The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-05-12
THE EIoHT.HoUR DAY.


PoiSisr Demonstration In London In its
Faxor--s Procession Three Hours Long
DIsbands Iut4s arr immense Meeting In
HYDE Park-SociSfi~t Speakers Play an
Important RoIe-itss Day In Dublin
and Edinburgh.
LONDON, May 7.-English worknen
as usual made their eight-hour 2emon-
Stration this year on the first sunday
after May day. Signs of the coming
demonstration were evident all yester-
day morning through the East End
and other laboring districts Of the
south of London. The workingmen
Scqau gathering at $ o'clock at the
appointed places of meeting In Poplar,
Bow, Deptf0rd, Woolwich, Hackney
and Battersea. There they were met
by the musicians and banner-bearers
and the beribboned organizers from
the trades council. Each division was
drawn mp in line with n full brass
band ut the head and was led away ut
10 or IL o'clock to the Thames embanll-
aient.
BY fioon the embankment was
densely packed from Black Friars
bridge to Charing Cross with working
men of all trades and conditions, with
here and there a vehicle carrying lead
ers and speakers with hundreds OF
banners, flags and transparencie>wav-.
overhead.
At 12:45 p. m. the many bands started
as many different tunes, and fifteen
minutes later the head of the process
sion fHoTed off toward Hyde Park The
ras-wurlers general league of labOrers
led. Following them came the dock
ers, then the builders, the riverside
iiisn, the railway men, the printers,
masonn rud tailors. Behind the tall
ors marched thousands of others
enough, in fact, to oscupy three hours
in passing Trafalgar square. The
route from the square lay through PalI
Mail and Piccadilly.
At the park twelve platforms had
been erected in great semi-circle.
Ali the meetings passed the resolution
in favor of the eight-hour day. They
also resolved that the wOrkingmen
could free themselves economically
and socially only after getting con-
troll of the political machinery now in
lHt ldnuS Ol lut Cd dpltstliHl CidSS- oohh
Burns and Keir Hardic, labor members
of parliament, spoke at length, each
congratuIating his audience upon the
progress of the sight-hOur movement
in the last year.
The socialist speakers +sre more nu-
merOus and conspicuous than in any
preceding year. They advised the
wOrkingmcn to attack conservatives
and liberals alike and to try to pre-
vcnt the parties from passing further
legislation before both agreed to place
in the foreground proposals to better
the condition of the laboring class.
Jules Gerde. the French socialist
leader; Paul Lafargue and the Bel
gian. NOlgers, spoke in French.
Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Karl Marks
daughter, translated parts of their
speeches for the benefit ofthe English
men. Stepniak, the nihilIst, Ben
Tillett and Cunningham Graham.
formerly members of parliament, also
addressed the socialists
Enormous crowds watched The pro-
cCSsiGn pass to and from the park.
There WIS no disorder.
In Dublin a workingmen's meeting
in PhGnix park passed the familiar
eigbt-hour resolution besides calling
for manhood suffrage and the payment
of members of parliament.
The worllingmen's meeting in Glas-
gov, after adopting the eight-hour
resolution, demanded the abolition of
the house of lords and the nationaliza-
tion of the railways
In other large towns Of the United
Kingdom resolutions of a similar tenor
were approved by the working people