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Show BIG DEMAND FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE Two Hundred Thousand Representatives of Or-ganized Or-ganized Labor Parade. VIENNA, Nov. 8. Some 200.000 representatives rep-resentatives of organized labor made a demonstration before the department buildings today and paraded the streets of the capital In support of their demand for the election of members mem-bers of the Reichsrath by universal, equal and direct suffrage. The demonstration was under the auspices of the Social Democrats. Most of the factories and many oftthe shops and offices were closed. Petition Presented. The procession mustered on Karl's Platz and. headed by banners, marched to the public buildings, where a deputation depu-tation presented a petition for universal uni-versal suffrage to the Premier and Presidents of both houses. The Presidents were sympathetic, i They said they recognizee t..at lue. foremost duty of the Legislature was to listen to the cry for an extension of the suffrage which was reaching Parliament Par-liament from all classes of society. Must Wait for Parliament. At the same time, tliey pointed out the difficulties of dealing with so far-reaching far-reaching a relorn-. in the peculiar political po-litical and national condition in Austria Aus-tria and declared that it would only be accomplished when Parliament could meet tranquilly without being swayed by outside influence. The Premier, Baron Gautch Von Frankenthurn. piomlsed soon to lay the intentions of the Government in detail before the lower house. He said h- was firmly convince that tran- J quillity and order were the best moans of promoting electoral reform. |