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Show FOR EARLY CLOSINC. A Croat Domonalratloai I.aal Nlchl la Support Sup-port of tho Kata'l CUrks' Union. At 8 o'clock last night the laboring men paraded down Main strett, headed by a brass hand and halted in front of Lipman, Wallerstain & Co's. All elasses of toilers were represented in that procession pro-cession and in tbe gathering around the speakers which followed. There were both horny and soft-banded sons of toil. The ancient order of the "Sons of Rest" kept in the background. It was in every way a notable, earnest and" temperate concourse of men who earn their living by working at wages for others. The men were out for a purpose. They bad a cause which they desired to bring before tbe people, not alone for the purpose of getting their support, but because they wanted an endorsement endorse-ment of the principle for which they contended. It was a demonstration in the cause of tbe retail clerks union, which akod that mercantile employers be content when they had kept their stores open from 7 o'clock in the morning morn-ing until 7 o'clock in the evening, and not insist on making their employes work the remainder of the night so as to be sure they would be on baud to go to work the next morning. Judging by the enthusiasm which was created by tbe speeches made in favor of the early closing movement, it is certain that tho sympathies of tbe peoplo is with the clerks. Their demand de-mand that only reasonable number of hours' labor be required of them strikes tbe average mind ai being a just one. So palpably did thia appear last night that it does not seem probable any storekeeper store-keeper will run the risk of personal unpopularity un-popularity by keepiog his doors open after tbe hour set for closing, i The processiou was a long one, and the boys were cheered tbe whole length of the street. A great mauy transparencies transpar-encies were carried among them being such ones as: "Purchase your goods by daylight." "Do your trading with merchants who close early." "Wage workers! we demand vour assistance." "Buy before 7 p. m.," and a lot more bearing; mottoes of equal significance. Arriving at the locality mentioned, President Sleater of the Federated Trades called the hundreds of people to order. No platform had been erected and the speaking was done from an open carriage. Judge Powers, Judge Bowman, James Duvine and John S. Davelar spoke, expressing sentiments sen-timents in favor of shorter hours of labor la-bor to which the crowd assented enthusiastically. en-thusiastically. They alluded to the agreement which had been made by the shopkeepers to close at 7 o'clock, and demand the bargain should be kept. Tbe people were asked to stand by the clerks in their demand that they be treated with reasonable consideration, considera-tion, and also that patronage be withdrawn with-drawn from those establishments which did not yield obedience to the agreement. |