The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-05-09
New York,s Demonstration.

New YORK, May 1.--Small armies of men
marching to the tune of Marsellaise and
other airs carrying aloft red flags and
transparencies, the latter denouncing all
%monopolies, approached Union square
tonight to participate in the great eight
hour labor demonstration held under the
auspices of The Central Labor federations
and s%ocialistic labor party. 1t was esti-
mated that there were 5000 people in
the Park and in front of the plaza and at
the side stands on Broadway and on
Fourth avenue. The police arrange
ments consisted of about seventy-ive
footmen, twenty-five mounted, a lot of
detectives and central Office men in citi-
Q n dress were also scattered through
the great crowd in case of any emery
ency. The main speakers stand was at
a cottage on the plaza on Seventeenth
street. Here English speakers talked
while speeches were delivered in German
and Hebrew from the stands on Broad
way and on Fourth avenue. Many
women were crowded in the throng. As
each union or delegation arrived on the
scene flags and banners carried by the
leaders were ranged about the cottage.
Flaring torches and red flags Of social
istic bodies, upturned faces of thous-
ands of wage workers, made a picturesque
and fearsome sort of a sight. Shortly
after 8 o'clock the meeting was called to
order by Chairman Lucien Laniel.
yXTL:1o kl,o oHosrooon rr,oc o11roooinr tho
crowd, socialistic labor unions continued
to arrive in small and large bodies,
marching to the meeting. One of the
socialistio bodies carried a red flag with
the union down. Laniel, when he had a
chance to speak, said that he hoped the
hearts of the working people would be
as stout as their lungs during the COZ:
fict for eight hours. The universal
motto of labor is
1--WE WIN, WE SHALL; WE MUST"
1t was high time after a century Of adj
~vancelnent that labor had its due. Labor
main stand. Features of this deliverance
we're: Endorsement of the demands of
the Paris convention; demands for con-
solidation against capital; statutory es-
Establishment Of an eight-hour day; resort
to political action to attain the ends de-
sired, and allegiance to the socialistic
party. After resolutions were read, H.
e.. Wiltshire, q wealthy socialist from
Los Angeles. Cal, addressed the meet
ing. His talk was short, but to the point.
He said the workman earned more in
four hours for his employer than he was
paid for wording twelve hours, and pre-
dicted that agitation for an eight-hour
law was only the forrunner to q
demand that four hours should
be considered a days labor. He de-
clared that the socialistic party wac the
only one to which the workingmen
should owe allegiance. The resolutions
were adopted with a whoop, and the az
fair at the main stand was over. On
Broadway and Fourth avenue were
trucks filled with socialist speakers,
| who addressed the crowd in various
tongues. Among them was e. Weiss
man, Of San Francisco, editor of the To-
bacco Journal. His subject was the COM
mon one Of all the speakers Of the even.
ing, that of ''The Grinding Power of the
Capitalists" He spoke in both Ger.
man and English. No outbreak occurred,