The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-11-14
LONDON'S UNEMPLOYED.
Monster Demonstration in Trafal-
gar Square
IN CELEBRATING BLOODY SUNDAY"
The Great Meeting Was Orderly
Throughout, the Speeches Were
Conservative, and There Was No
Need for the Extra Police.

Throughout. the Speeches We're
Conservative, and There Was No
Need for the Extra Police.
LONDON, Nov. 14.-The demonstration
in Trafalgar square yesterday to cele-
brate the fifth anniversary Of "Bloody
Sunday" was attended by an enormous
crowd The largest open space around
Nelscv g column was covered with men
and women, who began gathering by
thousands long before any body appeared
on one Of the six platforms. On the
east side of the square the crowd reached
well into the Strand by the time the
speakers arrived, and the approaches
through Parliament street and North
cumberland avenue on the south side were
thronged for two or three hundred yards
back. Few policemen were in sight, but
in Scotland Yard a large body of re-
serves were held in readiness for action.
The meeting, however, was perfectly or
derly and the speeches were moderate.
James Tins, thel Battersea radical,
presided at the principal stand. The
most conspicuous speakers were Charles
Vanzittart Convbeare, M. p. for the
Gamborne division of Cornwall: John
Burns, William Saunders, M. P. for the
Walworth division of Newington; DIR.
Avelingsan Mrs. Aveling, Karl Marks
daughter All the speakers were cheered
enthusiastically, especially the Avelings,
who received ali ovation from the many
socialists present.
In his opening address Chairman Tins
contrasted the proclamation of Sir
Charles Warren, police commissioner, in
1887, with the intimation of the present
police commissioner that six platforms
would be granted. He advocated that
the open spaces of the city and the police
force be placed under the exclusive con-
troll OF tho London county council. Mr..
Conybeare spoke in favor of the city's
/ finding work for the tens OF thousands
of unemployed men now walking the
streets in search of work. He protested,
however, against the recent demonstra-
tions in Tower Hill, and disclaimed all
sympathy with the anarchistic utterances
Of the Tower Hill agitators.
Mrs. Aveling made probably the most
moderate and sensible speech of her life.
She said that the government might do
much, now lett undone, to solve the la
Dor problem, which would always exist,
whether in reBIblic, whether under
mere fgurehead like the queen, despot
| like the czar OF Russia, or an absolute
sovereign like the emperor Of Germany.
Burns Conservative Speech.
John Burns opened his address with a
mention of the fact that just five years
had passed since he and Cunningham
Graham received sound thrashing.
| The men of influence among tho work.
ingmen, he said, could best celebrate the
anniversary by seeking to relieve the suf-
fering of London's unemployed thou
| sands. He advocated the abolition Of
overtime labor among employees of the
| government, and in tho same connection
| he expressed regret that the directors OF
the Great Northern railway had not
been in the places of tho sufferers from
the Thirsk collision, as .'by good rights
their greed should have swept their car
casses to eternity"
In conclusion Burns advised the build
ing of needed public works in order that
employment might be given to idle
laborers. .
After the meeting the enormous crowd
melted away as quietly asst had gathered.
Hundreds Of red flags were carried by
men round the platforms during the
meeting, but there was little else to in
and anarchists.
Last night three more meetings wero
held in anarchist club halls to celebrate
the memory of the Chicago martyrs" +"
The speeches were, without exception,
violent and infiammatory. The speakers
invariably urged their hearers to follow
the examples of Parsons and Revachol,
proclaim death to the capitalists, and
hunt down their enemies, however and
whenever they could do so most advan-
tageously.