The Jersey City news., 1906-09-04
Two Mammoth Parades of
Organized W orkmen Wit
messed By Many Thou
sands In This City Yes
terday
oaEATEsTiM HISTORY OF CITY
CRAFTS ALLIED WITH BUILD
ING TRADES COUNCIL PA
RADE IN MORNING AND DRI-
pERs IN THE AFTERNOON
LATTER PICTURESQUE

All hats off to organized labor! Its
demonstration Tor rather demonstrationsl
yesterday in this city was by far the
greatest ever made in the history OF the
county. And at that but an ordinary
proportion of its. strength was mani-
Tested.
The first big parade was under the
auspices of the Building Trades Council
of Hudson County. That asone was an
eye opener to many of the oldest obsery-
ers of big parades. There We're betty
1900 and 5000 stalwart workmell III
line. Every union affiliated with the
council that passed the reviewing stand
in front of City Hall, where the parade
was reviewed by Mayor Pagan, Street
and Water Commissioners James S. No-
Ian, Thomas Rooney and George Berry
Alderman Neill, of the Fifth Ward; Gus
todian of the City Hall James Connolly,
and Police Captain Charles Cox, was
headed by military band OF drum corps.
The men were all uniformed in accordt
dance with the usual style adopted by
workmen in the professions of tht;r great
holiday-Labor Day-and within siken
banners announcing their craft and num-
beTs of the various locals, they. made a
most imposing demonstration. All
these unions that formed the morning pa
rade are affiliated with the Building
Trades Council, and the procession wss
made up entirely of men who build
houses -masons. carpenters, plumbers,
lathers, plasterers. stairbuiidfrs. paint-
ers, tin, sheet, iron and metal workers,
electricians, laberers, cts, etc The chow
ing made by the Carpenters and Joiners
was especially impressive. All the va
rious craftsmen represented unions from
almost every part of the county Jersey
City. Hobolsen. Bay nIe. North Hudson.
being largely represented. Every organ
zation in addition to their banners car
ried the American flag. Those who wit
messed procession declared it was the
biggest labor parade ever steen in the
city.
But in the afternoon came along an
other procession of organized labor. al
most, if not quite as large as that of the
morning under the auspices of the Build
ing Trades Council This one was COM
posed mainly of the various drivers as
sociation-truck drivers, coach drivers,
provision drivers, express drivers
fact, representing all organized men en-
gagged in traffic in which horses are the
propelling power This parade was even
more picturesques than the morning pa
rade. Following the marehers came
about thirty trucks decorated with green
boughs and flowers. They were almost
heaped with the little children of the
marchers. and were bound for the var
ious picnic resorts which each union or
several of them jointly were to engage
In festivities after the big parade.
There were no officials in front of the
City Hall to review them. The review
ing stand had been taken down. The
head of the parade turned into Mercer
street and was reviewed by Democratic
Leader Robert Davis, Archibald NJ.
Henry and number of other prominent
Democrats. The stoop, which will hold
half a hundred persons. was crowded.
There was intense enthusiasm on the
part of the paradefs and even the little
children in the flower -em bellished trucks
joined the continued cheering of the
Democratic leader as the trucks passed
in review
Many of the organizations of the
morning parade went to New York to
participate in the mammoth parade
there. Others went to Baldwin Park,
where the members met their wives and
children and spent the afternoon and eve
ming in athletic sports, dancing, etc
Several hundred members of the Uni
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Union No. affiliated with an organiza-
tion in New York left this city searly in
the morning to participate in the New
York parade
Everybody agreed that nothing in the
line of labor demonstration like that
of yesterday had eyer before been seen
in this city.