Arizona republican., 1912-09-03
Gifted Speakers Upheld the Cause of the Workingman and Told of the Curbing of the Corporations of the Country
LOS ANGELES MAN
 SPEAKER OF DAY
Fine Program of Sports Ends With Baseball Game and the Evening Ushered in a Ball at Patrick Hall

The biggest and most successful Labor day celebration ever held in Phoenix was the result of the activities of the Phoenix Trades council as seen in yesterdays demonstration at East Lake Park. The park was crowded with people all afternoon, a gOodly number having assembled in the forenoon as well. Refreshment booths where soft drinks lunches, candies and popcorn were sold, served to satisfy the seekers after sweetmeats or the hunger of those who came early. After taking account of the donations for the cele- bratiOn and the total of expense and receipts, it was estimated last night that the profits of the day would reach approximately $500, which will go into the treasury of the trades council The features of the celebra- tion were the athletic sports, the ora tory and the baseball game in the af- ternoon, and a big ball in Patrick's hall in the evening.
 The sport program began promptly at 12:3O o'clock and proved to be a source of a great deal of amusement. Some forty events had been arranged for and they were carried out to the letter except in the case of some of the novelty numbers, where the entry list could not be filled sufficiently for a start The big events of the sport program -was a baby Marathon race in which there were four starters with but two to finish. Tom Gear and H. F.. Gear. brothers. both touched the
 
 and Henry Henderson also entered but fell by the wayside. The course of the race lay from the park west on Jeffer- son street to the city hall. north to Washington, east to Park road and south again to the park. The time was r minutes, p seconds.
 The Pioneer band was early on the grounds and contributed a great deal to the pleasure of the afternoon. Promptly at 1 o'clock the speaking program was entered upon. The gath ering was presided over by J. L. Mill ton, who introduced J. B. Palmer of the Typographical Union as the first speaker He delivered a brief address of welcome, after which Senator H. A. Davis made a carefully prepared speech, the burden of which was a de- fense of the first state legislature in it's enactment of laws respecting la bor, with particular reference to the railroad legislation. on the theory that all railroad restriction is a benefit to labor The specific advice given his aurience was to turn out as one man next elctiOn day and vote for the laws against which the railroads have in voked the privileges of the referendum. He pointed out very truly that if these laws are not now sustained, la bor would then bear the responsibility for their failure, not the legislature, nor could they blame the railroads If the people approved their attitude.
 Judge Lewis T. Carpenter, assistant attorney-genera1. followed MT Davis in an address of some length. It was devoted largely to a recital of what the legislature had done in curbing corporations, and telling also of what the attorney generals office has done to back up the legislature both during it's session and subsequently in the in- depreciation and enforcement of the laws. MT. Carpenter also said a great many complimentary things about trade unions and labor in general.
 L. c. Bradford, representative of the socialist rarty of toe state. tal,;e:] on labor issues in general and touched lightly on socialism. J. c Provost, president of the state Feder- atiOn of Labor, spoke for about fif- teen minutes on the achievements and objects of labor organizations.
 The speaker of the day was Thomas Y. Wilson, a prominent labor leader o1 Los Angeles, and vice-president of the international organization of machin- ists. He consumed about half an hour dwelling on general conditions as thcH are said to prevail in nearly all the civilized countries of the world, a: well as in China which is now seekine admission into that classification His address aroused a great deal of en thuiasm and applause.
 The latter part of the afternoon wa devoted to the ball game betweel Phoenix and Tucson, whi:!l called big crowd to the grand stand an; bleachers, and which reSu!tel :n Phoenix victory by a score If to It is described at length elsewhere il this issue The final event of the 1a. was the ball given i:I the evening q Patricks's hall. 1t syaS attended by
 monster crowd, the hall being pacll.t until a late hour. The Besse orches tra furnished the music and the dare ing was greatly enjoyed, the bali prov
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