Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-18
DESPERATIONINE ENGLAND
10000 UNEMPLOYED WORKNIEN
HOLD \ MASS MEETING.
Incendlary Pamphlets Circulated AmonG

HOLD \ MASS NJ EETING.
Incendiary Pamphlets Circulated Among
the Throng-BIood. Bullets and Bay
onets the Watchword - Connecticut
Strikers \ ccused of Trying to Blow Up
Hat shop. But They Deny the
Charge.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN, Jan. IAN at
tempt was made shortly after II O'Clock
last night by unknown persons to blow
up Crofut & Knapp's hat shop No. ., at
South Norwalk, with dynamite. The
shock was felt all over the city, and at
tracted great crowds of people to the
scene. One end of the structure was
completely blown out. There were l. Of
the employees asleep in the building at
the time, who fortunately escaped in
jury. 1t IS supposed to be the work of
dissatisfied strikers or their friends. Men
in the building in some cases were thrown
from their cots, and others shaken up.
The windows throughout the building
We're shattered, and heavy stone window
stills were broken to atoms. The strikers
dsclaim all responsibility for the eX-
plosiOn.
UNEMPLOYED ENGLISH IN MASS MEETING
LONDON, Jan. lin accordance with
previous announcements mass meeting
OF unemployed wOrkingmen was held in
front Of the ROYAL Exchange this after
noon. Shortly after noon people began to
assemble, and by 3 O'Clock fully 10000
had come together. The multitude
awaited the arrival of the speakers in
perfect order. Henry George, HELEN
Taylor, William Saunders, and other
well-knOwn radicals were loudly cheered
as they appeared upon the scene, and
were recognized by the waiting thrOng.
Speaking began at little past O'Clock.
At the came time radical pamphlets of the
most advanced description were meeting
with an immense sale. Some Of these
were headed, in bold type, with the words
"BloOd, Bullets and BayOnets!" and pre-
scented an extraordinary "appeal' to the
halt-staryed, herring poverty
stricken, parish-damned inhabitants of
the disunited kingdom.
The meeting was presided over by Mr..
Saunders. \ resolution was passed de-
claring "the depression in trade chronic.
Poverty and difficulty Of finding work are
/ intOleTable evils, which those who suffer
them ought not tamely to endure. These
evils result from the denial OF the equal
rights of man in the elements which the
/ Creator has provided" The meeting
pledged itself to demand the restitution
the land.
THE BLACK FLAG AT CINCINNATI
CINCINNATI, Jan. 17.-To-night an I'M
/ heralded procession, purD0rting to he Of
Socialists, paradCd the streets. From
fifty to seventy men followed a drum
and life. They carried black flag and a
red one made cut of paper muslin and
also aus03Tencies rudeiy prepared con
tanning incendiary notices. At
the Espiauade short speech
was made, in which the spe aker called
attention to the great number Of men out
Of work in Cincinnati, and hinted that
desperate measures would soon be re-
sorted to fer their relief. The speaker re-
ferred to hrohn, Feiss & Co, cigar manu-
facturers, saying that their striking en-
plOyes would yet even with them.
I STRENGTH or THE FRENCH LABOR VOTE.
PARIS, Jan. 1.-The French federation
Of Socialist WOrEmCu has ISSUED a mani
test0 showing that II can, if properly or
/ ganiZed, command 100000 votes at the
Lext Paris election. The manifesto inn
I plores the Socialists to devote themselves
/ to the object OF the organization, and to
] avoid premature attempts at grand
/ social revolution.
! REPAIR SHOPS CLOSED.
READING, PA, Jan. 17.-The Phlade1-
I phia and Reading Railroad repair shops
I at Schuylkill Haven, which employed in
brisk times several hundred hands, have
been closed until further orders. The
I rolling mill at the same place has also
stopped.
5000 PEOPLE WITHOUT WORK.
WILKEsBARRE, PA, Jan. 17-At the
conclusion of work this afternoon all the
collieries of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre
Coal Company were ordered to suspend
operations for the remainder Of January.
The reason given for the stOppage is that
the c0mpany's al0tments of coal for the
month have already been shipped. Five
thousand persons are out of employment.
ACCEPTED UNDER PROTEST.
FALL RIVER, MASS, Jan. 1.-THE
Spinners union tonight voted to accept a
reduction OF wages under protest, and to
postpone further action for one month.