Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-04-15
THE ElcnT-HouR MOVEMENT.

| ions of Chicago In Favor of the Eight.
F5our Moyement--An Immense Meeting
In the Armory and Big Overflow Out
.ide--An Anarchist Addenda That Wa
Quietly Ignored.
CHICAGO, April 11.-Fully eight thou
sand workingmen crowded into the great
armory of the Sixth Cavalry on the
lake front last night and probably
four thousand more gathered in front Oh
the building. The occasion had been ad'
vertised as an eight-hour demonstrate on
under the auspices of the Trades As
sembly. A large proportion OF the as
semblage came in organized bodies, pre-
coded by fife and drum, and carrying
huge transparencies. Few OF the men
wore any regalia, and apparently no at
tempt at display was made excepttn point
of Numbers. Neither was there anything
resembling procession. The various I'M
ions came trooping in from all directions
and first come first served was the rule as
To seats. Nevertheless, excellent order was
maintained.
A curious feature of the meeting was
the noticeable absence of youths and aged
men as well. The audience was almost
wholly composed of men between twenty
five and forty, comfortably clad, and few,
If any. showing sign of liquor. There
were not to exceed dozen police to be
seen about the hall. Interest centered in
the transparencies, and as union after
union at irregular intervals, marched into
the hall and the crowd caught sight OF
notices, the speakers voices were lost
in rounds of cheers that were renewed
again and again. "Eight Hours and No
Drones," "Work Eight Hours and Boom
the Labor Market and "Oppose Child La
bor''were fair samples Among the trades
present the most numerous were the car
penterS, plasterers, clothing-cutters and
cigar-makers. but long list of others
were not far behind in point of numbers,
George A. SchilliDg acted as chairman,
and ranged about him on the platform
were the leaders of the local unions, and
men prominent in the labor movement
Among the latter sat Judge Richard
Prendergast, of the State bench. Alex
ander Sullivan also occupied seat on the
platform. The addresses of the evening
were delivered by Thomas f. Hill, who
spoke of the progress of the eight-hour
movement; W X. Salter, who dwelt on
the economic bearing of the movement
on society, and L. H. Sawyer, on its ma
terial advantages to the wage-wOrkerS.
The crowds on the outside were held to-
gether by speeches from Richard Powers
and several other prominent Knights Of
Labor.
Just as the overflow meeting was fully
under way burly individual in long
coat, and wearing a shabby SLOUGH hat,
mounted pile of lumber in front of sa-
loon on the outskirts of the crowd and
began a socialistic harangue. About the
same time there emerged from the hall in
which the eight-hour demonstration was
being held file of men bearing a red
flag, having on it an inscription in Ger
man. This banner had been borne in the
hall while the meeting was in progress,
and being of dingy hue and kept furled,
was not distinguished from the half
dozen other flags, all of which were
the regulation stars and stripes. About
five hundred evidently earnest sympathiz-
ers drew close to the Socialist orator,
who proved to be an Anarchist named
Sam Fielding. At his feet sat his negro
wife. On the outskirts of the gather.
ing of Fielding's supporters were an
equal number of curiosity-seekers, max.
ing his audience a round thousand.
The first named class of listeners were
easily discerned by their hearty applause
of Fielding's sentiments and the fact
that their cries and conversation were not
in English.
He was succeeded by A. R. Parsons,
who violently assaulted the Knights of La.
Dor, after which his hearers formed in
line and marched to the hall of the Inter.
national Society. The only demonstra.
ton for or against the anarchists by the
general crowd were few derisive cheers.
The other meetings, both in the hall and
on the outside, were prolonged much
later. But few references were made by
the speakers to the existing railway
strikes, and then principally to point
moral N for fhn 70
ganize till strikes should be made prac.
tically impossible and steady work at rea.
sonable pay could be obtained by meas.
ures such as a general adoption of the
eight-hour system.
Though the strikers were left untouched
by the speakers, an expression of the
feeling of the multitude was given in the
following, which was adopted by accla-
nation amid enthusiasm:
Resolved. That this ss.meeting de-
ing his agreement with the knights of Labor
70 settle the causes of the present strike in
the Southwest bv arbitration. In his letter
Of Sunday March %, to r. " Powderly, Gem
eral Master Workman of the Knights OF La
Dor. Gould stated in substance that the
grievances of the men now on a strike on the
railroad system would be sub
nitted to arbitration. This was written to
powderIy after two interviews on that sun
agreement between Gould and the knights
IT Labor In accordance with the same
agreement General Master Workman Pow
1erly telegraphed the men to return to work
1t once. Could. he next dav. by falsehood
and double-dealing, violated 1t. and he did
MS plainly for the purpose of demoraliZing
'he Knights of Labor. We. therefore. de-
'er Is base in the extreme, and we call upon
he public everywhere to familiariZe them
selves with the facts In the case, and Judge
who ia to blame for the continuance Of the
or the Knights of Labor
Some of the city papers estimate that
he gathering numbered between fifteen
md twenty thousand. 1t was, probably,
he largest labor demonstration ever held
n this city.
and O'Neili's Arbitration Bill.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-General Mas.
er Workman Powderly writes to Con.
FRESHMAN O'Neill to say that his views on
he Arbitration bill have been incorrectly
eported and published. He is well
pleased with the action taken on 1t by
congress, for, aside from the merits of
he measure, it shows the growth of
entiment and feeling in Congress favor.
bile to the principle of arbitration. He
kinks Mr.. O'Neill's bill the best that
'ould have been passed.
Reception of the Chinese Embassy.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12.-Port Col
ector Hagar, Surveyor Tinnen and Su.