Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-02
A QUIET MAY DAY.
No Serious Labor Troubles Re
ported Anywhere.
The Day Peaceful in Europe
as Well as America.
The Situation Abroad Very Different
from What 1t Was Year Ago-The
Abandoning of the Miners Eight-Hour
Strike Prevents Trouble at Hoine--The
Men Losing Ground in Cokedom.
IN EUROPE.
May Day Passes Abroad without Any
Serious Labor Trouble.

May Day Passes Abroad without Any
Serious Labor Trouble.
LONDON, May 2.-May Day in this
city this year was far different from the
May Day of 1890. There was no labor
disturbance of any kind whatever. II
anything more than the quiet, self.
contained bearing of the marching work.
men was necessary to warrant this pre-
diction, it could easily be discovered in
Oxford street, High Holborn, Regent
street, or the Strand. In those parts of
trade the shops We're all wide open, and
men ran briskly about their manifold
affairs. Volumes could say no more for
the prospect of a peaceful day than does
the simple fact that the money changer
was in his accustomed seat.
The formidable dock-yard strikes, the
turmoil on the Scottish railways, the in
nummerable petty mining troubles, and
the recent upheaval among the Bradford
spinners and weavers all have passed by,
and yet the big city as a whole to-day
looks for absolutely nothing in the shape
of serious riot or disorder.
CrOakers win Croak.
There are, of course, croaking ravens,
birds of ill-Omen, flying hither and
thither with gloomy prophecies, but the
great mass of the business people have
come to the conclusion that such material
social changes as are to come to England
will como in good old-fashioned con
stitutional and eminently respectable
British way, and not as the aftermath of
the Wape-eaImerS' holiday
France.
In the French capital May Day
brought forth no trouble, 50 far as the
labOrer was concerned. The threatened
Socialistic revolt failed to materialize.
There were many meetings Of worlimen
in Paris, and in fact throughout the
French republic, but no revolt. The
minister Of the interior, M. Constans,
had concentrated troops about Paris, and
any violent demonstration would have
been suppressed at once.
M. Valiant, the Socialistic leader, in
speaking of the extraordinary reinforce
ment of the garrison of Paris, smiled
and remarked that on May Day last year
it was estimated that not less than s.
600, 600 soldiers were watching the events
in which five times that number of wage
earners were participating yet" con-
tinued the Socialist councillor, mot one
human being ON the European continent
was killed rs a result Of the May Day
demonstrations"
Nevertheless, the court yard Of the
Chateau d'Eau barracks was filled with
cavalrymen with horses saddled and
bridled, ready to respond to call to
arms at q moments notice.
Theshops on the boulevards are every
where open, and business is progressing
as usual.
At Lyons the worlungmen quietly
paraded the streets and enjoyed them
selves. Several small meetings of ex-
tremists were dispersed by the police.
LATER-Advices from Marseilles say
that a Socialistic demonstration took
place there. 1t was Of violent charac-
ter, and those taking part in it refused
to obey the order OF the authorities to
disperse The troops were called upon
to scatter the crowd and promptly did
so. A number Of persons were arrested,
among them being M. Antide Boyer, the
Socialist member of the chamber of dep
uties, who represents the Fifth electoral
district of Marseilles.