The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1901, Page 1

! 1183 ) EX: VOLUME XC-— 0. 94. £ R | | SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS STREETS RESOUND WITH THE RHYTHMIC TRAMP OF THOUSANDS OF WORKINGMEN IN PARADE TO EXEMPLIFY DIGNITY OF LABOR oHE =F THE STANDAR ) i | | PAGEANT IS WITNESSED BY NUMBERLESS THRONG Thoroughfares Are Lined With Friends of the Union Men, Both Workers and Strikers, Who March in Orderly Proces- sion, Bearing Banners and Keep'ng Step to Martial Airs rhythmic tramp of union men re- sounded in the etreets of San Francisco. Twelve thousand sturdy sons of toll marched shoul- der to shoulder in column of eights, form- g & sober-hued pageant of tribute to the dignity of labor. When the marching was over some thousands of those who were not too tired or too impatient gathered in Mechanics’ Pavilion and listened to other | tributes to honest toil, paid in the elo- quence of earnest speakers and the melody of musicians. And at night the men and women of the laboring classes mingled in a grand ball, where enjoyment was genuine and the turmoil of industrial strife was forgotten for the time. | It was the greatest of Labor days in all the history of the city since the working- man first begaa to celebrate a day of his Never before had soc many men | participated or so many thousands of ople witnessed a Labor day demonstra- own parade was the conventional pageant of organized labor celebrating the | éay set apart by the pation that the| wheels of industry may stop and the peo- | of labor. much beyond tke proportions of the pro- cession ordinarily Entirely orderiy, dignified and full of significance. seen upon this day. and for the most part the demonstration was unique In the long line that wound through the streets, trades of vastly different char- acter were represented. Skilled mechancs, the finest workmen in their craft that the world has seen, led the van, and in the | Wearing white shirts and. black caps, and miles of paraders that followed were men of other trades equally skilled and still others of all degrees of manual dexterity and mental training, down to the men whose brawn is their chief heritage and stock in trade. Workers and Strikers in Line. There were men who worked all the night before in bake-shop, or printing | office or press-ioom, and with little sleep or none hurried to the rendezvous to obey the mandate of the union. There were crafts whose members have not known an idle day in months. Of one great body of allied trades nct 2 man of them had Continued on Page Two. LABOR DAY PARADE TURNING INTO MARKET STREET FROM KEARNY, AS PHOTOG AT VARIOUS POI MARCH AND OF THE GRAND BALL AT NIGHT AT MECHANICS' PAVILION. BUILDING, AND FEATURES OF THE PROCESSION AS EEN RAPHED FROM THE CALL 'S ALONG THE LINE OF IN ALL CITIES OF THE UNION ~ LABOR DAY IS DULY OBSERVED [ William J. Bryan Participates in the Parade and Exercises at Kan- sas City and Delivers an Address Advising All Working- Varled Grievances at the Polls bor day was marked by the larg- est and most imposing parade of labor unions ever seen here and by the participation of Willlam J. Bryan in the procession and exercises. Eight thousand men marched through the OR three hours yesterday the|ple stand with heads bared to the dignity | Streets, grouped in their unlons, and each But it was a parade amplified | Union wearing a uniform. These uniforms | were made by locked-out girls of Garment- | Makers’ Union No. 47, who have started a | co-operative factory. The young women, dressed in white, rode in a tally-ho coach, and were cheered all along the line. Bryan occupied a carriage at the head of the line and was cheered wherever recognized. A striking feature of the parade was the Hodcarriers’ Unlon (negroes) 225 men, led by a negro band. In the afternoon there was speaking and athletic games at Electric Park and to- night there were addresses. The orator of the afternoon was Willlam J. Bryan, who was preceded by Mayor Reed. The big pavilion at the park was crowded to suffocation. Bryan took his text from First Corinthians ix:9: “Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.” Bryan sald: Bryan’s Labor Oration. Bach decade of our history shows greater production of wealth and the men who pro- duce it have less to show for it. Is this a good condition, & right condition? The solution of problems that confront us is In legislation, ’ men to Remedy Their ANSAE CITY, Mo., Sept. 2.—La- | for equal justice before the law. L not 1n legisiation for or asainst classes, but The strike to-day is the only weapon the laborer has, but it is weak and inefficlent. If the labor- ingmen were half as active on election day as they are in enforcement of thelr strikes they ‘| would right the evils which beset them. The greatest danger of to-day is private monopoly. Not that any one monopoly is worse than others, but the principle is bad which tolerates any private monopoly. I have heard that the true solution of the problem Js for the laboringman to divide profits with the trusts. That has been given as an argument for the trusts. Such a thing would be immoral and impolitic. It would be like dividing the spoils of the highwaymen. It would be permitting a man to rifle your pock- ets and then offer to divide the proceeds with you. To-day the only people who sympathize with you are the others who toil in other parts of the Lord's vineyard. In the present steel strike where did the first expression of sym- pathy come from? From Texas. They have no steel mills there. They are farmers. They are tillers of the soil, and laborers like your- selves. I want to warn you to resist the over- tures of the trusts. Beware when corporations ask you to join them. The farmers can stand the encroachments of the trus‘s longer than you can. The \farmers live off tleir farms. ‘When trust prices get so high that the farm- ers cannot buy, they will eat the products of their own Industry. Their wives can even go back to the primitive method of making clothes by weaving. But when the farmer can no longer pay trust prices, then there will be no more demand for the products of your tofl, and you can make no more wages. The offer of the !ruala to divide with the laboringman | | | | | is a pitfall. Can you trust the corporations to divide honestly? No! How many of you would lke to try a lawsuit when the Judge on the bench:is the opposing party to the sult. There are goood Judges, good juries, vet do | you want Judges and jures to try your case | when they are interested in the outcome them- 1 selves? When you permit private monopolies | to dictate terms of division, then you place | yourselves wholly at their mercy. You allow | them to water thelr stock and then expect them to divide with labor on a just basis, Fight Against Steel Trust. Tou are witnessing a battle between labor and the great steel trust. This trust was will- ing to unionize some of its mills, but would leave others open to mon-union labor. Why? | Because the trust wants some mills that it can | depend on in the event of,a strike. It is an ‘ | | i | | | unequal struggle, for the trust can shut down its mills for a year, but laboringmen cannot live a year without work. It is your duty to crush monopolies with the best resource at | youp' command—the ballot. Government by injunction {s an iniquitous £ystem, and one of the questions demanding | action at the hands of the American people. | The courts are the servants of the people, and | for a court to rule by Injunction is for a| court to dispense with a jury and to condemn | & man for violating a law that the court itselt made. Under. the process of government by | injunction the court constitutes itself the | power to make the laws, execute them and | pass judgment on the offender. The whole | thing is wrong. Under the system a number | of employers can organize themselves, go Inlni Continued on Third Page. <D R R 4 | the inspiration and DO AR ASSE M BLAGE V. MacARTHUR , PerssIpENT oF THE PA ADOEESSEE” THE THE BLACKSITITHS IN e LINE | | LABOR MEETS TO TELL STORY: OF ITS STRUGGLE James G. Magu're Delivers Oration at Mechanics’ Pavilionand Strike Leaders Make Addresses to Audience of Paraders and Their Friends and Families Numbering 3000 Persons HE meeting Pavilion which followed the | in the Mechanics’ | noon session. To the majority of the men who bore the heat and fatigue of the parade must have been some- |strest parade there was little about in- what of a disappointment to such of the strike leaders as expected to find Inthe afternoon gathering elther | an exhibition of numerical encouragement strength or of enthusiasm. Numerically the audience was little over 3000 strong. Quite a portion of the at- tendance was made up of women and children. The bearing cf the auditors was by no means as brave as the words of some of the speakers. The platform claimed a sweeping victory for labor in the present conflict. In the faces of could be read the hope that such would be the crown of their efforts, voices echoed the oratorical expression of conviction in a half-hearted manner and | | fthe pavilion, the the listeners | | prominent but their | the general attitude seemed more of a | longing for light tkan of the proud cer- tainty of success. The attendance would doubtless have | been larger but for the fact that there was no interval between the long march ) through the dusty streets and the after- | door reises to attract. They were thirsty and hungry. The weather authori- tles had provided a perfect day. The result was that after doing their duty in the parade the majority of the strikers slaked their thirsty satisfled their empty stomachs and made holiday for the rest of the afternoon. President of the Day Introduced. The meeting was called to orde throats, after 2 o'clock. The bands whi lightened the toil of marching escorted the marchers to their places in peakers were gathered on the platform with a number of those in the councils of organized labor, and the talent which had volun- teered entertainment were all on hand when Walter H. Goff, president of the San Francisco Labor Council, advanced to the rostrum rail and in a brief speech introduced Walter Macarthur, the presi- dent of the day. Mr. Macarthur congratulated the loeal Contmue;l on Page Eight.-