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Show TIIE FIRST OF MAY. Tbe Proposed Labor Demons! rations In the Old and Sew .World. CHICAGO IS TO HAVE A BIG DAY. The Senate Jxrilce 1'tm.Ion Bill Again Comes Under Coa- (Itlerattoa. A WISCONSIN, MYSTCAY SATISFACTORILY SATIS-FACTORILY CLEARED UP. ad ArLantM Ucpaty Polnatcr Snt-rt la iftj Accounts ibon. X1300. Br Teiexrrrh to the News' JIAV-DAY. True.Alflltef-s.Intttlons iw lo Tl Cajs Labor Uemonatratlons. Chicago, April 30. Mayor Crei-ger Crei-ger tonight issued a proclamation referring to labor troubles and appealing ap-pealing to all law-aUdiug citizens to co-operate In maintaining the good name, of tbe city by preserving security sec-urity to person and property. rrnsnuRti tinners on strike. rnrsnuiiG, April 30. Three hundred tinners struck tonight for an advance in wage-;. The threatened threat-ened strike on the railroad is over, the executive council of the railroad federation having ordered tho men to continue work at the compromise rates offered by the company. INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT GOSI-1ER. GOSI-1ER. PlTTSBURO, April SO. President Samuel Goinpers, cf the American Federation of Labor, was interviewed inter-viewed today, and aid: Our executive council has asked every trades organization except the carpenters end Joiners to stay at w ork and not demand any concessions. conces-sions. When the carcntcis' fight Is over tbe joiners' will commence their tight for eight hours, and so ou until all tho trades In the American Federation liave gained one of tbe esscutlal rights of thcworkingmati. The clsht-licur movement ill commence com-mence tomorrow in a host of cities throughout the Union." I-OWPCRI.T'U VIEW!!. ScrantuN, Pa., April 30. General Gener-al Master Workman Ptiwderly of the Knights of Lator wai asked by the Asociated Press toulgbt for ills views on the labor demoi-strations throughout the country tomorrow. Mr. Ponderly said he had always favored an dght-hcurla w, although, at the same time, hu was opio-eu to the methods advocated to bring it about. The Knights of Labor had also endorsed itollleiaiiy. As he understood un-derstood It, tomorrow's demonstra-llons demonstra-llons were to convince the public that the labor element was greatly iu favor of alHrter hours for the toilers. toil-ers. It had been frttjiieuLly alleged that the cljjlit-hour movement was simply for ellect, aud Uiat the w ork-meudid ork-meudid not really favor it. Alter the demonstration of tomorrow It is to be hoped there will be no untrue eliarges of this kind. "iou will see that the eight-hour law l a most righteous one when you remember that a man can tr-lorm tr-lorm between the hours of and lZiu tbe morning more labor with the implements of the present than two men could jtrfonu in the two days of ten hours each with the implements im-plements used forty years ago. However, the solution of the w hole problem will come when the laborer labor-er shares the profits of bis toll. He will be then working for himself, aud lie can labor 7 or 10 bours,as he may desire." THENEW YORK TURN OLT. New York, April 30. According Accord-ing to tho authorities at the local headquarters of the Socialistic Labor Party there will be an extensive demonstration tomorrow. Arrangements Arrange-ments have been made for a irade of 20,000 men from fifty-five different differ-ent labor organizations. There will be no parade of the whole fbrce In a body, but each organization will march from its own hall to Union Square, where a mass meeting will be held. COAL MINER' STRIKE. Peoria, April 30. One thousand coal miners in the vicinity of Peoria went out ou a strike tonight for eighty-five cents a ton. They have been receiving 72j cents. They also ask that the companies' stores be abolished. One hundred union carpenters and 500 street laborers will strike for nine hours tomorrow. tomor-row. PlTTSBURO, April 30. A strike of the railroad coal miners of this district dis-trict will take place tomorrow unless un-less the Columbus scale Is granted by the operator. Several Uiodatjad men are concerned. " CHICAGO'S DK10NS1 RATION". Chicago, April 30. Tomorrow Chicago will witness a liugedemon-stration liugedemon-stration of worklngmen In the eight-hour eight-hour case, under the Joint auspices of the Trades Assembly and tbe Central Labor Union. Some of tbe leaders predict tbal 50,000 Ltboiiug people will marsh In the procession, Out tills Is probably an excessive estimate. es-timate. The conservative labor men say at least 30,000 laboring m-u will be in line. About one hundred trade organizations will take Itart, besiJes a large number of miscellaneous miscellan-eous worklngmen. The parade formed ou the West Side and marched through tome of tbe principal streets to the South Side and to tbe lake front, where it Is pro--cited to bold an enormous outdoor out-door mass meeting, with speakers' stands at three uiuerent points. Mayor Creigcr and four of the county coun-ty Judgva liave been aked to speak, but it is not et known whether they wiU do so. One of the novel features of the parade will be three or four hundred women and girl tailon-sses, who recently organized for an eight-hour eight-hour day. They mostly work in small shops In the northwest section of the city. The line will be headed by the carpenters and bricklayers, of whom fully 10,000 will march. PACKING HOUSE STRIKE. Chicago, April SO. Much uneasiness un-easiness prevailed today over the prospects of a big strike of i-acUng-bou-edistrictemplojes. All sorts of rumors were rife, and it was stated in the evening papers that the coopers coop-ers butchers and laborers would surely strike. The heads of the big packlng-houM-s held a meeting ami resolved to pay no attention to tbe laborers' demands. Tbe .coopers, who asked for eight hours, were Informed In-formed that the working bourscould not le changed notr. Tonight the fears of a strike are in a largo measure quieted. The executive committee reported to a mass meeting of th" men recommending recom-mending the course advised by tbe Federation of Labor, tbat for tbe present tbe eight hour struggle be confined to the carpentrrs. There was a long wrangle, but tbe president presi-dent of the union said lie would not issue a strike order. The Irdicatlons are that there may be a number of sporadic strikes In tbe packing houses to-nnrrow, but no gonerai movement. DETROIT STRIKERS. Detroit, April 30. The carpenters carpen-ters finally decided to strike today for eight hours and a 30-cent rate. Two thousand are affected. |