Show UNION MEN r IN LINE Thousands Unite in Parades Throughout Country DAY GENERALLY OBSERVED Novel Feature in Chicago Parade Was tho Contribution of Money for tho Striking Anthracite Miners Thrown into a Number of Outstretched Out-stretched American Flags Borno Along tho Route by Several of the Labor UnionsThere Were Picnics and Speeches Everywhere The observance of Labor day throughout the country was more general gen-eral than ever this yean There were paradej and oratory and pIcnic and business generally was at a standstill In honor of the dny In Chicago a great throng of workIng work-Ing men passed In review through the down town streets A novel feature of thin paradi was the contribution of money for the striking anthracite miners min-ers thrown Into a number of outstretched outstretch-ed American flags borne along the route by several of the unions PICNICS IN ST LOUIS In St Louis two picnics which were attended by thousands and a parade In which all the trades were ted t-ed marked the observance of the day The parade was the largest In the lila tory of Labor day celebrations In that city In East St Louis there vas an Immense labor parade nearly ten thousand men being In line PHILADELPHIA CELEBRATES More than ordinary Interest was displayed dis-played In the celebration In Philadelphia Philadel-phia from the fact that John Mitchell Mitch-ell president of the United Mine Workers Work-ers of America was the central figure of the t demonstration The weather was perfect and It ID estimated Lhat 15 000 men participated In the street parade pa-rade of labor organizations The principal event of the day was a procession pro-cession at Washington on the Delaware river where two addresses were made by President Mitchell All of the money collected during the festivities will be devoted to the cause of the slrlklng miners SHOWERS AT PITTSBURG Frequent ahowcrs Interfered greatly with the celebration in Plttsburg In the morning there was a large parade of members of various organizations and In the afternoon there was speaking speak-ing and athletic sports at Schonloy Park Business throughout western Pennsylvania 1 was suspended IN ANTHRACITE REGION At Vllke barre Pa nearly ten thousand men took part In the parade the majority being miners At Scranton Scran-ton twenty thousand men marched In the parade It was the biggest Labor day demonstration ever seen In that city The striking mine workers formed the entire first division and were over 12000 Strong The occasion was made use of to strengthen any weakness that might exist In the ranks of the striking miners AT NATIONAL CAPITAL Washington observed the day with i the quietude of Sunday All the executive ex-ecutive departments were closed and business was generally nuspcndcd Instead In-stead of a street pageant the labor organizations or-ganizations gave excursions to the Potomac Po-tomac river resorts BIG PARADE IN NEW TORK A parade with nearly 10000 men inline In-line was the feature of New Yorks celebration Besides the parade there were the usual sporting events and picnics given by the various political organizations FEATURE AT OMAHA An Immense parade of laborers headed head-ed by the striking railroad shopmen las the prlnclpV feature of the demonstrations dem-onstrations In Omaha The presence of tho strikers added considerable Interest In-terest to the days programme Several Sev-eral prominent speakers addressed the gathering during the afternoon HOW DENVER OBSERVED DAY A unique feature of the parade In Denver wuij a wagon suitably decorated decorat-ed In which were reeelved contributions contribu-tions of people along the line of march for the relief of the anthracite coal strikers In Pennsylvania The weather weath-er was perfect and about 10000 unionists un-ionists participated In the parade Other Oth-er features of the celebration were a picnic athletic games and a band contest GREAT PARADE IN FRISCO In San Francisco the celebration was more generally observed than ever before be-fore It being the first time In the history his-tory of unionism In that city that the laboring classes have been brought together to-gether In one great parade the three divisions of labor the Building Trades Council the City Front Federation and the Labor Council uniting to make the parade the largest ever seen there and to more closely unite the three central bodies In their efforts to promote unionism un-ionism Fully forty thousand men and women formed the procession representing repre-senting every union in the city immediately Im-mediately after the parade literary exercises ex-ercises were held addresses being made by Mayor Schmlfz president of the day and other lenders In the cause of labor In that city IN THE SOUND COUNTRY Seattle eelcbrafcd by I a lotal suspension sus-pension of work on which union men were employed and by a picnic In Woodland park where speeches were delivered by labor leaders Forty unions were In line In the parade pa-rade In Tacoma and It was altogether the lineal labor demonstration ever seen here OREGON SUSPENDS BUSINESS At Portland union labor for the first time In that city generally observed the day Business wag almost entirely suspended and the labor unions of the city Joined In a parade Throughout cue state the day was generally observed ob-served and In every town of Importance Import-ance there was some kind of demon strat t ion |