The San Francisco call., 1910-09-06
STOCKTON LABOR
IN GREAT PARADE
Largest Demonstration OF the
Kind Ever Witnessed in
San Joaquin Valley
Especial Dispatch to The Call

STOCKTON. Sept. 5.-Tbe Labor day
parade today was the largest ever
witnessed in this city. The business
houses closed for the day and the
streets were crowded with epopie-
w. s. Luard, grand marshal. led the
parade. The Stockton union band was
followed by carriages containing
Frank MCGOWAN, orator of the day;
Tom Bone, speaker of the day; j. w.
Bibby, president OF the day.
A. j. Ingals and C. S. Estrada were
the division marshal and aid.
The members of the carpenters union
No. 266 made the largest turnout. there
being $50 odd in line. Their section
was two blocks long and the men
marched four abreast
Following the carpenters were the
painters. wearing white hats, shirts
and trousers and carrying parasols OF
the same color. The painters had an
attractive float containing % boys and
girls and bearing the inscription.
Guests of 274. The Childrens home.
The little tots were inmates of the
home
The steam engineers. carpet me-
chanics' union No. 50 and the lumber
handlers followed in the parade. Mem
bers of hod carriers union No. 20 wore
blue shirts and white trousers.
The inside wire workers union wore
blue shirts, and their banner was
adorned with electric lights. The
lathers followed them.
Blue overalls, blue shirts and black
hats constituted the uniforms worn by
the members of the plumbers union.
The sheet metal workers did not wear
uniforms, but carried galvanized iron
canes. The cement workers turned out
in white suits.
Material teamsters, plasterers in
automobiles, and brick layers and
structural iron workers constituted the
first division.
Tom Bone was grand marshal of
the second division, and his aids were
B. H Fish and E. H. Murphy. The
Lodi union band followed in line. The
stage mechanics union made up one
section.
The allied printing trades. consisting
of printers, pressmen and book bind
ers, were next in line. The Lodi unions
composed the next section, followed
by members of the local tailors' union.
BARRIERS turned out strong, and moving
picture operators wore blue uniforms
and carried reels of moving picture
films
There was a delegation from the
molders' union and a number of street.
carmen.
The electricians wore blue shirts and
white trousers, while the Ddr Ien0eES
rode in automobiles. Blacksmiths were
designated by their leather aprons.
dark caps and clothes. There was a
strong representation of the beer
drivers and stablemen's unions
The teamsters had an elegantly
decorated float drawn by six white
horses. Thirty or forty boys and girls
added to it's attractiveness. The bakers
one of whom carried a mammoth loaf
of bread, wore white uniforms with
hats to match. There were rs machin-
lists in line and a big representation
from the boiler makers union.
The laundry workers won the honors
of the parade for their turnout. The
men preceded a beautiful float drawn
by four black chargers and containin z
the women of the union.
The literary exercises began at 2:30
o'clock in the pavilion, when j. w.
Bibby, president of the day, introduced
Tom Bone, the speaker of the day.
After an address of welcome by Bone.
Frank MCGOWAN of San Francisco de-
livered the oration.