Show i Belgian A large largo working workingmen's ens en's congress was held beld at Brussels on the for the purpose ol of discussing the best means to t compel Parliament Parlia Parlia- Parla Parlament ment to t grant universal suffrage It I was wa re resolved resolved re- re re solved to to organize an enormous demonstration for May ay 1 Hundreds of thousands of workIngmen work work- Ingmen ingen are arc demanding universal suffrage surge But three eighths of the delegates delegat to t the congress decided against a general strike as asan asa asan an a additional means of bringing pressure presure on the government nt because of the misery and coffering ng caused by last lat years year's strike It I will however be resorted to in lii ease case e the revision of oftIe tile tIe constitution does dos not grant gant universal suffrage A proposition to present an ad- ad a. a to t the te king was wa rejected on tho the ground that a majority of the workingmen are Socialists Socialists So So- So calit and Republicans who want to have bave nothing noting to do with wIt the sovereign t |