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Monday next is Labor day, a legal holiday in Kentucky. All the banks and public buildings will be closed and the manufactories and workshops will shut down in order to give their employes a chance to participate in the parade or in the speaking and celebration at Phoenix Hill Park during the afternoon and evening. It is expected that there will be fully 10,000 men in line, if all the unions turn out a9 they have promised to do. Preparations for the event have been going on for several weeks under the auspices of the Louisville Federation of Labor.The parade will form on Jefferson street, east of Eighth street, at 2 o’clock. The line of march will be east on Jefferson to Fifth, north to Market, east to Third, south to Jefferson, east to First, north to Market, east to Jackson, south to Jefferson,east to Baxter avenue and thence to Phcjenix Hill. The principal address at the park will be delivered by former Congressman Howard, of Alabama. Ed. F. Gould, of Indianapolis, will also speak. Invitations have been extended to Mayor Grainger and the city officials to bepresent. #John M. Stephens will be chief marshal of the day and he has appointed the following aides: Charles Dabney, of the Cigarmakers’ Union; Louis Muthler, of the Coopers' Union; George Graviss, of the Brewery Workers' Union, and William Tierney, of the Tobacco Workers’ Union. William Sweeney, of the Plumbers’ Union, will act as marshal of the First division; Charles Sells, of the Bricklayers’ Union, marshal of the Second division; Joseph SWomcnsky, of the Garment Cutter' Union, marshal of the Third division; George Peters, of the Salesmen’s Union, marshal of the Fourth division.Marshal Stephens informed a representative of this paper Wednesday evening that forty of the local unions had signified their intention of participating in the parade, and that favorable reports were expected from s number of others. It is thought that only one large union, the printers, will be missing when the procession moves.MACKIN~COUNCIL
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Louisville Kentucky Irish American
Louisville, Kentucky, US
Sat, Sep 03, 1904
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