Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-05

.DEBs SPECIAL IN AFTERNOON
1t Will Arrive In Time for Socialist
10 Address His Adhercnts at
Open Air Meeting.

Monday will be public holiday with
all stores. banks and offices closed.
From earliest daylight until the last
train comes home from Lagoon in the
night, the hosts of labor are to own
Salt Lake and environs. Although
Eugene V. Debs will be here and
will address an afternoon audience
at Liberty park. his coming has no con-
ncction with the Labor Day program
of the organizations, it being wholly
under the auspices of the local Social
lists.
Labor Day this year brings out 40
allied trades unions, who Will march
in four divisions in parade. Monday
morning, to be followed by an after
noon program of sports at Lagoon and
an evening program of dancing.
With a. f. Harvey as his chief aide,
Sidney ChalSer will be grand marshal
of the morning parade. 1t will form at
Federation of Labor hall, the first two
divisions being on the north and south
side Of Fourth South, headed towards
Main. and the third and fourth di-
visions on State, the third division
south of Fourth South, headed north,
and the fourth forming north of Fourth
South, headed south.
IN FOUR DIVISIONS.
IN the frst division will appear the
machinists, the boiler makers the
blacksmiths the iron holders the car
rage and wagon workers, the horse
shoers, the railroad carmen,thc switch
men, the cigar makers. the leather
worke,s, and the federated musicians
In the second division, whose chief Is
f. w. Butler, will be the car mems
band the strcetcar employees, the re-
tail clerks, the typographical union.
pressmens union stereotypers, book
binders, mailers brewers, beer bottlers,
beer wagon drivers, bartenders, stage
employees. and BARRIERS.
The third division will include. under
5. w. Sawyer, the structural iron work
ers, the hosting and stationary en-
gineers, the sheet and metal workers,
the plumbers and gas filters, the brick
layers, stone maSons, stone cutters,
and building laborers
In the final division, under S. A.
Birkhaus will be Helds band, the paint
ers and decorators, the electrical work.
ers, brotherhood OF carpenters, brother
hood of mill men, amalgalnated car
penters, team owners, team drivers
fire department.
The line of march will be UP Main
street to the monument, countermarch-
ing to Fifth South, turning again to
countermarch to Fourth South, and
then east to Federation hall.
THE DEE3S SPECIAL.
Eugene V. Debs. the socialist presi-
dental candidate, will arrive in Salt
Lake from Ogden early in the after
noon and viii deliver speech at Lib
erty park at $3.50 o'clock.
The near arrival of the Red Special"
lends interest to the reason for the
adoption of the red color by the So
cialists. AS given officially it follows:
This does not mean blood shed"
as their traducers would have it, but
does mean ''red-blood," the one thing
common to all men of all colors and of
all nationalities. Mankind may differ
in color; may be red, yellow, brown.
white or black; may have hair or wool
on their heads, but the color Of the
blood of all races is the same. AS the
Bible says, God made OF one blood.
all the nations of the earth" hence the
red flag stands for the unity of the
race. international brotherhood, the
F'atherhood of God and the brother
hood of men"