Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-02

rAHlb, June SO.-h meeting COM
posed II about 5000 bakers took place
In this city to-day. Several speakers
= addressed the bakers assembled and it
was resolved to strike Immediately. The
bakers are in arms against the registry
offices and insist, as the price OF their
returning to work, that these offices
resolution had been unanimously
adopted the bakers who attended the
meeting formed in procession and, with
much cheering and inflammatory cries,
tried to march upon the labor ex-
change.
The processionists were headed by
number of their leaders and by men who
bore aloft the banners of the bakers
<rfys1,eties. The police, however, gathered
Hi force across the intended line of
E.arch, and when the bakers reached a
convenient point the police officers
ordered the procession TO halt and fur
ther insisted that the bakers should dis
perse and air their alleged grievances in
a more orderly and less demonstrative
manner. To these propositions the bakers
demurred, claiming that they had per-
feet right to march through the streets
TO the labor exchange, and insisting that
they were only calling attention in an
orderly and legal manner to the wrongs
from which they suffered.
aRocERs AND BUTCHERS STRIKE.
The police refused to take this view
Of the demonstration, and upon the
4 police attempting to enforce the order to
D disperse the bakers procession free
"a fight between the authorities and the
a bakers followed and some lively scenes
n were witnessed. The police eventually
Hwon the day, scattering the striking
H bakers, who fled ANONYMOUSLY through
<.the side streets of the neighborhood
a after leaving their most active leaders in
a the hands of the victorious policemen,
rs who triumphantly escorted the pris-
fsoners to guard houses in the vicinity of
~ the emente.
u As If il was not putting the public to
"a sufficient degree of prospective annoy
ance to have the bakers Of this city
< striking and rioting, the butchers of
n Pans have announced that they have
also determined to strike for a settle
ment Of several real or fancied wrongs
from which they say they are suffering.
And later came the decidedly startling
piece of news that the grocers of this
very gay capital nave joined the bakers
and butchers in the strike movement
The situation of affairs thus brought
about it must be admitted is peculiar,
interesting and alarming If the fight
Of the striking employees is carried on
TO serious lengths, it will not be long
before Parisans will begin TO Sc froter
le ventre, as an amiable garden de le
N paix, who had taken an active part in
n. dispensing the bakers procession, point
NNedly put it.
fsT REGARDED AS JOKE.
~ Without bread, meat or groceries,
~ green and otherwise, the regular inhabi-
W tants and visitors to this city seem
likely to be placed in an interesting po-
sition. Happily, the city not being in
vested by the Prussians, there is no
danger of any repetition of the scenes
witnessed during the famous siege,
when hideously-compounded black
bread was almost WORTH its weight in
gold. 1t is also probable that should
the bakers, butchers, grocers and others
push their strike to degree warranting
such step, that the authorities will
place several thousand troupiers from
the line regiments NJ the disposal of the
II naster bakers, butchers and groccrs
" hal that the various halls, markets,
fcfs de la halle tnarllet portersl and
1missionaires, male and female, fol-
Bslatter may join in the movement,
at thesve their work performed tempor-
ssIs s,.,lIy by the red 5preechcd infantrymeu
Tl'hus far thy whole matter is laughed
lat, and is regarded as a huge joke, but
Az there is ny Disgusting the fact that d
wholesale fand prolonged strike Of the
bakers, Butchers and grOcers of this city
4 or of any other city would certainly
cause considerable inconvenience, to say
the least. That there really is serious
side to the bakers, butchers and
groceFs' strike may be set down as 4
fact, FOR this afternoon meeting of til,
council of ministers was held at tht
ElyJee Palace, and the whole question
of Yhe present labor disturbance frcn
all fts points was fully discussed. Th,
reslblt was that it was decided that ii
thel event of the strike extending thu
bier bakers, butchers, grocers ant
4. iCojer suppliers of food must take meas
"A faes to provid, Paris at least with th
aon quantity of bread required for the dali.
fahA use of its inhabitants.
.fE Numerous trades met this evening ant
atJ, ,ypN.l money to support the bakers.
Mr. pst1e bakers of Bordeaux threaten Il
nv Mike if the demands which they hav
onld 6nmulated are not granted.
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