The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1911-09-05

Parade Featured by Many
Floats, With Wealth of
I Color Decking Displays
ARTISANS OF A HUNDRED
TRADES PASS In REVIEW
Sympathy for Mcnamara Broth
ers Shown by Banners
and Placards
PROGRAM AT SHELL MOUND
OCCUPIES THE AFTERNOON

N ~ ANY thousand men. toilers in
M shop and mart, marched
H through the streets of San
Francisco yesterday beneath
the flowing banners of their great
brotherhood. The demonstration was
symbolic Of the advance of industrial
freedom, more general on the western
coast than anywhere in the world, and
the spirit of their peaceful victory was
everywhere manifest. On curb and
sidewalk. from the Mission to the bay,
men of other .vocations--capitalists,
lawyers and Northumberland the
imposing pageant and raised their hats
to do honor to the craftsmen who
work with their hands.
Led on their way by Samuel Com
pers. statesman and general in chief of
the union labor army of America, the
artisans of hundred trades caught
step together and fell into line. The
day was perfect for the parade and
for the exercises that followed in the
afternoon at Shell Mound park. A
cool sun shone brightly on the gay
banners and picturesque uniforms,
making of Market street a panorama
of flashing color from the tops of the
decorated office buildings to the hosts
of marchers below
Number Unusually Large
The parade formed in Valencia
street at Seventeenth, proceeding to
Market and thence to Van Ness ave-
nue.. On that thoroughfare the march
ers went as far as Turk street, coun-
termarched to Market and then down
through the business section to the
ferry building, where boats were wait
ing in readiness to carry them across
the bay to Shell Mound. Immense
crowds were gathered everywhere
along the line OF march, and the spec
tacle was not wanting in popular en-
thusiasm.
The number in line was larger than
ever before, partly because Of the
growth Of the unions and partly out
OF respect to President Gompers-"Our
Sam,' they call him-who Is in the city
for the first time in many years. His
presence was the signal for a big DEM
onstration by the working people.
Sympathy for McNamaras
A feature of the parade was the
sturdy protest of organized labor on
the part of many of the crafts against
the alleged kidnapping of the McNamara
brothers and their detention in Los
Angeles on the charge Of dynamiting
the Times building. Most of the unions
in San Francisco have been called
upon to contribute to the defense fund
being raised by the American Fedora
ton OF Labor. Taking the parade as
a criterion the feeling here runs high
against the prosecution Of the sus-
poets Dozens of banners and placards
testified to the sentiment of the San
Francisco laboring men.
At the head of the procession rode
Mayor Mccarthy, grand marshal OF the
parade, surrounded by his guard or
honor. all mounted and decorated with
yellow regalia- The guard OF honor
was composed of prominent labor Of
ficials, and included John OConnell,
william G. Pugh, Joseph Curran Leo
Nicholson, Thomas Casserly, Alfred
Steiner. william P. MeCabe. John Nor
ris, Thomas F. Finn. James McTiernan.
Lawrence j. Flaherty. Thomas F.
Lyons. william H. Urmy, Emil Muri,
Kenneth McCloud, Michael Doyle. Will
liam Cole, John Bell. John Crane and
James Bartholomew.
Gompers Is Cheered
Following were the aids to the grand
marshal, Immediately preceding car
riage in which President Gompers was
riding, accompanied by Andrew J. CAL
lagher and O. A. Tveitmoe. Gompers.
smiling and suave. was the central HK-
ure in the parade, riding with barred