A Mobilized Feast for Mayor Daley

FROM a door of Chicago's cavernous McCormick Place came the glorious skirl of bagpipes and the thunderous roll of drums. Smartly clad in black jackets and Kennedy tartan kilts, the Eleventh Ward Shannon Rovers began their march down the 600-ft.-long red carpet. The walls reverberated to the strains of the Garry Owen march, the favorite tune of the guest of honor, the present and almost certainly future mayor of the city of Chicago—Richard J. Daley.

Mobilized last week by Chicago's top union officials in appreciation of Mayor Daley's "service to the working people," the banquet was touted as the biggest under one...