The morning news., 1894-05-07
EIGHT HOURS IN ENGLAND.
Hyde Park the Scene Of the Annual
Labor Demonstration.

Thousands of Men in Line and Thou-
sands of Spectators Along the
Route, but the Day Passes Of With
out Disorder Twelve Platforms
Erected for the Speakers in the
Park.
London, May 6-The English working
men, as usual, made their eight hour
demonstration this year on the first Sum
day after May day. Signs Of the coming
demonstration were evident all this morn
ing throughout the east end and other la
boring districts of the south of London.
The workingmen were gathering from
O'Clock at the appointed places of meeting
in Poplar, Bow, Deptford, Woolwine,
Hackney and Battersea. There they
were met by the musicians and ban
ner bearers and the beribboned organi-
zers from the trades council Each divis-
ion was drawn up in line with a 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 Blackfriars'
bridge 10 Chaeing Cross with working
men of all trades and conditions, with
y
and speakers with hundreds Of banners,
flags and transparencies waving over
head.
ON TO HYDE PARK.
AT 2:45 the many bands started as
many different tunes, and fifteen minutes
later the head of the procession moved
off toward Hyde Hark. The Gas Workers
General League of Labor led. Following
them came the lockers then the build
ers, the riverside men, the railway men,
tho printers masons and tailors Behind
the tailors 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.
At the park twelve platforms had been
erected in a great semi-circle. All the
meetings passed resolutions in favor OF
the eight hour day. They also resolved
that the wOrkingmen could free them
selves economically and socially only
after getting control of the political ma
chinery now in the hands of the
capitalistic class. John Burns and
parliament, spoke at length, each
congratulating his audience upon the
passage of the eight hour movement in
the last year. The socialist speakers
were more numerous and conspicuous
than at any preceding year. They adj
vised the worRingmen TO attack the con-
servatives and liberals alike and try to
prevent the parties from passing further
legislation before both agreed TO place in
the foreground proposals TO better the
c)ndit on Of the laboring class.
SPEECHES IN FRENCH.
Jules Guesde, the French socialist
leader Lafargue and the Belgian volders
spoke in French. Eleanor Marx-Aveling,
Karl Marks daughter, translated parts
of their speeches for the benefit OF the
Englishmen. Stepniak the nihilist, Ben
Iillette and Cunningham Graham, form
merly member of parliament, also ad-
dressed the socialists
Enormous crowds watched the process
sion pass to and from the park. There
was no disorder.
In Dublin workingmen's meeting in
Phoenix Park passed the familiar eight
hour resolutions, besides calling for man
hood suffrage and the payment of mem-
bers Of parliament.
The workingmens meeting in Glasgow,
after adopting the eight hour resolution,
demanded the abolition of the House OF
Lords and the naturalization Of the rail-
ways.
In other towns Of the United Kingdom,
resolutions of q similar tenor were app
proved by the working people.