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Show i xv dkv uses eh. . 50 tentr per hour. All of these men were employed by members of the waiters' wai-ters' association. The demands of th3 men 'were era n ted by independent employer em-ployer ana 900 carpenters .remained at work, v ' : - DENVER, May 1. Union millmeq and wood ' workers employed in the planing mills and lumber yards of this city went on. strike today to enforce their demand for a closed shop. About 1000 men are involved. No shops were compelled to close, as, the non-union men continued at work. A' sympathetic sympa-thetic strike in the building trades may follow. . COLUMBUS. 67My L One hundred hun-dred drivers oi ico wagons and helpers struck today for shorter hours and higher wages. The strike" tied up the ice business so completely that ice was delivered .only in a few exceptional cases. ; (Special to The Telegram.) MENDON. Cache county. May 1. The first of May was observed with fitting fit-ting ceremony today, as has been the custom in this town for many years. Shortly after 9 o'clock this morning the band appeared on the street and played a number of selections, after which it headed a parade through the principal streets. At the close of the fiarade the crowd gathered on the pubic pub-ic square and enjoyed exercises, including in-cluding music, songs, speeches and a May pole dance. Mendon is believed to be the only town. in the State that makes the first of May a holiday. ;. - BULLETIN. 3 P. IL PARIS, May 1. During the after-noon after-noon a man who was passing tie Place ' de la Bepuhlique on top of an omnibus fired five shots from a revolver at a squadron of cuirassiers, wounding two of the cavalrymen. The man, who was . subsequently Identified as Jacob Law of Balta, province of Podolia, Russia, was dragged from the top of the omnibus b7 the police and. narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of the crowd . . surrounding the vehicle. PAEIS, Majr . 1. Although t the en-v en-v " tire garrison of Paris, was under arms . - and 600 .moan ted guards and vast police reserves were on duty in order to prevent pre-vent the gigantic May day manif esta-; . tion planned by the Socialists, the city presented almost its normal aspect this i - - . ' ' begins next week, and also the national conclave of the Shriners. ' " , The five-years' contract of the union with the Jobbers' association expired today and the association declined to enter into another contract, declaring for an open shop. ' The employees of several firms yesterday made a demand for an increase of pay, which was not forthcoming today, and the strike resulted. re-sulted. The men are getting $3 a day for two-horse teams and $3.50 a day for four-horse teams. They demand an increase of 50 cents a day in each class. - At a meeting of the various truck companies yesterdsy, the . offer was made to increase the wages of each man 25 cents a day on the basis of no recognition recog-nition of the union itself. j NEW TOBK, May . 1. May day found the workingmen in comparatively few of the trades in this city ready to assert any demands for increased wages, and in consequence strikes were few. Chief interest centered in the possibility of a strike today of the first and second and third officers of the coastwise steamers who have made demands for increased wages. Up to today to-day seven of the seventeen lines ot steamers having connections in this city have presented new schedules. Bepre-.sentatives Bepre-.sentatives of the Department of Commerce Com-merce and Labor in Washington have been sent to this eity to try to avert the threatened trouble. The general manager of the Consolidated Consoli-dated Steamship lines, owned by C. W. Morse, made a compromise offer, bat it was declined. At the offices of tire Mal-lory Mal-lory line it was stated today that their officers had not gone out, but there is a strike of stevedores at both the Mallory and the Ward line docks. ' - - . Negotiations are still in progress between be-tween the officers and companies. Luther B. Dow, general manager- of the American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots, said today that none of the- officers of the steamers belonging belong-ing to the eompany which refused to advance wages, would return to their duties until the advances were granted. On the lines of the Consolidated Steamship company, he said, 300 men were ont. .morning. Troops were massed at the Prince Eugene barracks, the Bank of France, the Opera.1 the Grand Palay, the Bourse ana other strategic points, but they were discreetly kept out of sight in order to avoid unduly exciting the. populace. The authorities, while not interfering with workmen's meetings, meet-ings, are resolved to break up the first attempt at street demonstrations which might lead to serious disorders, it .was apparent early in-the morning . that the mass of the people had not much sympathy with the agitators. The appeals or M. Jaures and other Socialist Social-ist leaders for a complete suspension of work not only in Paris, but through-V through-V out France, were generally unheeded. . All the stores and restaurants were opened and the -omnibuses and fcVrse car lines and elertrie roads wereAhun-ning wereAhun-ning as usual. Nevertheless, an immense im-mense number of idle workmen were in - the streets wearing red emblems in their buttonholes. Before 1 o'clock thev began concentrating at the labor ', exchange, near the -Place de la Be-publique, Be-publique, where the most important meetings were' scheduled to take place. The police, however, kept the crowds . moving, arresting scores of loiterers. By noon 200 arrests nad been made, among J those taken into custody being a soldier t in citizen's clothes who was selling an- I ! arc hist papers. v Upon many of the persons arrested the police found knives, brass knuckles . '. and revolvers. , LOS ANGELE?T"May 1. A large number of union teamsters of this city went on strike this morning against the declaration of an open shop by the Los Angeles Jobbers' association and also to enforce a demand for an increase in-crease of wages. Several hundred men ire affected- So far, only the drivers of the heavy trucks have gone out, but th strike may spread to all branches. : The strike is particularly serious just at k this time, because of the fiesta, which 1 The journeymen painters have been on strike for. a few weeks, demanding an increase in wages for plain painting paint-ing from $3.50 to $4 per dar, and for decorative painting from $4 to- $4.50 per day, and are still out. .They had hoped for sympathetic strikes upon the part of the building trades today to help enforce their demands, but no such move was made by the allied unions. In Paterson 1000 journeymen carpenters carpen-ters went on a strike today for an increase in-crease in wages from $3.50 to $4 a day. The building operations in that citv were at a . standstill. Thirteen hundred carpenters in Newark New-ark struck today, to enforce a demand for an increase in wagea from 47 to |