1947 Labor Day Association History
Weather – Heavy rains before the Parade then cleared off and sun shone brightly

Attendance – 40,000
Paramount News Reel cameraman will be here.

Blue Grass State Show will be on the midway.

Sidney Belmont’s Revue 8 acts on stage.
1912 Parade Route Parade starts at Hart and Water Streets. It will pass around south, east and north sides of the square, then moving north on Hart Street to Spruce Street and then on to the fairgrounds.

 

Parade Line-Up

Color Guard
Princeton City Police
Princeton Fire Department
Dr. Joesph G. Pepple Princeton Mayor
Princeton City Council
Labor Day Association Officers
President Robert Tuley
Vice President Oscar Tyring
Treasurer Henry Mason
Recording Secretary Joseph O. Batey
Brush Workers # 23640
Carpenters and Joiners # 694
Carpenters and Joiners # 935
Common Laborers # 403
Gibson County Highway Department # 152
International Association of Machinists # 503
Printers # 488
Restaurant Workers # 615
Teamsters # 644
United Mine Workers of America # 317
United Mine Workers of America # 352
United Mine Workers of America # 1396
United Mine Workers of America # 3437
United Mine Workers of America # 4343
United Mine Workers of America # 5179
United Mine Workers of America # 5584
United Mine Workers of America # 6669
United Mine Workers of America # 6873
United Mine Workers of America # 7661
United Mine Workers of America # 7693
United Mine Workers of America # 7819
United Mine Workers of America # 8188
United Mine Workers of America # 8263
United Mine Workers of America # 8554
United Mine Workers of America # 8805
United Mine Workers of America # 9709
United Mine Workers of America District 50 # 13211
Wholesale and Retail Workers # 416
Cub Scouts Den # 6
Princeton Band
Boonville Band

 

 

Best Union Float – 1st place – $100 – UMWA # 3437
Best Union Float – 2nd place – $50 – Brush Workers # 23640
Best Union Float – 3rd place – $25 – UMWA # 5179

Best Business Float – 1st place – The Model of Princeton
Best Union Float – 2nd place – Automatic Laundry Co. of Princeton

Best Dressed Union Uniform – 1st place – $100 – UMWA # 6669
Best Dressed Union Uniform – 2nd place – $50 – UMWA # 7693
Best Dressed Union Uniform – 3rd place – $25 – UMWA # 5179

Attendance Award – over 100 members – $50 – UMWA – 5584
Attendance Award – under 100 members – $50 – Gibson County Highway Department # 152

 

Attendance Award

percentage and display – loving cup – UMWA #5584

 

Judges for Unions

Howard Eskew – Boonville
Lawrence Filburn – Terra Haute
T.C. Fowler – Princeton

 

Judges for Business
Firms Elzie Blackford – Boonville
William Slavers – Winslow
C.B. Curr – Princeton

 

Sunday Committee

Roscoe McKinney
Milton Board
A. L. Thompson