The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1913-08-15
PROGRAM IS
COMPLETE
LABOR DAY COMMITTEE S
PLANS TAKE DEFINITE
SHAPE - MANY outs SID E
UNIONS TO TAKE PART.

With the meeting last Sunday
morning of the Labor Day committee
the program for Labor Day was vir-
tually completed and all that remains
to be done is to work out the various
details. Every union in the city is
taking great interest in the coming
celebration and complete harmony
prevails. If the weather man behaves
as he should the day will be one long
to be remembered. At no previous
celebration have there been as many
outside visitors as will be in Everett
this Labor Day. Many logging
camps and mills around through the
county will close for the day and the
crews will come to Everett to assist
in the program. Several outside To-
Gals of timber workers have promised
to attend in a body.
To permit all outside visitors to be
in line, the big parade will not start
until II a. m. 1t will be in two di-
visions, each division led by band.
Some thirty unions will be in line and
the number of marching men and wo-
men will greatly exceed any previous
parade There will be no commercial
section this year as it has been de-
cided by the committee to have for
once a distinctively union lineup from
start to finish. R. J. Olinger, of the
Electricians Union, will be the grand
marshal and will select his own
mounted aides from among the va
rious unions. The line of march will
be from Hewitt and Rucker, east on
Hewitt to Chestnut and countermarch
west on Hewitt to Rucker or Grand.
The entire formation of the parade
will be printed in subsequent issues
of the Journal
Wagner's band will lead one di-
vision and Norland's band the other.
For an hour previous to the parade
there will be band concert on some
prominent street intersection.
Promptly at one o'clock the grounds
at Robbins Park will be thrown open
and Wagner's Concert Band will play
in concert while the crowd is gath
ering. At 2 o'clock the Labor Day
address will be delivered by Charles
R. Case, past president of the State
Federation of Labor. Immediately
after the address a long list of sports
will be reeled off which will occupy
the balance of the afternoon. The
list includes the following events !:
Pole climbing contest for linemen,
hand line throwing contest for line
men, saw bucking contest for loggers,
ladies' 50-yard foot race, boys shoe
race, ladies' nail driving contest, fat
mans 50-yard race, 50-yard dash for
girls under 16, tug-of-war between
unions, fat mans obstacle race, free
for-all shoe race, 50-yard dash for
boys under 70, 100-yard free-for-all
dash, 50-yard sack race For the
electricians contests and the loggers'
saw bucking contest there will be
liberal cash prizes awarded and for
all other contests merchandise prizes
donated by Everett merchants. The
list of prizes with the names of the
donors will appear in a later issue
of the Journal and in the official pro-
gram.
AS a wind-up to the day grand
ball will be given in the Coliseum
Rink, music furnished by a Wagner's
10-piece orchestra. The ladies of the
Label League will have charge of the
floor and of the dance concessions.
In addition ito the program given
above the Label League will conduct
a tag sale, the proceeds to be devoted
to purchasing stock in the Labor
Temple building fund. AS the entire
net proceeds of the day is to be
turned into the treasury of the Labor
Temple association as necleus of
a new building fund, additional inter-
est attaches to the day.
Without a doubt the coming Labor
Day will be the most successful one
celebrated in the history of local
unions, the only item which remains
speculative being the conduct of the
weather man. We might add that
libations to the weather gods will be
the order from now until September 1.