Volume 14 , Issue 36

Clarence S. Darrow, Labor's Foremost Attorney

It was Monday, 2 September 1912, in The Tacoma Times, that we learn by United Press Leased Wire, San Francisco, that 40,000 working men and women paraded San Francisco's streets in the greatest Labor day demonstration in the city's history and it was headed by Clarence S. Darrow, labor's foremost attorney.

The marchers assembled at 14th and Valencia streets at 9 a.m. and promptly at 10 a.m. swung out Valencia street to Market under the direction of Grand Marshal John I. Nolan. At the Ferry building the workers boarded ferry boats for Shellmound park, where Darrow delivered the principal speech of the day.

The line of march was packed with a mass of people. The celebration was conducted under the auspices of the San Francisco Labor council, San Francisco Buildings Trades council, Central Labor council of Alameda county and the city front federation.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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