The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-09-08

commercial floats and the entry of
Brackebush, Wright & Shaw easily car
ried off the honors as being the most
unique and yet typical in that section
All were meritOrious and the business
firms entering them are deserving of the
thanks of organized labor Every con
veyance in the line of march was driven
by union teamster.
The parade judges declared that the
selection of prize winning floats was one
of the most difficult tasks they ever
encountered and that a prize ought to
have been given to every one of them.
1t was by long odds the best exhibit of
floats emblematic of craft skill ever seen
in Everett. The two floats entered by
the Label League were awarded first
money and that award meets with gen.
eral approval. The whole story or 81
ganized labor's efforts to improve con
ditions of the toilers was plainly shown
in the comparison between union and
non-union working conditions, and was
the outcome of many weeks of careful
planning and arduous work
The Electrical Workers were given SCI
ond place owing to the combined beauty
and practical demonstration of their
entry. The Typographical Union was
given third prize. This float was beau
tifully decorated and was faithful rep
resentation of the first newspaper office
in the days of Benjamin Franklin.
The Railway Trainmen with their
perfect reproduction of a railway ca
boose were awarded a special cash prize
of $3.50 made up by the judgea.I---
No one appreciates what difficult
task the judges had in picking out the
floats for prize winners except them,
selves. Every one of the floats in line
deserves individual mention and praise,
for they were all tastefully gotten up
and carefully planned as to detail.
{ In addition to the other prizes Mr..
Brodeck awarded a cash prize of $50
to the Carpenters for making the best
all around showing of any individual
the excellent float combined to make this
union worthy of special prize, in the
estimation of the donor of the ward,
Mr.. Brodeck.
The Machinists had special feature
which deserves mention. A man repre-
senting "the trusts with dollar signs
stitched all over his suit, led a mule
which was placarded "Non Union. | Am
a Free and Independent Workman
To describe all the meritorious tea
lures of the parade as we would like
would fill this issue of the journal. 1t
was GREAT!
The afternoon sports and exercises
saw the largest crowd ever gathered in
Robbins park with the single exception
of circus day. Before o'clock the
grandstand was sold out and the crowd
packed the bleachers and overlooked
onto the grounds, banking the ball field.
We want to pause here to remark"
that Labor Day ought to drive home to
the people of Everett the fact that there
is no one thing that we need more than
a centrally located field where public
outdoor events can be staged. Everett's
do 1nI a.,
ago to the appeal to its pocketbook in
its municipal financial extremity Our
citizens could do no more practical and
patriotic thing than to again go down
into its pocket, buy and present to the
city a tract of land not too far out, to
be forever set aside by the city as an
amusement park.
But to resume. Wagner's concert band
of eighteen pieces rendered an excep-
tionally fine concert, after which E. P.
Marsh as chairman of the day an
nounced the prize winners in the morn
ing parade and introduced as the Labor
Day orator, Charles Perry Taylor, of
Tacoma. secretary treasurer of the State
Federation of Labor. Mr.. Taylor was
in splendid voice and for forty minutes
held the big audience in close attention
to his magnificent address. And it was
magnificent-both in delivery and sub
stance. 1t is our regret that lack OF
space prevents us from publishing it in
full in this issue but we advise oul
readers to obtain copy of the Daily
Herald of that day and read it carefully
The address covered fully the hopes and
aspirations of our movement breathed
of true patriotism but denounced the
evils of our industrial system in words
that burned. The courts We're dealt
with forcibly but the speaker made il
plain that we had no quarrel with law
and order. 1t was the perversion OF
judicial authority and not judicial au
thority itself that the people were
fighting in this country.
A disappointment to the crowd anC
no less disappointment to the Stag,
Workers themselves was the forced
abandonment of their open air exhibit
This feature had been carefully worked
out and would have been extremely en-
PERTAINING but it was found to be abso
lutely impossible to handle the scenery
because of the wind.
Three races were successfully pullef