Labor Day Parade; AFGWU Local 23 among parade

RED LETTER DAY FOR LABOR

The Purpose of the Holiday is to Encourage a Higher Appreciation of the

Honor that Belongs to Working People and to Simulate

Wholesome Industrial Pursuits

STREET PARADE THIS MORNING

FAIR GROUND THIS AFTERNOON

FULL PROGRAM OF THE DAY

After a Great Parade Through Principle Streets Beginning at Ten O'Clock the Afternoon Will be Given to Athletic Excercises, Games and Speaking at the Fair Ground and there Will be Choice of Entertainments in the Evening - - - Origin and History of Labor Day - - - Its Observance in Muncie.

AMUSEMENTS GALORE TODAY.

Muncie will not have the crowd of strangers here today that came three years ago on the occasion of the an­nual observance of Labor day, but the sport and general observance will eclipse any previous like celebration, with varied programs that will enable all classes to make the best out of the enjoyment.

The above program shows the various programs and the time they are to begin. The big event will be the street parade this morning with the different brass bands of the city furnishing the music, and there will be thousands of workingmen in line. The march will close according to the appended pro­gram, and after that the big show will commence at the fair grounds. In the meantime the hundreds of Midland steel workers and their families will be at Westside park, where a grand picnic will occupy the entire day. The program of sport that will be enjoyed there is elsewhere published also.

The society folk will be at the Coun­try club house this afternoon watch­ing the final golf game of the season between Muncie and Richmond.

The gun club members and sports­men of this type, have a big program at the Magic City Gun club grounds at Westside for the entire day and tomorrow. The minstrel show at the opera house; a ball in Shirk's hall and three boxing contests at the Interurban club house will be on the program for to­night, and it will be after the midnight hour before the shows for the day are completed.

Factories and banks will generally be closed and business will be en­tirely suspend in the city this afternoon. The postoffice will be closed after ten o'clock this morn­ing, and but one delivery of a holiday in every sense of the word, and you should participate. Old Glory should be unfurled to the breeze.

WHAT LABOR DAY HAS DONE

For the Skilled Mechanic — How it

Developed Into National Holiday.

There is no more interesting chapter in the history of organized labor in this country than that relating to the es­tablishment of Labor day. No other country sets apart by law a similar fes­tival, and its wide observance gives almost a national character. Its sanction by thirty-six state legislatures and by Congress for the District of Colum­bia shows the general agreement as to the great value and importance of the idea for which the holiday stands — recognition of the rights and dignity of labor. This open, legalized recog­nition is one of the many results of the evolution of the workingman from a condition of bondage and serfdom in­to a higher civil and industrial grade.

Labor day could never have existed but for the moral force of universal manhood suffrage under democratic institutions. Advancing civilization and our general industrial progress aided the movement. In each state where, the holiday is legalized bodies of or­ganized workingmen helped to bring about the enactment by influencing public sentiment in their respective localities. Where no date has been set apart for this celebration the state government will doubtless soon fall in line, for no serious opposition to the measure has been displayed even by legislatures which refused to enact other laws in the interest of labor — clear proof that the significance of the fete appeals to the popular heart and mind.

Much preceding legislation in behalf of the workingmen led \up, it is true, to the consecration of one day in the year as distinctively a holiday for wage-earners. The principle that gov­ernment has the right to regulate in certain respects the conditions under which men and women toil and to se­cure them time for rest and recreation had already been established by the adoption in many states of factory laws and factory inspection.

THE FIRST POINT GAINED.

The ten-hour working day for wo­men and children had been gained. Employment for young children in the mill and workshop had been restricted and previous schooling for them re­quired. Machinery had been rendered safer by guards and frequent inspec­tion. Wages were paid oftener and in money, not in "truck" and in orders on the company store. Legal observ­ance of the Saturday half-holiday had begun. Industrial schools had been es­tablished. Convict labor had in part been withdrawn from market competi­tion and eliminated from trade. Bu­reaus of statistics of labor had been founded to investigate and describe the industrial situation.

In line with advanced labor legisla­tion is the celebration of Labor day. All of the great trades union organiza­tions of the country contributed for the result, the agitation beginning in New York. An independent organiza­tion, the Central Labor Union, of that city, in 1882, chose for its annual parade September 5, when the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor would be in session, and its officers were invited to review the procession. The event was afterward referred to as the Labor day parade. The New York organization again paraded on the first Monday in September, 1883, and in 1884 a resolution was passed declaring the first Monday in Septem­ber to be Labor day and steps taken to have it made a legal holiday, but it was not until May 6, 1887, that a law passed.

Meantime, in other states, great la­bor organizations made common cause to secure general observance of the day as a legal holiday. Oregon was the first state to enact the law, Febru­ary 21, 1887, and New Jersey was the second. In Ohio the law was passed on April 28, 1890.

SIGNIFICANT FEATURES

The two significant features of this celebration are, first, that differences and animosities among the great la­bor bodies are laid aside; second, that of late employers are invited to meet with the workers in discussing topics relating to the welfare of the indus­trial class. In other words, the stand­point of the laboring man is constantly becoming less and less alien to that of the employing class, and the worker, on his one day or leisure in the year, is glad to share the point of view of men with a broader outlook thran [sic] than himself.

No better social measure of advanc­ing civilization exists than the share taken in public fetes by the laboring classes. From the circus and the arena of the ancients, where slaves and captives were pitted against wild beasts, the next step was in feudal times to the lord's fetes and celebrations, at which the lowest serf might be a looker on. Later, in the middle ages, the tenant became even a sharer in the games and feasts provided by the lord, but strictly set apart for the peasantly and laboring classes.

Under the present wage-earning system the workingman arranges his own games and feasts, independent of master and employer. If progress continues, Labor day, which is now class legislation, will in time give way to a broader anniversary in celebration of a universal labor fete based on the common achievements, not of one rank of society, but of all mankind. The cycle of change is not complete, nor the social millennium at hand, A truly rational Labor day will embrace the whole commonwealth, share all its members by hand, brain, virtue, influence and service will contribute on equal terms to the national existence and welfare.

MIDLAND STEEL WORKERS.

Full Program of Their Picnic at

Westide Today.

The Midland steel workers, have made all arrangements for a big time at their annual picnic to occur at Westside park. It will an all day af­fair, to which their friends are all invited. There will be a big dinner and soft drinks served, with a ball game, polo and much other sport. Following is the program:

Ball game at 9:30 a. m.; winning prize. $4.50.

Northside.             Position,                Southside

O. Steed.................Pitcher...................S. Miller

Wm. Langdon.......Catcher..................S. Haigh

G. Carnes..............First Base..............F. Ricks

S. Bloom...............Second Base..........Wm. Evans

H. Lewis...............Third Base.............Al Foster

H. Hinner..............Short Stop.............Ed Jennings

Wm. George.........Right Field............T. Mare

R. Harris ..............Center Field...........P. Flanerty

J. Bloom...............Left Field...............F. Milburne

Umpire Frank Stephens.

Polo at 1 p. m. between the Northside and the Southside; prize $5.00.

Fat men's race, 200 pounds and over; first prize $2.00; second prize $1.00.

Slim men’s race. 150 pounds or light­er; first prize, $2.00: second, $1.00.

Men's race, free-for-all, first; $2.00; second, $1.00.

Women's race, free-for-all; first, $1.50; second, $1.00.

Throwing the hammer, first. $3.00, second. $1.00.

Putting the shot; first, $2.00; second, $1.00.

Stand and jump; first, $2.00; second, $1.00.

Vaulting; first, $2.00; second, $1.00.

Boys free-for-all race; first, $1.75; second, $1.00.

Committee — J. C. Lynn, chairman; A. C. Lambert, secretary; George Mace, assistant secretary.

Judge of Games and Races — James Duffey.

Committee on Sports — Frank Ricks, H. Hiner, S. McKeag, Joe Boehm, O. Campbell,

FORMATION OF PARADE.

Who It Will Consist Of — Full Program

of the Big Show.

First division forms on Jackson street, right resting on High.

Second division forms on Adams street, right resting on High.

Third division forms on Charles street right resting on High.

Fourth division forms on Howard street right resting on High.

PARADE ROUTE AND ORDER.

Promptly at 10 o’clock the parade will move over the following line of march: From Jackson to Walnut, north to Main, east to Elm, north to Washington, west to High, south to Main, east to Walnut, south to Adams, east to Jefferson, north to Washington, west to Walnut and north to Gilbert, where cars will be taken for the fair grounds.

Positions in the parade have been assigned in this order:

FIRST DIVISION

James Unks, Commanding,

Advance Guard of Bicycle Riders,

Grand Marshal of the Day and Aids,

Muncie Fire Department,

City Police,

Mayor and Speakers of the Day,

Labor Day Committee,

Band,

Window Glass Workers, L. A. 300 — Window glass cutters, window glass flatteners, Flint Glass Workers, No. 2, Flint Glass workers, No. 91, Glass Bottle Blowers, branch 12, Flint Glass workers, No. 23, Flint Glass workers, No. 115, Mixed window glass workers, No. 7329, A. F. of L.

SECOND DIVISION

Band,

A. A. of I. S. & T. W. — Unity lodge No. 7, White Star lodge No 26, Coremakers union, No. 51, Machinists union, No, 35, Hoosier lodge, No. 4, Muncie lodge, No. 20, Industry lodge, No. 18, Knife Grinders union, iron molders union, No. 177, Bolt and Nut Makers, No. 6231, A. F. of L.

THIRD DIVISION

Frank Myers, commanding,

Band,

Carpenters and joiners union, No. 592,

Wood Workers, No. 22,

Lathers Union,

Painters and Decorators, No. 61 and 63,

Box Makers and Sawyers, No. 5,

Plasterers Union, No. 83,

Bricklayers Union, No. 9,

Brickmakers, No. 6,

Sheet Metal Workers, No. 115,

FOURTH DIVISION

John Purfeerst Commanding,

Band,

Typographical Union, No. 332,

Retail Clerks Unions, No. 66,

Grocery Clerks Union, No. 210,

Postal Clerks Union, No. 238,

Mail Carriers, No. 93,

American Agents Association, No. 44,

Cigarmakers Union, No. 308,

Bakers and Confectioners, No. 30,

Barbers Union, No. 28,

Butchers and Meat Cutters, No. 49,

Collectors and Solicitors, No. 8179, A. F. of L.

Broommakers Union, No. 37,

Women's Federal Union and Equal Wage Workers in Carriages,

Merchants and Manufacturer's Display.

RACE PROGRAM.

This is the program of amusements at the grounds:

Ball game between the police and printers.

Half-mile bicycle race for boys 16 years and under.

One mile bicycle race for union men only.

One mile bicycle race open to all.

Horse races — Free-for-all pace, free-for-all trot, free-for-all run.

Foot races — Fat men's race, three-legged race, 100-yard dash.

During the afternoon members of the Harmonie Maennerchor will sing several selections.

Immediately after the horse races five pigs will be turned loose in the track and the men who catch them can take them home.

The speaking portion of the program, which will occur during the day is an excellent one.

Mayor Tuhey will make the address of welcome, and George Derrick will respond in behalf of union labor.

Miss Julia Colliton, of Lockport, N. Y., will next be introduced and speak on "What American Owes to Workingmen."

Fred E. Kennedy, of Binghamton, N. Y., will discuss "Why Farmers Should Join the International Union."