Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
LABOR UNIONS TO MARCH
THROUGH STREETS TO-DAY
Impressive Demonstration to BE
Given by City's Workers
This Morning.
OWEN SPEAKS AT FOREST HILL
Parade to Be Followed by Field
Meet and Oratory-Swanson ut
Midlothian and Montague at
Hanover.

Richmond stages its greatest Labor
! Day celebration to-day with an inn
| pressirc labor pageant, military dis
plays. speeches and field meets. Last
night saw the completion of every de-
tail of the gigantic program which EN-
| occasion and the various agencies re-
| sponsible for its creation ask only that
| the day be one of sunshine that their
! plans may suffer no Interference.
| The major event of the day opens
at $3.50 this morning, when the labor
/ pageant moves from Broad and Elcv-
! cnth Streets to begin its march through
| the heart OF the city. In this pageant
every labor organization of Richmond
! will take part: their members march
ing with the large number of impress
| sive floats entered. Forty-tire white
organizations will be represented in
the the, main IA; body Of the parade; These
bands. floats. Red Cross workers. y. w.
c. y. members and others. and by vari-
lated with the Central Trades and Labor
Council.
FULLY 5000 MARCHERS
EXPECTED TO BE IN LINE
1t is expected that fully 5000 march,
srs VIII be il h and 1t b.
than 10000 spectators.
The parade will move through Broad.
Lombardy. FRANKLIN. Fifth and Grace
crnor Davis, Mayor Ainslie, senator
Robert l. Owen. of Oklahoma; Major
Dor; and other prominent state, city
and labor officials at the Franklin
street side Of the Jefferson Hotel. I'M
mcdiatcly after It disbands the various
ORGANIZATIONS in the parade will go
to Forest Hill Park, where the field
contests will begin at oclock.
the park from / until o'clock. At
o'clock Senator owen will begin an
address TO the unionists.
Chief Marshal Thomas Is. Morton
has directed each Of the organizations
as TO where it will join the parade.
They are to form in the streets crossing
Those on the north side of Broad will
fall in line first at each corner, those
on the south side coming in immedi-
ateiy behind
SWANSON AND MONTAGUE
AT NEARBY CELEBRATIONS
In the meantime West Chesterfield
and Hanover County people will stage
celebrations at Midlothian and Hanover
Courthouse; Senator swanson Will ad-
Healy will address that at Hanover.
Both of these celebrations will be held
&c aid the Red Cross.
The labor parade here will be formed
in the following order:
Mounted police, Central Trades and
Labor Council, Governor, Mayor. State
No. 80: Pressmen, No. ll2; Lithograph-
ers. No. %; Stereotypers and Electro
ttypers. No. Go: Photo Engravers. No.
SO: S,enographers and Typewritcrs, No.
1883; Bookbinders. No. %; war savings
organizations. Carpenters and Joiners.
No. 2SS; Carpenters and Joiners. No.
1896; Bricklayers. No. /: Plumbers, No.
10; Sheet-Metal Workers. No. 80;
Sheet Metal Workers, No S54: Sheet
Metal Workers, No. 363; Electrical
Workers No. &c., Granite Cutters
Union. Painters and Paperhangers, No.
lois; Painters and PaPerhangers, No.
392; Red Cross organizations. Metal
Trades Council. Machinists. No. 10:
Machinists. No. csc; Machinists. $50;
Railway Carmen, No. 1873; Railway
Carmen. No. 1874; Railway Carmen No.
362; Railway Carmen. No. AIS; Rail-
way Carmen, No. Sic; Railway Carmen.
No. CO.; holders Union. Pattern-Mak-
ers Union. Stove Mountcrs' Cnoin,
Eoilermakers' Union, Blacksmiths'
Union. Leather Workers Union, Retail
Clerks Union, Bakers Union. Tailors'
I n ron. Moving Picture Operators
Union. Glassworkers' Union Railway
clerks Union, CiGarmakers' Union
MIX Salesmen's Union. Tobacco Work
ccrs Union, colored organizations. union