The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-30
RIVAL PICNICS.
Dispute Between Promoters of
Labor Day Celebrations.
ModOcs Claim That They Have
Played Fair.
SHAFFER'S STATEMENT
Says the Picnic for LabOrers is
at VineW0od.
Says There Are Kickers in
Trades Council.
SHAFFER'S STATEMENT

"some people think" said Council
man Joseph Griley, who is also a prom
inent member of the Adodoc club, that
the Modocs and Mrshalls band have
stolen a march on the Trades and Labor
Council by arranging for a picnic and
celebration of Labor day at Garfield
park People have come to me and said,
It was a dirty Trick you folks played
by getting the park ahead of the labor
ing men,
Now the fact is" continued Mr..
Griley, that I. as a member of a COM
mittee of the Modocs, was trying to get
up a joint celebration of Labor day BY
the Trades and Labor Council and the
Modoc club. Part of the assembly
wanted to have a picnic, part wanted a
parade, and part wanted to go to St
Joe for the big celebration there. Final
" they had a meeting and decided to go
to St. Joe.
That left Topeka without any cele-
bratiOn at all of Labor day All the
stores and offices would be closed, and
nothing going on for people to attend.
So [ told Mr.. Shamer, secretary of the
Trades Council that ] would try to get
Marshalls band and the Modocs to go
in together and get up celebration,
and he said that was a good scheme. So
I made the necessary arrangements
with John Marshall, and we went ahead
with our plans.
about this time the Trades Council
found that it could not get the railroad
rates it expected to get for the trip to
St. Joseph, and it decided to give up the
whole thing. Then some one wanted to
have a picnic, and from that started the
plan to go to Vinewood park. The
Modocs and Marshalls band don't want
any fight with the Trades Council, but
we do not like to have people think
that we were trying to take any IN
fair advantage of the labOring people
We can't change our plans now, be-
cause the Trades Council objects to the
ten cent admission fee which we are
charging, and I don't suppose we can
give a free show because we are at a
great deal of expense to provide the
attractions which we offer. Besides,
the members of MarshalPs band are
away now. and no change could be
made in their absence.
Secretary Shaffer, of the Trades COun-
ell, affirmed all that Mr. Griley said
about the arrangements for the picnic
at Garfield park and the trip to St.
4 do not think that the Aodocs. or
Marshalls band are to blame for what
they have done" said Mr.. Shaffer. I'VE
had to give up our St. Joe trip because
the frip instead az 81 q AS a matter Of
fact however, there is but one Labor day
WOOD narl[' The celebration at the other
park has nothing to do whatever with
the laboring men Of the city
gies in every organization remarked Mr..
Shaffer. ''and we have some in the Trades
council. There are several opposing fac
lions in the council and If we cztuld make
this fighting among ourselves stop, we
would get along great deal better.
The result Of this fight will be that
there Will not be a large attendance at
either picnic. There will only be a few
people at Vinewood and only a few at
Garfield We should have gotten together
on our picnic at the start, and all this
trouble would have been avoided.
Some of the members of our OrganiZd-
ton are opposed to charging any admis-
sion and therefore we could not agree to
go in on the Garfield park picnic under
It's present scheme of charging admission
For my part, however, l can't see why it
isn't all right to charge ten cents admis-
sion. We have to get money from some
where to pay our expenses, and why not
from admissions as well as anything
else? OF course it is all right in theory
to have everything free on Labor day.
but it takes money to get up pleasant
celebration. and it is only question Of
how and where we viii get it.
The Vinewood park railway is planning
to make a special rate of IS cents for the
round trip to VinewOpd park If it were
rat for this it would cost % cents to go
to VineWood park and 20 cents to go to
Garfield park. The la-boring man would
have only to choose whether he paid his
money TO the railway company or to Mar
shalis band and the NOdOcs-
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Dr.