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Show Alter local speakers had addressed the crowd, a long preamble and series of denuncatory resolution were read. The main features of this dehvt ranee were an endorsement of the demands of the Paris convention; demands foi consolidation against capital; statutory establishment of an eight-hour day; resort re-sort to political action to attain the ends desired ami allegience to the Socialistic party. After the resolutions were read II. C. Wilshire, a wealthy Socialist from Los Angeles, California, addressed the meeting. He predicted that-the agitation agita-tion for an eight hour day was the only foreiumier to a demand that four hours should be considered A day's work, The resolutions ith a whoop and the affair at the main stand was over. At Broadway Broad-way and Fourth avenue were trucks filled fil-led with Socialistic speakers who addressed ad-dressed the crowd in various t unge Among the speakers was Wiseman of San Francisco, Demonstrations. On Mayday Were not soBad as Anticipated. Frogressof the Mc Pherson Trial at Prove Jfewsy XugetH, Clipped and Culled irom lSx- MAY DAY DOINGS. There was no demonstrations in New Orleans, but the sash and door manu-factores manu-factores went out on a strike. The Minister of Interior Constans of France was beset by a mob and the police had to rescue him. A mob com posed largely of anarchists, had a fight with the police at Clichy, four police men were shot. The miners are all at work in Ashland Pa Boston Stune Masons demanded 9 bouis a day. At St. Louis Carpenteis and joiners are out for 4 ) cents an hours, and 2,500 architectural iron workers demand 8 hours a day. Nine hours has settled the stone masons mas-ons Union in Boston. The Printers of Memphis, 1000 miners near Wheeling V. V. and the ' Shaweuee Valley are out on strikes. Six hundred teamsters have secured $4 a clay. Six thousand railroad miners in Pittsburg Pitts-burg are out. 3,000 brick layers and masons are out, and indications are very good lhat a geneial strike among carpenters, car-penters, masons and brick layers will take place in Pennsylvania. All the coil miners in Spring Valley III. and 300 in Clay county, Ind., went o 11 on a suite. An eight hour movement in New Yoik has put on stnke 4500 men. A great demonstration was made in Chicago on the question. There was a small riot at Florence, France. All was quiet in Paris, Soldiers had a collision with a mob of 9,000 at Farmies, France. Seven were killed and 12 wounded. At Youngstown Ohio, 500 carpenters threw d jwn their tools. At Cleveland a small riot was quelled by the officers. A number ol trades have struck in Chattanooga, Tenn. "'St. Louis, May 1. A dispatch from Coal Hill, Aik., sais uo strike will occur at the mines there, Marselles. May p This evening in a collision occuring between police and a crowd of roughs, several were injured and many arrests made. Des Moines Ia., May I All the miners in this vicinity struck to-day in obedience U orders from the state executive board About ten thousand miners in the state, will be aff.-cted by the order. Paris, May I. -During the course of the day Floquet, president of the chamber cf deputies, assured a deputation of men employed in various capacities upon railroads that they had his sympathy and support in the efforts being made to biing about a (eduction of wotking houis. , Marselles, May iA Socialist demon, si ration took place here this morning. The Socialists taking; part refused to disperse dis-perse when ordered to do so bv the authorities and the military was called for Thev quickly scattered the Socialists, Social-ists, many of whom were arrested. London, May i Innumerable telegrams tele-grams from all parts of the continent show that while there was a general ferment the wotkingmen nowhere show ed a disposition to cause trouble or loss ot sympathy of the public by illegal mani festations Neither have the predictions ot a universal strike been fulfiilled. The , Anarchists eagerly seized the chance to air their doctrines with the added zest of a possible scaffle with the authorities, an J the outbreaks recorded were invari ably due to their efforts and doubtless would have been more effectual but for the police and military preparations. Rome, May 1 A meeting of working men took place this alternoon near the church ot San Giovanni. There were five members of the chamber of deputies present. An Anarchist, speaking violent ly, urged the assembled men to attack the police. The speaker's words so excited ex-cited his hearers that a mob stoned the troops stationed in the neighborhood. Some of the rioters hurled stones at the troops from the windows of houses. The gend' armes then fired upon the rioters, and the cavalry charged. At :he same time the infantry soldiers neaf the scene of the riot were ordered to storm ihe houses from which the stones were thrown. A terrible uproar followed. When matters calmed down, it was found Signrr Eiirzllai a member cf the deputies; Signor Ciprani, Socialist leader and tweniy-tive othets had bepn seriously serious-ly wounded. One man was killed outright out-right bytbe gen d'armes' fire. 4 New York, May i. Small armies of men marching to the tune of the "Marseillaise" and other airs, carrying red Pags and transparencies, the latter denouncing all monoplies approached Union square to-night from various directions di-rections to participate in a great eight-hour eight-hour labor demonstration under the auspices of the Central labor fedtration and Socialistic labor party. Many thous and people congregated about the various var-ious stands The main speakers stand was at the cottage on the piazza on Seventeenth street. Here English speak ers talked, whilf speeches were delivered deliv-ered inGerman and Hebrew from stands pn Broadway and Fourth avenue. Shortly Short-ly alier 8 o, clock the meeting was called to older by Lticien l.aniel. While the chairman was addressing the crowd, Socialistic labor unioiis continued to arrive ar-rive in small and large bodies. In march ing 10 the meetirg one cl the Socialistic bodies was carrying the American flag jyjlji the union down. |