Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — LABOR DAY VERY QUIET [ARTICLE]

LABOR DAY VERY QUIET

Day Spent at Picnics and at Race Track in Chicago. Minus the usual parade, which is regarded as toil rather than recreation, Labor Day was celebrated throughout Chicago not only by ths working men and women, but also through a general suspension of business There was no central or formal celebration held, though various nnions and branches of labor held picnics and other gatherings, the principal ones being the carnival of sports at Hawthorne race track, promoted by the Business Agents' Association, and the picnic of the Material Trades Council at Riverview Park. In South Chicago and in Blue Island and other suburbs parades were held and united demonstrations carried out, the one at South Chicago being attended by the Woman’s Trade Union League of Chicago The celebration was nation-wide, and in many of the larger cities the labor organizations celebrated with parades, notably New York, where 40,000 were in line, and Pittsburg, where the march was followed by the dedication of the new labor temple.