Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-11-10
FOREIGN NEWS.
LORD MAYORS DAY IN LONDON
The Police Prevent Any Demon str tiop
bythe Socialists-The Procession Pass
es on and Nothing of Note Happens
Crowds and Crowds of Roughs Dis.
persed By the Police,

the threatened gathering Of socialists TODAY.
The police have made all possible arrange
ments for resisting any attempts at disorder.
AT an early hour shoals of roughs began to
emerge from the slums and make their way
towards the sections where the socialists have
arranged to assemble. Battslions of police
parading to different points, received hearty
cheers from the people.
The streets of the city and of the west end
present remarkable appearance. All the
shutters of the shops are drawn and barri-
caded and the iron ralings are boarded 18th
stout timber. Banks and other buildings are
secured IN similar manner. These precau-
tons are not confined to buildings on the
route of the Lord Mayors procession, but ex-
tend to remote streets. Suburban police and
reserves have been posted in prominent points
and large military force and all the house
hold troops are in readiness if their aid is
needed.
At 10 o'clock force of police occupied
the north side of Trafalgar square. The
shops in the vicinity are closed and doors ard
windows of jew-elry establishments heavily
barred. Hundreds of students armed with
sticks have gathered about the square. A
crowd of loafers arrived and ere allowed to
proceed TO the entrance of the square. There
they we're met by double line of police and
turned into the strand. Mounted police
cleared the roadway. The throng at Traf-
algar square 10 increasing to vast proportions.
The police keep admirable order. Sir Chas.
Warren, commander of the Metropolitan po-
lice, visited the square in the morning and
indicated the positions to which the police
men should be assigned.
tritiing encounter occurred in Trafalgar
Square at about noon. A mob, 800 strong,
md ttlor rnhi hCI ILL
police and separated. The police then cleared
the square and pushed the crowd toward the
Thames embankment. There the mob halted
and hooted and groaned at the officers Three
hundred medical students, marching five
abreast and armed with heavy bludgeons pro-
cesded along the Strand to aid the police
The Lifeguards were drawn up and formed a
Gordon across White Chapel, shutting out the
East End socialists. The Lifeguards in pass
ing through Victoria street were saluted with
groans by small knot of roughs, but ma
Jority of the collected crowds watched their
progress in silence. Two socialists called
upon Sir Charles Warren today and requested
an answer to their letter of yesterday, in
quiring why the proposed socialist demonstra-
ton had been prohibited. Sir Charles re-
ferred them to his proclamation, which he
said would give them the reason.
The procession started at the usual hour
and proceeded over the assigned route with.
out anything happening beyond the usual
horse play, incident to the occasion. The
police dispersed the medical students and re-
fused to allow them to occupy Trafalgar
Square. One thousand policemen are posted
at the square. The Scots guards were mus
tered in St. George barracks, behind the Ma
tional Gallery.
Tho crnwda ahout 60 ioor Cn,ar. ono
o'clock had grown colossal, the rough element
predominating.
Accessions were constantly arriving. The
police lined the streets converging on the
square. They also surrounded the square and
refused to permit any one to enter it. Efforts
were made to keep the crowd moving, as for
as it was possible. At this hour, | 80 p. M
it is expected that the socialists will attempt
to hold a meeting at three o'clock. If thev
do it 10 now certain that the police will be or
dered to prevent the meeting at any cost. II
is rumored that window smashing has oc-
Cured in Chancery Lane.
When the procession passed Trafalgar
Square 1t met with no denomination on the
part of the crowd except some unorganized
cheering and hooting, the latter being espec-
ialty directed Vt the Lord Mayor. After the
show had gone by, the mob at once surged
over into the Square and soon formed dense
throng about the Nelson monument num-
Der of men mounted the pedestal at different
points.
Some Of these waved red flags. The square
soon became q scene of excitement Recog-
nized socialist leaders managed here and
there to gather around them groups Of men
ready and willing to listen to speeches. and
although most Of the hsrangues were inaudi-
10 frn .tl,n
expressions and phrases we're often caught by
the mob and used as topics of heated debate
among the auditors themselves. In thi. wav
he vast crowd soon divided up into number
less excited groups, each having his own
spokesman and all independently noisy and
excited. The police did not attempt to inter-
fere with the rush of the mob into the square,
but formed a strong Gordon around it.
Among the speaker, who addressed the
groups was Williams, the socialist leader. He
spoke from the foot of the Nelson monument
He declared that the populace would show
they could hold an orderly meeting to let the
public know the amount of distress which at
present existed among the workingmen of
England.
Another speaker said: All the power of
the country 10 invoked to prevent US from
assembling in Trafalgar Square. Our reply
TO all this is that we are here. | do not de-
sire to use rash language, but | mean all
say. We want food work and dwelling
places for all and all will have them. The
socialists pledged the unemployed of London
that they would make demonstration today
to contrast before the world the extreme pow
erty of London unemployed with the ex-
treme wealth and plenty of the city's upper
clsssss, and the socialists have kept their
word.
We have given this answer to Sir Chas.
Warren. Resolutions of a proper kind will
be adopted and they will be sent to the Mar
quis Of Salisbury snd to Lord Randolph
Churchill and they will be compelled to
listen to them. The socialists will continue
their work until every vestige of tyranny
shall be swept away. Our organization is
the only one which dares TO take proper
position in behalf of the poor and oppressed.
We are not here to break the peace, we
are here to agitste iu peaceful manner for
work for all and soverwork for none. Reso-
lutions asking the government to provide
work for the unemployed and to reduce to
eight hours the numoer of hours constituting
a day's work, we're carried amid loud cheer
ing and the group which adopted them and
which had by this time absorbed nearly all
the multitude remaining in the square, dis
persed cheering for the promised revolution.
Most of the people who had composed this
audience at once went away. Others loitersd