The Okie Legacy: 1892 - Labor's Great Day

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1892 - Labor's Great Day

As The Inter Ocean, of Chicago, Illinois wrote, 6 September 1892, Tuesday, page 10, "Labor's Great Day." Workingmen everywhere enjoyed a holiday. The country celebrated. From Hell Gate to Golden Gate and the Lakes to the Gulf. Business almost universally suspended for the occasion, nothing ever before like it.

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New York, Sept. 5 (1892) -- Special Telegram - The observance of Labor Day had been f=growing more general year by year in this city. Tuesday's official observances were under the direction of the Central Labor Union, the members of which represented nearly every trade. The chief feature of the celebration was the parade held that morning. In point of size it surpassed any parade of a similar nature ever seen in the city of New York. More than 8,000 men, belonging to sixty different branches of the unions, were in line. They assembled shortly after 9 o'clock in four divisions. At 11 o'clock the divisions marched up to the cottage on Union Square, where they were reviewed by A. F. Lovering, of Typographical Union No. 6, the grand marshal of the parade. Standing beside him were the grand marshal's aids, Wm. Tobin, president of the White Stone Association of Marble Polishers, and Eugene O'Rourke of Typographical Union NO. 6. Aldermen Wund and Flynn represented the municipal government at the review. At the end of the review the grand marshal and his aids stopped down from the platform nd took their places directly behind the squad of mounted policemen which had been placed at the head of the column. Following them were the officers of the Central Labor Union and then the four divisions in their numerical order. The Sixty-ninth Regiment band was at the head of the ranks. As the monster parade marched slowly along to the strains of martial music loud cheers arose, flags and handkerchiefs were vigorously waved and hats and other wearing apparel were thrown into the air.
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