The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-03
Efghty-four Local Trade Unions and Skilled Crafts To Be Represented DECORATED FLOATS WILL BE FEATURE Big Barbecue Dinner at East Lake Park-Many Prizes Offered For
 the Athletic
 Contests

Fitting exercises will be carried out serve with the greatest programme ever participated in by them the one day of the year set aside for celebration Of labor A full or half-holiday has been decreed by local stores, railway offices banks, courthouse, city hall and post office and Birmingham, as a whole, will be given a day off. The labor parade will be the feature of the morning. At the picnic and barbecue at East Lake park there will be speechmaking, ath- Ietic contests. dancing and various other activities.
 Thousands of men and women, auto mobiles and decorated floats will take part in the parade. Eighty-four local la bor unions will be represented and spon- sored and laborers from every industry and trade in this district will partici- pate. A huge unit in the parade will be the delegation of the United Mine Workers, which is expected to be several thousand strong The Labor Day com- mittee of the Birmingham Trades coun- cil has reported that all plans have been completed and that everything is in TGdOlueSS lOi lHS CAclSiSCS cl tOoeAS.
 SEVEN SECTIONS
 There will be seven sections of the pa rade which will start from Capitol park at 10 o'clock this morning, when the participants will have gathered and formed the line of the parade. A platoon of mounted police will lead the procession, followed by grand marshal and standard bearers; city commission ,,tn nf Alabama State Federation of Labor; ex- ecutives of the Alabama Farmers union; the band; local sponsors motor.
 In the first division the formation will be as follows: Local unions of Carpenters and Joiners; Typographical Union; Stage Employees; Farmers Union; Journeymen Barbers and Amalgamated Association af Street Railway Employes.
 Second division: Bartenders; Chauf- feurs; Boilersmakers; Cooks and Walters; Sheet Metal Workers Structural Iron- workers; Machinists; band.
 Third division: Four trainmen's organ izations Brotherhood of Railroad Train men, Order of Railway Conductors, Loco motive Engineers, Locomotive Engine men and Bremen; Musicians Union; Electrical Workers; Bricklayers; Mould CTS; Garment Workers
 Fourth division: Headed by Alabama Boys Industrial School Band, followed by United Mine Workers of America, Dis trict No. 20.
 Fifth division: Local unions of Meat Cutters; Patternmakers; Bookbinders Plasterers; Hoisting Engineers; band. Sixth division: Local unions of Black smiths: Brotherhood of Railway Carmen; Painters. Paperhangers and Decorators. Seventh division: Local unions of Stereotypers; Printing Pressmen; Cigar makers; Plumbers; Steamfitters and Stenographers.
 ROUTE OF PARADE The official route of the parade will be as follows
 Form at Capitol park at Il a. m. sharp proceed south on Twentieth street tc Fifth avenue; thence west on Fifth ave nue to Nineteenth street; thence on Nineteenth street to First avenue; thence east on First avenue to Twenty-second street. thence north on Twenty- second street to Second avenue; thence west on Second avenue to Twentieth street thence north on Twentieth street to Fifth avenue; thence east on Fifth ave- nue to Terminal station. Counterrarch on Fifth avenue to Twentieth street thence north to park and disband. Following the parade the barbecue dln- ner will be served at East Lake park where numerous prizes will be awarded the winners of the various contests tax ing place during the afternoon. Contests foI both men and women will be held. prize ball will be the final contest. There will be an exhibition of fire works at the park tonight.