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Show 1AB0K DAY IN NEW YOKK. Forty. Five Thousand Men Parade the Streets of Gotham, New York, Sopt. 1. Labor Day was celebrated today in a grander style than ever. All government and municipal oflicos, banks, etc. closed. The city is gaily decorated with (lags of all nations and hundreds of thousands of people lined tho sidewalks on the route of tho procession. There were two narades. That of the central labor union which look place in the west side of the city and that of the central labor federation which stirred up the denizens of east sitle. At least 25,000 men turned out in the latter, while the central labor union marshalled mar-shalled 20,000. The socialists look a very active part in the east side parade. |