New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-07
SUN SHINES ON PARADE
UNIONS IN LONG MARCH.
Cheers for 10000 Men and Women
Workers.

United labor perfect weather for both marchers
and spectators. together with thousand women
scattered throughout the files Of tevarious diVsioh
MADE yesterdays Labor Day parade disuhc' SUI
cess and pleasure 10 the thousands " no iineu '
course in Fifth avenue from the Plaza TO WASH
3ngton Square
The tsamsters who were missing from the 'reeu-
lar Central Federated Unions parade OF last year
were feature Of to-day's march, and divided the
applause Of the spectators with the ieinihi"e O
cations and the ever popular Big Six
In al. more than sixteen thousand TnarcheIs pa
raded and contrary the usual event, the slArt
war made within few minutes Of the proposed
tirne-l0.SO O'Clock. Following their prompt begin
ming the unionists held almost absolute possessoh
Of the avenue from then until nearly o'clock
when the teamsters local. 654, the last body IN lihe
dishanded i'm Wavcrley place. There was no review
ing stand hut Grand Marshal Thomas j. curtis
Vice-president Of the Central Federated Unlon ana
lis aids lined up their horses beside the WASH
ington Arch 10 receive the salutes of the marchers
John Mitchell. Samuel Prince, James p. Holland
and Herman Robinson. who were scheduled 20 re-
view The parade took part in il instead and rode
by The mounted reviewers in a carriage at the head
of the Housesmiths Union The Women's Auxiliary
Of Typographical Union No. 8. with the Women's
Trade Union League, the latter including dress
makers. stenographers. hatmakers and garment
workers formed the feminine division of the parade
and were received with cheering all along the line
BIG SIX" CLAIMS DIR. COOK.
big Six distinguished itself by having its
leader little boy dressed in Uncle Sam costume
and carrying cotton-snow globe from which the
North Pole stuck out prominently, and a placard
below announced "Dr. Cook also a printer"
Magazine printers several subdivisions Of big
Six announced their identity by means of white
lettered blue umbrellas hearing the sentence We
don't buy the Deneator'' whatever magazine
they objected 10, and they marched they yelled
10 their friends on the curb, The umbrellas are
good for either rain or shine"
The Housesmiths', Bronze ErecteTs' and Bridge
mems Unions, which made UP the entire first division,
were CARRIED in gray shirts with brown campaign
hats. They the mark for the first section of the
parade which in the main sober colored
affair 10 dress. until well along in the second
division. when the badge. banner and regalia max
ers came along. They had enough gold lace and
trapfnss 10 make Spanish general envious and
The Actors Union. which followed in carriages, kept
Up the color tone credtably.
All the teansters. Of whom there were upward
az three thousand. red shirts. with white let
tiers. announcing their local numbers, and the
Building Material Drivers Local 654. who brought
up The OF the parade further distinguished
themselves by being the only union TO appear with
lfe and drum corps of their own Chauffeurs and
Cab Drivers Local 267. came along in taXica bs
81 various colors, and close race with the
Actors Union for the most aristocratc turnout.
UNION WOMEN GIVE ADVICE.
The TWO women's organizations went over the
with notices. advising the union TO look well
20 the women's auxiliaries. 10 spend union
wages for union products" one sign put it.
Grand Marshal Curtis expressed the opinion
after the parade that il the most brilliant
Labor Day parade he had ever seen. and that was
evidently the opinion Of the friendly crowds that
cheered the labor men from the plaza to the
square. Twenty-Five thousand the estimate
Of The number Of marchers made by the officials Of
1he Central Federated Union who reviewed il from
horseback hut the three-hour stretch of sitting
stifiy their steeds NAV have led them TO think
more generously OF the number concerned than an
actual count justified.
FTfty-odd bands enlirened the marchers and spec
marshal said that there wasn't instrument in
any Of them, down to the sticks of the snare
drums nor in fact an item Of any kind in the
whole parade that wasn't strictly union made"
Chief Inspector sohmiltberseT took personal
SQUARE " While Tnspectors Wash and TITUS looked
after the upper sections. The marchers were dis
he line Of march south Of the arch every fifteen
minutes the police avoided congestion.
HARLEM HAS ITS OWN PARADE.
FIarlem's Broadway. otherwise l25th street.
treated A miniature Labor Day parade yester-
day also, although the marchers didn't carry union
banners. II was a small affair consisting of forty
.vvo veterans OF the Volunteer Firemens Associa-
hon. with their old style hand engine and headed
by a brass band. They marched from Third avenue
and 18th street Eighth avenue and thence north
o 18th street Thei. old equipment OF red helmets
and shirts. blue trousers canteens. caps. and
buckets served them parade dress, and the old
men who went Of active fire fighting service
n 1865 were che-red by crowds all along the line
4 march, They finished their parade with festi-
Fal dinner the Manhattan Casino
John Sandgren, delegate from the Swedish
,.ands Organization OF Stockholm. addressed about
.1yo hundred OF the members OF The Women's Trade
Union League after they had taken part in the
labor Day parade The meeting held at the
aeadausrters Of the league and was attended by
Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes Mrs Harriet Stanton
8latoh and Mr.. Charlotte Perkins Gilman among
others. Nj. Sanderen told OF the recent Swedish
nrike and Mrs. Gilman read a lesson from the
Kay The spectators 81 the parade had COM