Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-05-10
THE ElcHT-HouR DAY.

Popular Demonstration IN London In Itsr
FavOr-A Procession Three Hours Long
Disbands into an Immense Meeting In
Hyde Park-S0ciAllst Speaker Play a.
Important Role-The Day In Dublin
and Edinburgh.
LONDON, May 7.-English workmens
rs usual made their eight-hour demon
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. Tho .workingmen
began gathering at o'clock at the
appointed places of meeting in Poplar,
Bow. Deptford, 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 up in line with full brass
band at the head and was led away at
10 or II o'clock to the Thames embank-
ment.
BY noon the embankment was
densely packed from Black Friars'
bridge to Charing Cross with working
men of all trades and conditions, with
here and there vehicle carrying lead
ers and speakers with hundreds Of
banners, flags and transparenciesw av-
ing overhead.
At 1915 p m. the many bands started
as many different tunes, and fifteen
minutes later the head of the process
sion moved off toward Hyde Park. The
gas-workers general league of laborers
led. Following them came the dock
ers, then the builders. the riverside
men, the railway men, the printers,
masons and tailors Behind the tall
ors marched thousands of others
enough. in fact. to occupy three hours
in passing Trafalgar square. The
route from the square lay through Pail
Mall and Piccadilly.
At the park twelve platforms had
been erected in q great semi-circle.
All 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
the hands of the capitalist class. John
Burns and Keir Hardie, labor members
of parliament, spoke at length, each
progress of the eight-hour movement
in the last year.
The socialist speakers were more nu-
merous and conspicuous than in any
preceding year. They advised the
workingmen to attack conservatives
and liberals alike and to try to pre-
vent 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, Volgers, spoke in French.
Eleanor Marx-AvelinR, Karl Marks
daughter, translated parts of their
speeches for the benefit of the English
men. Stepniak, the nihillst, Ben
Tillett and Cunningham Graham,
formerly members of parliament, also
addressed the socialists.
Enormous crowds watched the pro-
cession pass to and from the park.
There was no disorder.
In Dublin a workingmen's meeting
In Phoenix park passed the familiar
eight-hour resolution besides calling
for manhood suffrage and the payment
of members of parliament.
The workingmen's meeting in Glas.
gov, after adopting the eight-hour
resolution, demanded the abolition of
the house of lords and the nationalist.
ton of the railways.
In other large towns of the United
Kingdom resolutions of q similar tenor
were approved by the working people.