The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-25
PARADE TO SHOW
UNION LABORS
RAPID GROWTH
Labor Leaders Say Labor Day
Celebration Will Be Greater
Than Anything of Its Kind
Held in Memphis.

II is expected that the rapid growth
OF trade untonism in Memphis within
the past six months will be reflected in
the annual Labor day parade. which
VIII take place on the first Monday In
september. Several crafts will be repre-
scented In the line Of march which have
not heretofore appeared in the ranks
OF organized labor In Memphis. A greater
number will represent each craft than
appeared in the parade last year, It
Is estimated that there win be between
parade.
II think the Labor day celebration
this year will be the greatest OF the
kind ever held In Memphis" II. @. Ter
isner, business manager Of the Building
Trades council, said Monday morning,
The Building Trades council alone ex-
poets to put IS different crafts and
about 1000 members In the parade. The
Carpenters union, which will be in
this section, has added 800 to its mem
bership IN the last two months. Tho
Painters union Is growing rapidly, and
the plasterers', bricklayers', plumh-
ers', steamfitters' and electricians
unions have just about Incorporated all
the workmen Of the several kinds in the
city.
Among the new unions represented
WIN be the milk wagon drivers and the
telephone operators, The beverage
workers will appear as one of the side
lights on prohibition. with them il
will he a case OF new soft drinks IN ole
bottles, as they were formerly called this
hewery workers. The teachers VII
illustrate the tendency Of unionism e
recruit to It's ranks those workers whC
In the past have been regarded as in
tellectual workers, and as such too q
vanced in the social scale for labor or
gAni2atlon,
Besides the parade, the labor unlonr
xpin hat "a mn nn-Hau NirRir at NARp,
wood park. There there will be gamer
and dancing and other amusement
i, from morning until midnight,
The celebration will be under the al
rection Of the ways and means commit
: tee of the Trades and Labor council
This committee met Sunday and con
! Quoted drawings among the ,varioui
. unions for positions in the parade, Tn
exact results Of the drawings will no
, be known until later, but w. 7, Powell
: secretary Of the committee. was abb
r to announce Monday morning, the LID
. of march Of the parade by divisions, TIL
divisions will number four M VIII I'm
up as follows:
Organization and Route.
First division-Police department
mayor and commissioners, officers Q
the Trades and Labor council, telephon
n operators, public school teachers, boiler
! makers, marine and stationary engin
2 GERS, broommakers, leather workers
= boot and shoe workers, Beverage work
= ers, milk wagon drivers, upholsterer
1 and trimmers, switchmen, city firemer
\ street railway employees and BARRIERS.
= Second D~ivision--Boy Scouts buildin
: trades council, c~arbonated water work
ers, iron holders, clKarmakers, butchers
- retail clerks and saw-filers,
Third Observation-Disclosures clerks ma
ehinists and allied printing trades,
- Fourth divislon-Railway clerks an
federated railway WORKERS.
!. The parade will form on South Secon
!, street, between Beale and Gayoso ave
" nues, and will get unoer way AZ.
! am. The line Of march will be north Q
!, Second street to Exchange, west on EN
. change to Main, south on Main TO Lin
den, counter-march on Main TO Monrot
Monroe t. Second, Second to CouI
n square.
Of the cigarmakers' union. TO serve 2
grand marshal of the parade. Hanson
aides will be j. Koch, OF the reta
clerks, and James u. II. Phillips and I
" scott, OF the street railway en-
Moves,