The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-15
NO TOPEKA CELEBRATION.
Local Labor Unions VIII Go to Law
renee September 5.

! There will be no Labor day celebra-
ton in Topeka on September 5. Instead
of that, all the union labor people of
| Topeka will go to Lawrence, where will
| take place one of the biggest labor day
celebrations in the history of that town.
Topeka will send a special trainload of
union labor people over the Union Pa
cific. Round trip tickets are being sold
for So cents, and the unions get % cents
on each ticket sold.
Special trains to Lawrence will also
| be run from Fort Scott. Leavenworth,
Atchison, st. Joe, and Kansas City.
Eugene v. Debs has been invited to
speak. Ed Hoch and Daniel M. Dale,
the rival candidates for governor of
Kansas will also speak. This will give
the event strong political flavor. Poll
tics are not relished especially by the
steered clear of entangling alliances,
but they did not arrange the pro-
gramme at Lawrence.
Topeka's barber baseball team will
play a match game of baseball on Nc
Cook field, the K. U. athletic grounds,
with the Lawrence Eagles. The Eagles
is a team composed of members of the
lodge of that name. The Topeka bar
beers have some strong ball players, and
will show the Lawrence crowd a hot
time.
The special train from Topeka will
probably leave here about $3.50, arriv-
ming of the programme at 10 a. m. The
headquarters for the celebration will be
at the city park. There will be con-
tinuous vaudeville entertainment at the
city park, and all manner of labor day
sports, from sack race to catching
creased pig.
In the afternoon at o'clock. the la
Dor day parade will take place. 1t will
form at the Eldridge House, and march
six blocks south to the park. The To-
peka union men will participate in this
parade. They expect to take some band
with them. Either MarshalPs or the
K. P. band will probably be secured for
1t is likely that the Topeka unions will
different trades, as is usually done in the
parades in Topeka. They win all go to-
gether, forming one large delegation rep
resenting the laboring men of Topeka.
After the parade disbands, those who
city city park pa XIV where err. there viii be prepared
accomm odations for the speakers and
their audience With both Hoch ana nd D Isn,e
of interest in the speechmaking.
Those who prefer something more ath,
letic however. will go to McCook held ana
In the evening there will be more. speak;
ing. If Eugene Debs can. come he will
be the chief orator. Debs is said to have
accepted an invitation and then the ex-
informed the Lawrence people that they
would be expected to contribute $500 to
people do not feel sure that Debs is worth
$500 to them. If they do not get Debs they
will have some other labor leader.
Most of the Topeka unions have already
voted to go to Lawrence with the excur-
sion, though there is some disturbance in
the union ranks just now on account of
the Santa Fe machinists' strike and some
impending difficulties in one or two other
trades unions. These slight disturbances
may cut down on the crowd somewhat,
but the Topeka union men believe that
they will have no difficulty in selling
enough tickets to insure a special train
to Lawrence. Not only are the union
laboring men expected to go on the trip,
but they will take their families.
This is the first time in good many
years that there has been no Labor day
celebration in Topeka The plans for the
celebration at Lawrence have been in pro-
cess of formation for a long time. To-
peka received its Invitation to participate
nearly four months ago