Denver labor bulletin., 1918-09-07
Especial to The BuIIetin.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-Greatest of
all Labor Days, Labor Day of 1918
has passed.
Labor Day this year was a pledge
to the nation-a pledging anew of la
boris determination to make the war
the first and only business of every
| worker until the war is won.
Great demonstrations and parades
were held in almost every city and
town in America. Millions of men
marched, not in festive spirit, but in
earnest demonstration of their soli-
darity in the one cause of all human
| ity.
In the shipyards of America there
| was celebration of the day-a big
| splash" for labor, the product of labor.
| another forecast of the great contin-
uation of "big splashes" that will build
the bridge to Berlin
Chief among the demonstrations of
Labor Day were those held in New
York, Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadel-
| phia, San Francisco, Denver, Seattle,
St. Louis, ST. Paul. Minneapolis, Bal
timore, Cleveland, Detroit and Cincin-
natl.
Military features marked a great
many of the parades. Thru the CO.
operation of the American Alliance
for Labor and Democracy the interest
of the war department was enlisted
and permission given for military es-
corts, together with aviation demon
| strations wherever it was possible to
detail troops and airplanes for the
day.
In New York fully 10000 men,
bers of organized labor marched up
Fifth avenue to the cheering crowds
that packed every available inch of
space. The parade was reviewed by
Secretary of Labor Wilson. A num-
Der of elaborate floats, a large mill
tary escort and the presence of mill
tary aircraft skimming over the line
of march made this the most spectac-
ular Labor Day parade the metropolis
has ever Witnessed
A moving picture in four reels. di-
rect from "over there" was shown for
the first time in the United States by
special arrangement with the commit
tee on public information.
Preceding Labor Day there was a
mass meeting under the auspices of
the New York Postoffice Clerks
Union at the Maxine Elliott theater
on Sunday afternoon, at which George
| Creel, chairman of the committee on
public information; Rabbi Stephen S.
| wise OF rec
| Thomas Flaherty, secretary-treasurer
of the National Federation of Postal
Employees, delivered patriotic ad-
dresses. District Attorney Swami
presided.
Following the parade there was a
celebration at the Manhattan casino,
where addresses were made by Sec
retary of Labor w. B. Wilson. Attor-
ney General T. W. Gregory, State
Senator R. F. Wagner, Mayor John
F. Hylan, Alfred E. Smith, president
board of aldermen; A. B. MacStay,
commissioner of street cleaning; N.
Hubert, commissioner docks and fer
ries; NJ B. Connolly, president Bor-
ough of Queens, and Peter J. Brady,
supervisor city record.
| The chief executives of three states,
i Governors Hunt of Arizona, Cappey
of Kansas and Cats of Florida, de-
! livered Labor Day addresses.
| The Chicago demonstration eclipsed
anything ever seen on Labor Day. Chi
| cago is having a military exposition
beginning September l and Monday
was given over to labor. The Chicago
| Federation of Labor marshaled 250,-
600 men and women for the parade.
On the reviewing stand near the
| Statue of Liberty was a joint COM
| mittee representing the Chicago Fed
| Grafton of Labor. Chicago Chamber of
Commerce and the citizens commit
| tee, including Secretary of State Rob
| ert lansing. Chairman Z. n. Hurley
of the shipping board and Joseph F.
Valentine, second vice-president of the
American Federation of Labor. Simon
O'Connell. president Chicago Building
Trades, was chairman of the Labor
Day committee.
The military exposition in Chicago
was given over in part to the achieve
ments of organized labor in war work,
and the patriotic efforts of the Ameri-
can Alliance for Labor and Democra-
cy was illustrated at a special booth.
Thomas Van Lear, the Socialist
mayor of Minneapolis, headed pa
rade of 10000 unionists. Mayor Van
Lear issued proclamation calling on
all citizens to observe Labor Day.