Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-19
1 BRLGfHN STRIKERS VIM
The Chamber Grants Them
 Universal Suffrage.
A BLOODY REVOLUTION INVERTED

the Excited Populace-Resu1t Received
 With Great EnthusIasm--Strikes Being
 Declared OR-Several Severe Fights Be-
 fore the Deputies vOted-Four More
 Killed.
 BRUSSELS, April 19.-Belgium has been saved from revolution. With bowling mob of workmen surGing around the Par lament building, demanding universa suffrage or civil war, the Chamber of Dep uties, by vote of 119 against 12, with IA Deputies abstaining from voting, adopted report on the revision of the Constitution granting universal suffrage.
 It is true that there is retained provi- sion for plural voting by the property owning classes; nevertheless, it is thought that the poorer classes will accept for the present, at least, the concessions granted them, and peace and commerce will be re- stored.
 Riot, with danger menacing of worse, drove the Deputies into the granting of suffrage. The action of the Chamber was unexpected
 In the Chamber NJ. Beernaert, the Pre- mier intimated that the reports on the proposals for the revision of the Constitu- tion would be debated the next day. M. Demou at once proposed that the Chamber should suspend it's sitting in or der that the reports should be made ready for immediate presentation, and then as semble again at once to discuss the reports To this proposition the Chamber agreed The agreement was hastened by the pres ence of an enormous throng of people, ! who crowded the precincts of the Cham Der, evidently very much excited on the ! subject of universal suffrage, and resolute that there should be no delay in consider | ing that subject.
 Cheers within the Chamber were fol- lowed by prodigious acclamations from the | enormous crowd that awaited the result of \ the voting outside the Chamber. The | greatest enthusiasm was displayed every where, and the people joined in a jubilee in honor of the great triumph which they | had achieved.
 In view of the action of the Deputies, | the labor leaders have decided to advise ! the abandonment of the general strike | At the same time they decided to issue to the people a manifesto against the Nyssen ! bill, which proposes the combiratio Of | plural voting and universal suffrage.
 The leaders will continue to urge the | people to follow up their vict tory by agi- ! LaClQS uuCeaSlnSly TOT unlNSrSbl | pure and simple.
 ! As was expected the decision in favor of universal suffrage has had an allaying in | fluence upon the popular excitement and agitation which had been rapidly assuming | the dimensions of general inSurrection. The dread of a terrible uprising of the people, similar to that of the French revo- \ lution in its resistless rage against privil- ege and power, had the effect of bringing | . .<~Rp ,AoAt | the popular side.
 There were a few more skirmishes be- tween the police and workingmen in this | city in the evening, in which six rioters were seriously injured. However, in the dawning of the sun this morning the riot ous feeling that had filled the minds of the workmen for days, did not show itself.
 At meetings of strikers in and arornd | Ghent resolutions in favor of resuming work immediately were adopted. The striking dock laborers at Antwerp began their disorderly demonstrations again early in the morning.
 They took possession of the docks and marched along the water front attacking the men who were at work, compelling many of them to quit. One captain of , vessel from which the men had been driver away protested to the leaders of the riot ers whereupon the mob promptly stoned him and forced him to flee.
 The police in force were finally ordered | to disperse the rioters. A short conflict en sued, during which the police used theil swords and revolvers, and finally the mol ! scattered.
 The most serious disturbance that oc
 cured during the day is reported from
 Bourgerhout 0 village a short distance
 from Antwerp. Many candlemakers are
 employed in the village and a majority O
 them have joined the movement ill favor
 of universal suffrage.
 Those who remained at work were at
 tackled by the strikers and the troops were
 called upon to protect the workers and re
 store order. The appearance of the sol
 diery had little or no effect in quelling th | riot ard the orders to the rioters to dis | perse met with no attention. ! The strikers continued their attacks upol the "blacklegs" as though no troops wer,
 present. The officer in command of tn | soldiers ordered his men to fix their bay o
 nets, and then followed the order to charge | On full run, with leveled bayonets, tn soldiers charged upon the rioters and drov 5 them away. Four of the strikers, how
 ever, were killed and 15 others receives | more or less severe bayonet thrusts. It i certain that some of the wounded will die
 Great excitement prevails in the villag
 and the strikers threaten vengeance for tn
 death of their comrades. Here, as in othe
 parts of the country the men are in man
 instances spurred on to riot by the womer
 Embezzler Smith Given Seven fears.
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