The Labor enquirer., 1885-02-14
Reyoiutionay agitation.

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A very different gathering was held
on the steps of the Royal Exchange on
Saturday afternoon to that which is
generally held there at that hour On
lany ordinary day the steps and ap-
proaches will be crowded with stock
brokers and jobbers, bill discounters,
bankers, and their hangers-on; but on
Saturday it was the victims Eof these
various Heecers who met there, and the
ringing cheers for the Social Revolu.
tom which were given on the very steps
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departure in the Socialist agitation. The
meeting ofthe unemployed at Bermond-
lsey Town Hall on the previous evening
was also distinctly revolutionary in its
tone. At both these meetings it was re-
solved to petition the local government
board. and if no notice were taken of the
petition, the meetings pledged them
selves to march down to Whitehall to
wait on Sir Charles Dixie in person. If
the social Democratic Federation under
takes the organizing Of this demonstra-
ton it will do great service to the cause
of the people, but 1T will require very
great care in carrying out arrangements
to ensure its success. t'!3 +
The unemployed Of Birmingham have
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also made their voice heard. One man
ventured TO help himself to a loaf of
bread, as he was starving, and was
promptly despatched to prison. The
unemployed are now protesting against
the miserable pay (rod. a.day) which is
given to the men who work at the stone-
yard relief works. f8 '.
7 In Italy the Socialist and republican
propaganda is steadily making way. Tie
best sign of this is the attention which
the movement is receiving at the hands
of the government During the last
weeks the Illabarda, Republican jour
nal, has been seized. The president of
Garlabldi club has also been arrested.
Our Portuguese contemporary, o. Seculo,
is pushing forward a vigorous republican
agitation. Republican organizations are
being formed IN every town. 1t seems
pity, however, that so much attention
should be paid to political forms while
the people are still deprived Of all social
lower.
Details are just come to hand of a.
large strike at Moscow. Some two
thousand men employed in cloth mill
have struck, because the employers have
endeavored to reduce the working days
to five per week in view of the depres-
sion of trade. To this the men objected,
and finally the directors had to flee to
Moscow for safety. The Governor of
Moscow then arrived with two hundred
Cossacks and three Ibattalions of infan-
try. The agitators and ringleaders to
the number of one hundred and fifteen
were taken to prison. The owners at
length acceded to the demands Of the
workers, and the mills are now running
again, but the district is much dis
surbed. .+
A military riot has occurred at Wien
sr-Neustadt in Austria. Some dragons
,hrashed the police and resisted, sword 4
n hand, the infantry sent to auell the
The latter were compelled
o fire, a dragoon was killed, manyt.
wounded, and still larger number ar
ested, Curiously enough nothing is
aid as to the cause Of this conflict Il
doubtless it would not strengthen the
oyernment in the eyes of the popula-
ion if full details were given as to thel
dissatisfaction prevailing in the ranks
+ the army.
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