Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-02
THE BUTLER CLUB BANQUETS.

All the News From the National Capital. THE EIGHT HOUR MOVEMENT. The Apprehensions of Trouble Gen. orally n0t Realized-Blo0dshed in Paris - The BOulevards Throaged with Excited People-A R1Ot at ProsnItz-Quiet In Vienna.
 PARIS, May LA row occurred in the Place d'La Concorde this evening, but it was quickly suppressed. Aprocession attempted to pass down the Rue de la Cirque towards the Elyaee The police barred the way and commanded the parade to stop, but the paraders defied them. The municipal guards. then charged upon the mob with bayonsts, wounding many in the front ranks. The crowd then broke. It is said that thirty persons were hurt. A large number l of arrests were made.
 The municipal guards left the Hotel de Vile at z o'clock. Upon their departure the crowd began to sing the 'tMarseillaise' and were .dispersed by the police after | brief scuffie.
 Another skirmish between the police and sightseers occurred in the Place de la Repub- lique at 10 o'clock. During the fracas man fired revolver at the police, but nobody was hurt. Several persons were arrested. l At Il o'clock all other quarters were calm and the extra police were being withdrawn. | 12:30 a.m.-At 8 late hour the boulevards l Place Chateau d'Eau the cavalry charged up- on the crowd and several more arrests were made The total number of arrests during the day approaches five hundred.
 l Reports from various cities and towns in the provinces show that while the streets are crowded there is nothing like disorder. | GENERALLY QUIET IN AUSTRIA.
 VIENNA, May 1.-Sixty workingmen's meetings were held here to-day, at all of which resolutions favoring an eight hour day movement were adopted. There have been no disturbances in any quarter of the city. A crowd collected in the Favoriten quar- ter to witness the workmen's procession re- turning from the Prater. The crowd disre- garded an order to disperse and began to howl and throw stones at the police. Mean while the procession arrived on the scene and rebuking the mob assisted the police to se- cure the ringleaders.
 A riot occurred at Prosnitz this. afternoon, growing out of an attempt on the part of workingmen to liberate some of their com rades who had been imprisoned. mob of four thousand made a rush on the prison with the intention of setting the inmates free, but they were met by strong body of troops and repulsed. A few of the rioters were hurt.
 The latest reports from elsewhere in Aus tria and Hungary speak only of quiet meet- ings in favor of a working day of eight hours at which the speakers exhorted their | L meeting at Prague @ speaker declared that the eight hour question was an international one and also demanded universal suffrage.
 Before dispersing the workmen gave cheers
 for the director of police.
 THE DAY AT BERLIN. BERLIN, May 1, 9:45 p. m.-As socialist
 demonstration to-day's movement was a oom- i plete fasco. The ten thousand men who turned out for parade were chiefly young
 men who were bent chiefly on nothing more serious than having holiday, and there waa
 no meeting or other manifestation of any | conseouence. The military were ordered out
 nominally for field exercise and the police 3 were instructed to ignore the workingnen ai far ss possible and only to interfere in cast
 any of tho men at work were threatened ol
 molested.
 DETERMINED STRUGGLE AT BOSTON. BOSTON, Mass, May 1.-The prevailing
 strike among the carpenters in this city fl quiet and uneventful as yet. All the signs a however, point to 8 determined struggle
 The preliminary work of the strikers in ap : l pointing pckets, enrolling the strikers ant 2 arranging the details of so widespread { d movement is about completed. A few mel !, are still at work, who, though in sympath, Q with the eight-hour movement, may no Is join the the ranks of the strikers till afte E. pay day. Among the employers there pre-
 vails policy of masterly inactivity SO far a
 Is visible to those upon the outside. Build ers iu the outlying districts, who are no
 identified with employers organizations ar W in many cases according eight hours work . 2 tractors to individual workmen are generall d refused, the carpenters contending for re Q cognition in their organized capacity, quit as much as for the eight hour day. To tn d casuel observer there appears to be no troubl V about the big buildings in process of COT ,t struction in this city and 1t would be sur n posed that g big strike was in progress. eer BIG PARADE IN CHICAGO.
 CHICAGO, May May day with its demoI = stration by organized labor in behalf of th
 eight-hour work day has passed withor serious disturbance. Thousands of laborel
 quit work for the day to march in the gre. r. r. parade, but by far many moro thousand n z. made it . holiday and, dressed in the n- Sunday clothes, viewed the procession d It was an orderly, good-natured crow as ,s and an orderly parade. Tho marching lir ly was about four miles long. It occupied tv E, Der of men in line was estimated at 25, ,0( e. te 50, 900. The carpenters, who have bee Ii. placed by the American federation of lab' TO TO in the van of tho eight-hour movement, l' id the demonstration with about six thousar
 men, including three assemblies ast at the Knights of Labor. They were follow. ss. by three thousand stonemasons and bric by layers. Then followed delegations from tl ne ne unions of the printers, metal workers ar !" molders. Then came dozen German turn nd societies, forming the second division. Ne
 marched tho furniture workers, cabinetma m- CTS, carriage and wagon builders, cigarma h. CTS, cloakmakers, boilermakers, gashttel 'e boxmakers, rattan workers and harnessma on CTS.
 DEMANDS CONCEDED AT PHILADELPHIA. he PHILADELpHIA, May 1.-Six master cs ,Se penters, employing two hundred hands, a m m' ter holding out until noon conceded the sn- demands of their men. The reception
 this news at the headquarters of the strik.
 caused great deal of rejoicing and strsngt
 ened the belief of the men that they wou :, win their strike.
 |. NO STRIKE AT THE STOCK YARDS. ed, CHICAGO, May 1.-The talked of strike
 the stock yards was failure to-day. Tn
 WAS no concerted action toward teasing we r. by the men, and the only trouble that Is n . feared is that the packers may tomorrow
 fuse to allow some of tho men who
 absent and participating in the parade , day to go back to work.
 N TWO THOUSAND STRIKE AT DETROIT. " DETROIT, Mieh., May Fully 2,oO0 c
 penters are out in this oity to day.
 strike is expected to be short lived, howev as the principal contractors are oonceding
 mems demands and it Is thought work ta be pretty generally resumed tomorrow. sO' NoN-uNIoN TOWN.
 KANsAs CITY, Mo-. May 1.-Kansas {
 is non,union town. Consequently tl has bsen no agitation of the eight-hour q ,. ton and there is practically no prospse