Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-04
NOVEL EFFECTS
ARE SHOWN
IN PARADE

Union labor, to the air of matrial
/ streets of Newark today and swung
past the reviewing stand at the Court
House, while thousands watched and
applauded
Men and women from fifty unions
We're in line. The leaders estimated
that there were $4,000 in the procession,
Along the line of march, which ran
through the Down Neck section to
Market street and up Market to the
| Court House, thousands of spectators
were massed long before the squad Of
mounted police swept along in the van
of the marching labor men.
| Following the police came the Essex
Trades Council, marching in a body
beneath their blue banner.
The Hatters unions Nos. 10 and IA,
| had the right of line. With them
forming break in the line of men,
We're five automobiles carrying the
women of the Hat Trmmers' union. In
the first machine rode their officers;
in the others were the smiling and
charming unionists whose presence in
the Labor Day pageant was as novel
as it was pleasing
The next group of wwomen, led by
a blue banner crowned by a golden
eagle that glittered in the brilliant sun
shine, were the members of the
Union Label League. They occupied
seven automobiles In all
They were followed by the members
of the Typographical Union, whose dis
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the entire line. They marched under
glistening white parasols, massed SOL
idly together, so that, to the onlooker
from office windows, the men seemed
moving beneath a rythmically tossing
sea of brilliant white
Then came the bakers, led by their
officers, who were girded with red,
white and blue sashes. Borne on the
broad shoulders of sturdy quarter
was a monster cake, with golden en-
blems standing rigidly above 1t, a At
display for the knights of the rolling
pin and dough trough
The bakers were all in white, thus
standing out conspcuously from the
deep banks of dark-clothed onlookers.
Following the bakers were a number
of unions, including a long line of
steam filters, portable and stationary.
Then cme the metal polishers. swing
ing along beneath hundreds of fiutter-
ing flags bearing in brilliant red and
blue their union label.
The moulders followed in trim blue
shirts and white ties. Man, of the
faces of these men were familiar as
Spanish War veterans. Their swing
ing gait testified to military precision
and the invigoratng effect of the clear
morning air.
The Ladies' Tailors and Cloakmakers
soon appeared with group of girls as
their vanguard. The girls wore the
white shrtwaists of their feminine as
sociates of the parade, and. in addi-
tion, collars of dark, ruby red.
Then came the big float of the process
sion-a four-horse truck with forge
and anvil and four husky horseshoers
laboring nightly at their heavy work
The horseshoers made a striking dis
play in their split-leather aprons and
dark blue working shirts.
Following them were the machinists
and iron workers. The latter wore
blue shirts and round white hats. They
were we'll massed and marched like
soldiers.
The painters and decorators, strong
in their display of canes, swept along
and with them swept a dozen more
unions, each one with its insignia and
flag carried on before.
At the Court House the parade was
reviewed by Mayor Haussling, Sheriff
Harrigan and the members of the Es-
sex Trades Council