The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-03
LABOR'S WAR In EUROPE.
SERIOUS TROUBLE BREAKS OUT
AT TOURCOING.

Strikers from Roubaix Join Those at
Tourcoing, and Troops Called on to
Disperse the Mob-An OIL Mill Pill
laged by a Mob of Riotous Foreign
ers at Marseilles.
PARIS, May "A dispatch from Tour
Going, an extensive manufacturing town in
the department of the North, states that
serious trouble has broken out there. The
hands employed in twenty-six mills at that
place went on a strike this morning. and
great crowds of men gathered about the
streets to discuss their grievances. The
crowd was augmented by body Of 5000
strikers from Roubaix, another manufact-
uring town a short distance from Tourcoing,
who marched en- masse into the latter place,
and soon the hands began TO show an ugly
feeling, which eliminated in serious rioting.
Military reinforcements were summoned to
aid the authorities in restoring order.
The number Of strikers at Tourcoing is
estimated at 10000. The streets and fac
tories are guarded by troops.
NOT UNIMPoRTANT.
Tho Journal des Debdts says, in connec-
ton with yesterdays labor demonstrations
buab IL WOulu DO u IIilSLdke 10 UT6at Lu6 Gel
ebrations as affairs of no Importance, Soc
ing that they showed that the workingmen
obeyed word of command to mark the
day in some form. The total number Of
persons arrested in Paris during the day
and night was 300. or this num-
ber only $50 were detained over
night The injuries received by a
number of persons during the row in the
Place de la Concorde consisted of slight
hrr A he H..
ulatIng the government upon the success OF
its precautions to prevent any disturbance.
and Parisians upon their prudence.
RoUBAIx's STRIKE EXTENDING.
The Roubaix strike is extending to ada
cent communes. AT Coix the strikers at
tackled Holden's factory, intending to plum
der it. They succeeded in shattering the
windows, when troops compelled them to
desist. They then proceeded to the tele-
graph Office, and wrecked the interior.
RIoToUs OUTBREAKS AT MARsEILLEs.
MARsEILLEs, May AT midnight dis
orderly crowds gathered in the courts
Belgunce. The police were powerless, but
infantry dispersed the mob Noisy groups
elsewhere were dispersed by the cavalry
patrols. A riotous mob of foreigners
pillaged an oil mill. Thirty of them, all
Italians, were arrested. One hundred per-
sons altogether were arrested during the
day.
1t is estimated that $4,000 work
men took part in the labor demon
stration yesterday. A large meeting
was held at the labor exchange, and
deputation consisting of forty presi-
dents of various trades unions and 300
workmen was appointed to visit the prefect-
| ure and present a petition in favor Of eight
hours for a days work. The prefect
declined to receive the deputies in a body,
| but offered to receive the members il they
would divide themselves into groups. The
deputatlon, however, had been instructed to
| be received as a whole or not at all, and the
party therefore reformed in procession and
| returned to the exchange. After they
arrived at the exchange the meeting quietly
| dispersed.
ITALIAN AGITAToRs AT WORK.
LONDON, May 2.-The Chronicles Paris
| correspondent says: 1.-THE feature of the
day was the discovery of many Italian agi-
tators among the workmen. The fact that
| foreign money is being employed to foment
| disorder is likely to SOW bitterness between
| the two nations. The measures of precau-
tion were most extensive and the result re-
fleets credit upon Minister Constans. The
people in every district were warned that
in case of trouble neither the police nor the
troops would make the slightest distinction
between those who did and who did not take
| part in the demonstration.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
says the day will be known as LA jouTTsee
| Tdtee.n
Special dispatches report an immense
| number OF eight-hour meetings throughout
Europe yesterday. There were no disorders
beyond the minor affairs already mentioned.