First Labor Day Parade, Tuesday, September 5, 1882 Media Mirrors to Labor's Icons

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.Watts, Theodore F. is the author of 'First Labor Day Parade, Tuesday, September 5, 1882 Media Mirrors to Labor's Icons' with ISBN 9780961031404 and ISBN 0961031409.