Theodore F. Watts' "The First Labor Day Parade" investigates the sources for that event, which took place on September 5, 1882. Based largely on accounts published in the commercial daily press, (including such papers as The New York Times, The Irish World, & The Sun) the booklet includes sections on labor & the press, labor in the post Civil War era, earlier marches (like the Eight-Hour Day March, September 13,1871 & the Paris Commune Memorial March, December 17, 1871), planning the parade, the parade route, & parade ...
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Theodore F. Watts' "The First Labor Day Parade" investigates the sources for that event, which took place on September 5, 1882. Based largely on accounts published in the commercial daily press, (including such papers as The New York Times, The Irish World, & The Sun) the booklet includes sections on labor & the press, labor in the post Civil War era, earlier marches (like the Eight-Hour Day March, September 13,1871 & the Paris Commune Memorial March, December 17, 1871), planning the parade, the parade route, & parade dispersal. Includes newspaper clippings & illustrations, pictures of buttons with slogans, broadsides, handbills, & advertisements for the parade. Also includes a bibliography.
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8vo, pp. 72. Bibliography, appendices. Illustrated. Paper wraps. Edges and cover slightly spotted, o/w a VG tight copy. The demonstration, in 1882, was the embodiment of more than ten years of agitation for an 8-hour day.
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