Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-31
UNIONS ARE READY
FOR CELEBRATION
Thirteen Organizations Will Be in
Parade in Pasadena
Labor Day
SPORT PROGRAM IS ARRANGED
Baseball Game at Playground to
Follow March, After Which
Games Will EnSue

PASADENA, Aug. 30-Arrangements
bration in this city next Monday are
complete. Thirteen local unions will
enter the parade, which starts at
o'clock. Their positions as drawn by
lot will be as follows: Plasterers,
painters, bricklayers, outside electrical
workers, stonemasons, inside electrical
workers, carpenters, Woman's Union
Label league, plumbers, BARRIERS, ma
chinists and molders, printers and
fathers. Several unions will have
floats.
The line of march will cover the
principal downtown streets and the
parade will disband at Carmelita play
grounds, where a baseball game be-
tween teams representing the plumb
ers and plasterers will be played. Fol-
lowing the baseball game time will be
taken for luncheon, and a program of
sports will be held at Tournament park
in the afternoon, beginning at o'clock.
PROGRAM OF SPORTS
Nearly a hundred prizes have been
contributed by Pasadena merchants
to be awarded to the winners of the
various events. The program of sports
scheduled for the afternoon at Tour
nament park Is as follows:
Fifty-yard dash, boys under IA
years; three-mile motorcycle race for
stock machines three and half horse
power or under; fiftyyard dash, girls
under IA years; women's nail driving
contest; five-mile motorcycle race for
stripped stock machines, four horse
power or under, single cylinder; 100
yard dash for union men; fifty-yard
dash for women; six-mile motorcycle
race, twin cylinder machines, six
horsepower or under; shoe race for
boys under 16 years; relay race for
teams Of four men each from local
unions; ten-mile motorcycle race, free
for-all, seven horsepower or under;
standing broad jump for union men;
women's ball throwing contest; three
legged race, open to all; twenty-five
mile motorcycle race, free-for-all, any
horsepower.
NOVELTY MOTOR RACE
The last event on the program at
Tournament park will be "a two-mile
novelty race, for motorcycles. At the
end of the first half mile each rider
will be required to dismount and eat
a pie without using his hands or re-
ceiving assistance from anyone. At
the end of the second half mile he will
stop and drink pint of water from a
bottle. On the finish of the third lap
he will be required to dismount at
least 100 feet from the tape and push
his motorcycle across the line, when
he will remount and continue around
the track for the final half mile.
The prizes for the days events will
be on display until after Labor day at
SO North Fair Oaks avenue. An In
novation this year will be the award
ing of six prizes for the best walters
at the annual dance, three for men
and three for women. The dance will
begin at $3.50 o'clock on on the even
ing of Labor day in Woodman hall.
Officers of the Pasadena Labor Day
association announce that admission to
the baseball game in the forenoon and
to the sports at Tournament park In
the afternoon will be free and that all
workingmen and their friends are ex-
pected to attend, whether connected
with organized labor or not.
SPECIAL LABOR SERMON
A special sermon for the members
of unions, their families and friends
will be delivered next Sunday evening
at the First Congregational church
by the Rev. Daniel r. Fox. The serv-
ices will begin at 1880 o'clock and
members of organized labor with their
families will meet at Carpenters union
hall, Raymond avenue and Colorado
street, promptly at Z o'clock to pro
ceed to the church in a body. The
Labor Sunday sermons are said to be
a fixed event in Pasadena. 1t is
stated that several ministers were
planning to invite the labor unions to
attend their respective churches on La
Dor Sunday, but that 1t was decided
best to select one place each year for
the services and rotate in order that
the organized worlSingmen could at
fayd In hadU