The Portland daily press., 1894-05-07
SOCIALISTS NUMEROUS
In The May Day Demonstration Of
The London Workingmen.
THOUSANDS HELD AN ORDERLY
MEETING I'M HYDE PARK.

Among the Speakers Were Many Socialists
Enormous Crowds Watched the Long
Procession-similar Gatherings in Other
Cities-Ins Glasgow, the Abolition of the
House of Lords Was Demanded in the
Resolutions.
London, May 6.-Ths English working
men, as usual, made an eight hour de-
monstration this year.,on the first Sun
day after May day. The signs of the
coming demonstration were evident all
the morning throughout the East End
and all the other laboring districts of
the south of London, the workingmen
gathering from 8 at the appointed places
and meeting ip Poplar, Bow, Deptford.
Woolwich, Hackney and Battersea.
There they were met by musicians and
banner bearers and beribboned organic
ers from the trades council. Each di-
vision was drawn up in line with full
brass band at the head, and was led
away at 10 or IL to the Thames emit bank
ment. By noon the EN- mbankment was
denselyspacked from Black Friars' bridge
to Charing Cross, with workinxmen Of
all tiades and conditions, with here
and there vehicle carrying the leaders
and speakers and with hundreds of BAN
ners,, flags and transparencies waving
overhead.
At lis the many sbands started as
many different tunes, and Is minutes
later the head of the procession moved
off toward Hyde Park. The Gas Work
ers' General League of Laborers led.
Following them came the dockers, bull
ders, riverside men, railway men. print
ers, masons and tailors. Behind the
tailors marched thousands of Others,
enough to.occupy three hours III pass
ing Trafalgar square. The route from
the square was through Pail Mall and
Piccadilly. At the park twelve plat
forms had been erected in great semi
circle. All the meetings passed a res
olution in favor of an eight-hour day,
and also resolved that workingmen could
free themselves economically and social
ly only after getting control Of the polit-
ical machinery now in the hands of the
capitalist class.
John Burns and Keir Hardie. labor
members of Parliament, spoke at lenth,
each congratulating the audience upon
the progress of the eight-hour movement
in the last year.
The socialist speakers were more num-
erous and conspicuous than in any pre-
ceding year. They advised the working
men to attack the Conservatives ana
Liberals alike and try to prevent the
pdrtleS lEOln passing lurGner ioglSiablon
before both agreed to place in the fore
ground the proposals to better the con-
dition of the laboring class. Jules
Guesde, the French socialist leader, and
Paul Lafarge ana Belgian Volders
spoke in French. and Eleanor MARI
Aveliug, Karl Marks daughter trans
lated part of the speeches for the benefit
of the Englishmen. Ben Tillett and
Cunningham Graham, formerly mem
bers Of Parliament addressed the social
ists Enormous crowds watched the pro-
cession pass to and from the park. There
was no disorder.
In Dublin the workingmen's meeting
in Phenix park passed an eight-hour
resolution. besides calling for manhood
suffrage and the payment of members
of Parliament
The workingmen's meeting in Glasgow
after adopting an eight-hour resolution,
demanded the abolition of the House of
Lords and the naturalization of rail-
ways.
In other large towns of the United
Kingdom resolutions of similar tenor
were approved by the workingmen.