The San Francisco call., 1910-09-06
LABOR PARADE
LARGEST EVER
Held IN CITY
$4,000 TOiIers, Representing
l07 Trades Unions. Are in
Line of March

~ Labor's strength and the toilers' in
+ dependence were heraljed forth yes
terday. when $4,000 workers. repre-
-s6nunE l0f trades unions, locked
Franks and marched through the streets
or the city and were cheered from end
.zto end by crowds Of onlookers mass
ing the sidewalks
+. it, was the largest parade Of its kind
bY fax ever held in san Francisco.
Afore than a score Of bands and drum
aeorps smashed and Hanged them for
ward At times the marchers would
chec ktheir parade with lusty shouts
IN answer TO the cheering of the spec
1at0rs. Unions there were of every
conceive bic Kind. workers Of every de-
scriptiou-younE and old men and
women, hale and weak. Here and there
along the route the distance would
prove too much for some worker, bur
dened with the weight of years, and
he would drop out. but as a rule the
ranks held firm and swung by the re-
Viewing stand at Drum and California
Streets, heads erect and shoulders back,
with no sign of fatigue.
--s+ shortly after $50 a. IN. the leading
@band struck out with a rollicking
lnarch and the thousands massed in
orderly formation in the vicinity of
Fourteenth and Valencia streets
stepped forward. The march was 10
Market street, thence 10 Van Ness ave-
nue., to Turk, countermarching in Van
- Ness avenue TO Market and down TO
:The ferry building. where boats were
Ken across the bay for Shell Mound
OFFICERS OF PARADE
Leading it as grand marshal was
5ohn A. Kelly. chairman OF the finance
acommittee of the board Of supervisors,
with q mounted guard of honor COM
n
don. eL0 MichaelsOn, Z. A. Brown, VIII
Slain Wright, James r. Dillon, John
MahOney, 2. :. Hurley. James Curran.
..foln Walsh. n. r Smith, Dean Evans,
- ohm Bell. William Simpson. A L Hol-
lis William A Mcdonnell. ". F.
Flageler. George Bremen. J. J. Mony
han and W II. Urmv. The marshaPs
aides were Andrew ]. Gallagher Mich
sel Casey, John I Nolan, W. r. Hagerty,
II Cantrowith, William H Bemiss,
Frank Mcdonald. Joseph Duffy, C A
Nelson and John Coeheld. Immediately
following them were carriages con
tanning Mayor Mccarthy and his fam
fy. Theodore Bell, democratic. and
John Stitt Wilson, socialist, candidates
for governor, ana the judges OF the pa
1ade. who were r. B. Hale. J. A.
Sorenson. B. skatschinski, DR.. I. Cook
and W X. Cole.
Leading the parade Of workers was
The painters union No 19 under Mar
shsI r - Lynch. They came in q
massed body, followed by the auxil-
fsry painters. the carriage and auto
painters No. sos, the varnishers and
pOlishers No. 134. under Marshal r.
Tobin. the sign and pictorian painters
10. SO. IN command of Marshal ". p
Kennedy and led by a comedy. band.
THE united glass workers, carpet me-
chanics. window shade workers, carry
-F-4 cF l,o
fQr1iS Re handlers union No. / brought
3 up.the rear OF the division.
SAILORS ARE CHEERED
=: .SIarshaI 3. b. Rosenthal had charge
! of. the second DIVISION which was led
=hE the sailors union in uniform. This
was the first uniformed body in the
parade, and il was received with cheer
Ing. The gas appliance workers and
stove filters followed next, and third
was the glass blowers union No. %,
sn uniforms of gray, marching in
straight solid lines and preceded by
feat whereOn workers went through
Lle process Of blowing glass This
: union was awarded the second prize
for the best appearance
IN this division was also a float of
the moving picture operators, which
was awarded first prize as being the
best in the parade.
d. The glass blowers were followed by
noat containing a bevy Of girls be-
longing TO the bottle Gamers union.
al busily plying their trade. The box
makers and sswyers swung by next,
followed by the brewery workmen, gas
workers. PAYERS and rammermen.
Boiler makers No. 25, which came out
unusually strong, was awarded a spe-
.cisl prize in the contest for the best
percentage OF membership. Carriage
workers union No. s, retail delivery
drivers and bootblacks, boot and shoe
workers and cutters, coopers' unions
No. 15l and So. preceded by a float
sy2 olical of their calling, ice wagon
GrfSers and broom makers followed
This division, the biggest in the
parade. contained also the newspaper
carriers, the retail shoe clerks, water
workers, electrical workers No. 151,
stereotypers and electrotypers No %,
upholsterers, horse shoers. typographi-