The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-02
EUROPE'S MAYDAY RIOTS.
Socialists and Anarchists Busy in
France.

ItQUOC,
Hussars Called Out to Aid the Police
at Paris-Isolated Officers Attacked
by Rufians at Night and Badly
Beaten-A Fight at Close Quarters
at Marseilles.
Paris, May 1.-Several Populations of
socialists and others visited the legis-
lative chambers to-day to present petit
tions in behalf of an s-hOur law. At the
Chamber of Deputies the delegations
were received by the socialist members of
that body and the petitions were duly
presented Some disorder occurred dur
ing the day in the Place della Republique,
where groups of agitatOrs tried to create
a demonstration Police dispersed
the groups and arrested
workingman, who was unfurling a
red flag. They arrested a leader of the
extremists named Baudin, who was head
ing small procession. Baudin was de-
tanned only while the police were dispers-
ing several groups of workingmen in the
place De la Republique and in the near
by streets. BY united effort, the mill
tary and police eventually split the mob
and drove off the gang of rioters.
This evening bands of ruf1ians are MAX
ing attacks upon isolated policemen.
Every officer whom they capture is
beaten dragged in the street and half
stripped of his clothing.
In several distr lets disorderly crowds
are still parading.
Toward evening the crowds in the
streets of Marseilles became very dis
orderly. The police tried to arrest several
socialists who were waving red flags and
were melting the workingmen to violence.
The crowd resisted. A fight in which the
police were worsted followed Hussars
were summoned to help the police, and a
general fight at close quarters was begun.
Reports received up to / o'clock to-
night show that but four riots occurred
in Marseilles. The day passed without
serious disturbances in the provinces.
THE DAY AT BERLIN.
Berlin. May 1.-The weather was un-
favorable to the open air celebration of
Mayday, but as the day progressed there
was some turbulence among the work.
men. The police compelled a meeting of
anarchists to dispense. The speakers
were urging the workingmen to revolt
against the government, and also urging
the soldiers not to obey the emperor
Socialist meetings held in various halls
were so far as known, not attended by
any disorder. Those present at the
meetings voted without any extravagant
or disquieting demonstration in favor of
eight hours as the limit of daily toll. Six
hundred Independent socialists and anar-
chists were permitted to have process
sion in the eastern districts of the city.
AT midnight no Mayday troubles of
any significance had been reported from
any city of the empire
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BIG MEETING AT VIENNA.
Vienna, May 1-Fifty-six meetings
were held by workmen in the suburbs
to-day. The police were kept out
of sight and no effort was
made to harass the speakers or dissolve
the audiences. The streets leading to that
part of the prater where the principal
demonstration was made We're filled with
irregular professions of wOrkingmen. At
o'clock this afternoon 100000 men and
women were massed on the prater. They
sang labor songs, the "Marseillaise" and
other revolutionary hymns, cheered the
Spe akerS who demanded universal Suf-
frage and at $50 o'clock began their
march through the city A
few more policemen were then
on duty, but they sufficed
only 10 regulate traffic and prevent the
crowds from gathering i'm the way of the
parados. Invariably they avoided all ac-
tion calculated 10 annoy the .worl1ingmen.
All the soldiers were confined in their
barracks. As several thousand laborers
passed Emperor Franz Joseph barracks,
they cheered the soldiers watching at the
windows and when the soldiers cheered
back the laborers waved their hats and
handEerchiefs. The incident illustrated
well the good feeling which has prevailed
in the city throughout the day
Reports from all parts of the empire
show that the day passed TRANQUILITY in all
the cities of Austria and Hungary
CHARGED WITH DRAWN SWORDS.
Amsterdam, May 1.-The socialists of
Groningen, led by an agitator named
Niewhuis, marched through the streets
OF that city this afternoon and refused to
disperse at the command of the police
.commissary. The police then charged
with drawn swords and cleared the
streets. Several socialists were wounded.