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Show ST. LOUS IX LINE, She Looms I p With a Parade of Twenty-live Twenty-live Thousand. f,,n?.f-0AlJ?' Ma? Wl is expected that fully to ,,000 men will bo in lino in the treat labor demonstration under the auspices of the Amoricau federation of labor. The parade will be swelled bv the presence of the Knights of Labor and will be made np of die. book-binders, suoo-lastors, harness makers, machinists, ma-chinists, coopers, and a down other trades unions. Above all being the tcu organizations of carpenters. It is believed the. demonstration .will be followed by tt strike in one or more of the building trades, which will be precipitated by the employes of the Planing mills, as the carpenters already have eight hours a day. After the parade there will be appropriate exercises exer-cises at Schneider's gardens and the various va-rious halls throughout the citv. Thousands Thous-ands of badges in the form of a brooch, representing the figure eight, are conspicuously con-spicuously worn today, No extraordinary extraor-dinary precautions have been taken by the authorities, and no serious trouble is anticipated. |