleasure the working
MANS national holiday 1t liz the one day
of all the year that the wage Garner calls
his own the one day of est which he has
gained for himself and Others, as a mem
Der of organized labor. Those who are ac- |
tive in providing for the entertainment |
and rest of the others, however, seldom |
enjoy quiet and cessation from work on /
Labor Day. This is particularly true OF I
the members of the committees of the la.
Dor organizations who undertake to pro-
vide amusement and entertainment for the |
members Of their organizations on such /
occasions. For more than two months the !
committees in charge of the observance OF
Labor Day by the Knights of Labor. the
Central Labor Union. and the Building
Trades Council have been busy arranging
details Of the exercises which will be held
at Marshall Hall and River View The
of athletic games and other
which will lake place have
been practically completed but it is quite
likely that there Will be some changes
in the way of omissions and additions to
the programmes at the final meetings of
the committees this week. However that
may be the programmes of exercises at both
Marshall Hall and River View are such as
to guarantee that those who Join the mem
bers of organized labor in the District in
their celebration will spend most enjoy
able day. The athletic games will be be-
gun a both resorts with games of baseball
teams composed of members of
labor. Al River View the game
will be between a team representing the
Union anC picked nine and
At Marshall Hall with a game between
teams from Paperhangers' Assembly No.
y and Carpenters Assembly No. 174S. X.
If L.
During ire day there will be dancing at
he pavlions and In the evening there will
De fancy dancing by girls under fourteen
Years of age and cake walks by profession
lis specially engaged for the occasion.
Amusements ut Marshall HALL
Among the other numbers arranged by
he committee in charge OF the celebration
Inder the auspices of District Assembly
No. &C, X OF L., are: Chasing the pig.
,pen to all; wheelbarrow race. open to all;
ub race, open to all: contests in bowling.
pen; sack races. open; one-leg race fancy
lancing, prize Waiting, the rooster dance,
md cake walk. ,
The committee has arranged that the
members of Assembly No 66, the members
Il their families. and friends shall spend
he day at Marshall Hall, ald it is expect | !
d that the first of the athletic games, the
aseball will take place Immediately after /
he arrival of the first boat from the city {
I the Hall. 3
The Labor Day exercises are in charge J
4 the following general committee and /
ub-committees:
Arrangement Thomas P. O'Dea, Chairman; r. '
!. smoot, Secretary; J. T. Doyle, Treasurer; J.
:. O'Meara James Gallagher c. NJ Bowers. :
homas Sheehan, James Caldwell, ". f. Carr
obert Joncher William Long, J. Bussey, H. j.
'clls, g. ". Enrich, j. :. Dorsey, 7. L. OBrien
. :. Martin, J. ILasskamP, A. NJ; Lawson, W
Thomas Sheehan, John Hass- ,
amp, James Gallagher, and W. Leeke; athletic
ames-C W Enrich. H.. +. Wells. @ NJ. t
'Brien. James Caldwell, and j. s. Dorsey:
lncing-A. 2 Maddox, r. u. smoot. }. 7. !