St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-11

assembly. A large proportion of the as
sem blage came in organized bo dies pre-
ceded by fife and drum and carrying huge
tran sparencies. Few OF them wore any
regalia and apparently no attempt
at display was made except in
point of numbers. Neither was there any
thing resembling procession. The various
unions came tro0ping in all directions and
first come first served was the rule as to
seats. Nevertheless excellent order was
maintained, hats were promptly removed
at the first tap of the chairman's gavel. and
the two or three hundred of the mems
wives and sweethearts. who occupied tiers
of seats in place of honor, were shown
marked consideration by the aDadoment of
pipes and cigars in their vicinity. A Curl
Gus feature of the meeting was the notice
able absence of youths, and aged
men rs well. The audience was
almost wholly composed of men
between % and 40, comfortable clad
and few if any showing a sign of liquor
There were not TO exceed dozen police to
be seen in or about the hall. Interest cen
tered in the tranSpaTencies, and as union
after union at irregular intervals marched
into the hall and the crowd caught sight Of
THE NOTICES
the speakers voices were lost In rounds of
Eight Hours and No Drones," Work
Eight Hours Only and Boom the Labor
Market and Oppose Child Labor" were
fair samples. Among the trades repre-
sented the most numerous were the carpen-
terS, plasterers, clothing cutters and cigar
makers, but a long list of others were
not far behind in point of numbers.
George A. Schilling acted as chairman.
Ranged about him on the platform were
the leaders of the local unions and men
prominent in the labor movement. Anon.
the latter sat Judge Richard Prendigast o.
the state bench. Alexander Sullivan ais,
occupied seat on the platform. The ad
dress of the evening was delivered by
Thomas c. Hill, who spoke of The Prog
reSs of the Eight-hour Movement; w. ii.
Salter, on The Economic Bearing of tn,
Movement on Society, and l.. ii.
tageS to the Wage-worller. Thu
crowds on the outside were held together
by speeches from Richard Powers and sey-
eral other prominent Knights of Labor.
Just as the overflow meeting was full!
under way burly individual in long coai
and wearing shabby slouch hat mOunteO
a pile of lumber i'm front of q saloon on the
outskirts of the crowd and began
soCIALIsTIC HARANGUE.
About the same time there emerged from
the hall in which the eight hour demon
stratiOn was being held. file of men bear
ing red flag, having on it an Inscription.
in German. This banner had been bornt
into the hall while the meeting was in pro
gress, and being of dingy hue and KEEP.
furled was not distinguished from the half
dozen other flags, all of which were thJ
regulation stars and stripes. About so
evidently earnest sympathizers drew close
TO the SOcialistic orator. who proved TO b,
an Anarchist named Sam Fielding. at his
feet sat his negro wife. On the OutskiTt.
of the gathering of Fielding's supporter
were an equal number of curl
Osity seekers, making his audi
ence a round thousand. The first
named class of listeners were easily discerned
bv their hearty approval of FieldiDgs Sen-
timents. and the fact that their cries and
conversation were not in English. In
quiries directed TO the two men who bOn
the red flag developed the fact that neither
of them could speak the language i'm whicl
Fielding was addressing the crowd. Ii,
was succeeded by A. r. Parsons. VIII,
violently assailed the Knights of Labor
after which his hearers formed in line and
marched to the hall of The international
society. The only demonstration fol
or against the Anarchists by the
general crowd were a few derisiv
shouts. 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 A MORAL
in their arguments for the masses TO or
ganiZe till strikes should be made practic
ally impossible and steady work at reason.
able pay could be obtained by means such
as general adoption of the eight-hOur sys-
TEN. Though the strikes were practically
left untouched by the speakers, an expires
sion of the feeling of the multitude was
given in the following, which was adopted
by acclamatiOn amid the widest enthu-
Siasm:
Resolved, That this mass meeting OF citi-
Zens of Chicago denounces the perfidy of
Jay Gould in breaking his agreement with
the Knights of Labor to settle the causes of
the present strike In the Southwest by
arbitration. BY his letter of SUNDAY, March
%, last, 10 T. V. Powderly, general master
workman of the knights of Labor. Gould
stated in substance that the grievances ofthe
men now on strike on the Southwestern rail-
road system would be submitted TO arbitra-
ton. This letter was written to Powderly
after two interviews on that Sunday
at Gould's house and as part OF
the aregement between Gould and the
Knights of Labor. I'm accordance with the
same agreement, General Master Workman
! Powderly telegraphed the men on strike to
return to work at once. Gould the next day,
| by falsehood and double dealing, violated
this agreement, and he did this plainly for
the purpose of demoralZing the Knights of
Labor. We. Therefore, declare that the con-
duct of Gould in this matter is base IN the ex-
treme. and we call upon the public every
where to familiarize themselves with the
Il n - Tv.sgW~ T..
blame for the continuance of the strike
Gould, or the Knights of Labor. Some of the
city papers estimate the gathering numbered
between $1,000 and 10000 men. 1t was prob
ably the largest labor demonstration ever
held In the city.