The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-19
LONDON LABOR ON PARADE.
Trades UniOniStS Get Up a Monster
Demonstration.

The Turn Out in Favor of the En-
DIovers' Liability Bill and Against
+be House of Lords - The Parade
Formed Along the Embankment and
Was a Motley One - Speaking in
Hyde Park.
London, March 1S.-The trades nnion-
lists demonstration in favor of the employ
ers liability bill, and against the House
Of Lords, was in progress all this after
noon. 1t transferred London, the Thames
embankment and the other side of Hyde
mark into an indescribable bedlam. The
whole district was filled with working
men and paupers, brass bands, process
sions. banners and truck loads of specta-
tors.
The weather was discouraging. The sun
was obscured by a mist, the air was raw,
and it was unusually dirty under foot.
Before II O'Clock crowds from the east
and northern quarters began
Gathering at the embankment along
the proposed routes of the
the procession From the north district
came the scum of all London. A more
sudden, beer soaked lot could not be
found in any great city of Europe. The
men we're but half clad in tattered, faded
coats. occasionally contrasting strangely
with brand-new trousers, which had been
purchased for the gala day. The
women came with babies in
arms and small children clinging
to their skirts. Family parties camped
in little open spaces, or in doorways, and
there consumed fruit, nuts or hot pota-
col in
along the walks. The London rabble
loves holiday, and despite their pitiable
poverty, the crowds INDUCED in much
horseplay, dancing and general picnicing.
THE PROCESSION.
The main procession formed on the en-
bankment Shortly before noon. Thou
sands took their places in the line, and
thousands more marched beside the regu-
lar parade or walked in the rear The
w0rkiugmen in the procession were in
their working clothes, somewhat tidied
for The occasion, and embellished with
bright ueckties. Some had new waist
coats a few new trousers, but the greater
part of every mans suit betrayed extreme
poverty. Mounted marshals, who grinned
sheepishly at their friends along
the route, led the line. Behind
them came the unions and the So
cieUieS marching four, eight or ten abreast.
Many women walked with their hus-
bands, some of them leading their little
boys by the hand. Many more filed the
vans and brakes which accompanied the
parade from the embankment to the park.
The rows of men in the procession were
huddled together and they marched away
with exceptional rapidity, yet the line re-
CURED TWO hours 10 pass given point
just of the embankment.
THE BANNERS.
The 400 banners in the procession rep
resented all the trades. Many of them
were twenty feet square and were con-
stantly being tangled with Irish flags,
mounted notices and transparencies,
which had been jumbled together with
out sequence or system. Vulcans andlnep-
tun es and blindtold justices, brooms and
rods and little cotfins were borne aloft on
platforms or displayed from the tail
boar ds of carts. One truck carried
conn With the Union Jack surmOunted
with the sign: The veto coffin of the
House OF Lords" Before and after the
truck came groups of signs such as
Down with the Lords;n mo hereditary
lawmakers :" THE Lords threw out the
employers liability bill; let us throw
them out"
The most troublesome part of the pro
cesson was the bands, for there were
more than a hundred of them in the line
and each Insisted upon marching In front
OF certain unions. Some times four were
playing within 200 feet of each other,
raising such discordant din as to con-
fuse those in the parade and
elicit jeers from the specta-
tors. In several cases rival bands
1el in side by side. Some came to blows
but most of them fought out the contest
by playing bass drums and from bones
with all the force they could
muster. The crowds along the route were
good natured and applauded and cheered
the contestants. This bedlam lasted from
noon to O'clock when those who had not
gone to the park dispersed to their
homes
THE sPEAKIN IN THE PARK.
The meetings in the park were attend
ca by the first of the thousands.
There were twelve platforms and more
IMAM hundred speakers. The most no
table addresses were made by Ben Til
iet, the lockers friend John Burns, la
Der member of parliament for Battersea
Joseph Arch, liberal, Member of Parlia-
Ment for the north west
ulUsiOn Of London; James Rowlands
radical, member of parliament for the
east division of F'insbury
michael Austin, anti-Parnellite Iumemb er
Ior the west division of Limerick
samuel Woods, miners member of parlia-
Aent for the Ince division of Lancashire
Charles Fenwick, miners member of par
lament for the Wansbeck division OF
northumberland; William G. Remer,
radical reform member of parliament for
me Haggerston division of Shore Ditch.
All the speakers were interrupted repeat