Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-07
CROWDS THR0NC STREETS ALL DAY
 AT CELEBRATION
Everything Goes Off SmoOth- ly at Labor Day Fes-
 tivities
CANDIDATES SPEAK
 AT MEMORIAL PARK
Hon. McRae Pleads for Better Schools and Senator Caraway Admonishes LabOrers to
 be True Americans

Pine Bluff was crowded all day Monday, people coming from the sur rounding country to attend the La bor day celebration, see the parade of labor unions, and to hear the ad- dresses of Hon. T. C. McRae, and Senator T. H. Carraway made at Memorial park immediately after noon.
 Streets were crowded from early in the morning until late at night when the amusement places closed. Merchants opened their stores for business part of the day and report big sales. Police headquarters re- port not single serious accident occurred to mar the day of celebra- tion. One woman drove her auto- mobile through plate glass window.
 But everything went off smoothly and as planned. Truly it was day for the laboring man.
 Forming on West Barraque the pa rade, consisting of all labor unions of the city rounded the corner at the court house and marched south on Main street between two solidly packed lines of humanity which had formed an hour and more before in anticipation. It disbanded at Sixth and Cherry streets. Everyone then left for Memorial park to attend the program and hear speeches by two of the states most honored men.
 Mounting to the speakers platform radiant and full of enthusiasm for having beeen associated in a parade of laboring men. Hon. T. c. McRae started his address with blank declaration labor had the right to or ganize and by such organization as had been formed by the worker con ditions had been bettered for the country at large. The crowd was with him. He had their confidence from the start. Then he worked in- his statements the rights of capital pointing out that neither capital nor labor could exist without the help of the other and reminded the la boring men should not be selfish in their desires and should therefore recognize that capital also had the right to organize.
 The successful gubernatorial can- didate then referred to labor's "fath- er," Samuel Gompers, expressing his happiness in having voted during his eighteen years membership in the United States house of representa- tives for every bill that the American federation of labor president had introduced.
 Warming up to his audience, MT. McRae began an appeal for more at tention to the rising generation de- claring the state could we'll afford to stand more taxation for the better ment of it's school system; pointing out the large percentage of Hitter acy and calling note of the better ments along educational lines that have been accomplished in the past few years.
 Citing the vast influence which he declared labor had yielded toward plotting out illiteracy with strenuous work toward the abrogation of laws that permitted child and unrestricted women labor; the governor made patriotic appeal for continued ef- fort on the part of organized labor and closed his speech recalling that the government of the United States as formed in 1776 had permitted the scope in which labor now operates. Make this country the truly demo- cratic nation that our forefathers brought into the world when they deserted the divine right principles of the old countries to migrate to free land, he pleaded. He admon- ished a lasting respect for the foun-
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