New-York tribune., 1912-04-29
SOCIALISTS PARADE MAY |
Plans Made for Big Eight-Hour
Day Demonstration.
SPEECHES IN UNION SQUARE
Expect to Have $4,000 in Line
When Marchers Start from
Rutgers Square.

All preparations were completed yester-
day by the May Day demonstration con-
ference OF the New York local of the So
cialist party aud the Socialist Labor or
ganiza tions for their annual eight-hour
May Day demonstration on Wednesday.
May is looked on as Labor Day by the
Socialists All over the world. and similar
demonstrations. consisting Of parades and
mass meetings at which eight-hour work
day and socialistic resolutions will be
passed will be held in the principal cities
throughout this country and Europe
In this country the first Monday In Sep
tember was established as Labor Day by
the regular trade unions a number of
years ago and has come to be national
holiday. While May is not a national
holiday here. il is. however. observed as
holiday by many socialistic workers.
There will be at least two parades in
this city on Wednesday. and. according to
the members Of the May Day demonstra-
tion conference. about fifty thousand per-
sons are expected to be in line in the ag
gregate The parades will he followed by
q Joint mass meeting in Union Square, at
which speeches will be made in different
languages.
The principal parade will start from Rut
gers Square and its vicinity At > y. m. In
this parade will be the New York local Of
the Socialist party. the womens division OF
the Socialists. the Young Peoples Socialist
Federation. the different locals of the Hotel
| Workers Union. the Finnish Socialists,
Butchers Union IA, Carpenters Union 309.
| a number of unions Of the Industrial Work.
ers Of the World, CIgarmakers' Union 30.
and delegates from Socialist singing socie-
ties and other Socialist bodies. The United
Hebrew Trades, consisting of the East Side
unions will also parade from Rutgers
Square. In this body will be large num-
Der of women workers including the mem
bers of the White Goods Workers Union.
the Ladies' Waist Makers Union and other
| organizations OF women The members OF
the Lawrence strike committee. who con-
Quoted the strike of the textile workers
under the auspices of the Industrial Work
ers of the World in Lawrence, Mass, will
march in this parade and carry banners
{ calling attention TO the arrest Of the leaders
OF the Lawrence strike
The other parade. which will start from
| East nth street. will consist principally
| OF the locals OF the Journeymen Bakers
| and Confectioners International Union.
The paraders will have a float on which
will be a miniature labor temple made Of
sugar. They will meet and Join with the
narade which starts from Rutgers Square
| at 32d street where other bodies may also
ioin with them, and the joint parade will
march to Union Square. The parade start
ing from Rutgers Square will march
through the principal East Side streets and
then TO Fifth Avenue and SD street The
paraders will then march to Fourth avenue
and down Fourth avenue to Union Square
plaza.
There will be two stands from which
speeches will be made at Union Square. be-
| sides the cottage, which will be the prin-
| cipal stand. on one OF the stands Whlch
will he on the west side OF the Cottage
speeches will be made in Yiddish, German
Polish Hungarian. Italian. Finnish and
Iettish Speeches will be made in English
from the other two stands. Among the
speakers will be Meyer London. Miss Anita
J {. Block. Algernon $ Crapsey, OF Roch-
ester; Abraham Cshan. BENJAMIN Vein
stein. Max Pine and Joshua Wsnhope.
Speeches will be made and resolutions will
he passed in favor of universal eight
/ hour workday and OF socialism. Among
those taking part in the demonstration will
be FIVE hundred piano workers, who are on
strike. and unions in the Industrial Work
ers of the World.
Edward f. Cassidy Will preside at the
cottage stand; Benjamin Welnstein, organ
izer of the United Hebrew Trades, will
preside at the stand on the west side and
/. Phillips will preside at a stand TO be
erected on the east side or the cottage.