LABOUR DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 21 June 1890, Page 2

LABOUR DAY.

Tbo Mwr Somonetratlo&B, >, Thefollowing revidw| of the .;May Day Labour Ditoonstrations' is ' ftorn the London Times; — The May Day, Demonstrations',fwhioh 5 exoitedUeo; inucb apprehension in various quarters, r off with; almost complete'tranquiiiiy in'every pari of Europe. In Paris some arrests'were made, and some slight collisions took place between ■' the. and? the. police, bat for the most part the demonstrations, alike/ in the capital and in. other parts of iFrauW Wero' peaceful and undisturbed,' In Berlin and thro'ughoat Germany thodemonstration is ; reported to Jiave' beodya huge failure, ; The factories and workshops remained, open, and sueh workmen as could;' be' induoed to demonstrate at all contented themselves, for the most part, ..with hold-, ing meetings during their meal times aud, passing resolutions, inj favor. v of eiglit lioiira a day.' In* Vienna, wli'eW the greatest apprehension iras felt, the upper classes .remained at homo, and absented" themselves from the usual holiday gatherings of the day, but the working population assembled in ' vast numbers .in tba Prater, ing in .more or .less' demonstrative fasbio'ii; bat the peace of OKpital was j entirely, uiidisturbedj by their proceedings, nor, so far as outward ; ttppefirahceli»went,' <j was*'us' trauqaility even somupli asthreatened. AMiidapest, |hp\^eyer,, some iurbaiices' krl earl/ in'tie' day, by the assembling, of a, turbulent body-of in front of amili; but though the troops were called out and oharged'|tHrrioterg, work was not ! interrupted. at'Ytli\, .mill, At Prossnity a|afn, a large body pt 'fPij cpisting'of spine thousands, attaokecj Jie priisn : j for ibe purpose, ofwlib'eratiug some of 'their.' oomr^des^whb' v arreted th'o day More! ,/r,"ji ; -W.ith these' oxc.eptibhs, aiid ; that ot a -'slight die'turbdnce »at 'seraing, in Belgium,, the aoobunts|wmoh;i:each us from alliparts! report universal arjces in Budapest&d]&Bsfz ;may perhaps he general has prevailed in various parts than tp the imMfiat^^nMr. of yesterday's foij jail praotigal p'urpop|p|y be that the defi&tritionß tliey// were pcessfql froM /. the p6int of view pf thpse wjio tIM is \quesjik/iiipr^dilloflitf td it; is dkmtotiois|pf 'rating men did ajtually tak;e , plaoeVihnthejsMtwtcial\centres of |®|B6 o^untrie6febut. ; ,.t|l' result\on the other hand, especially in such-oam* tato as Paris and Berlin, hardly jqsfiM .the anticipalps of those

,\vilio expected eviiry .workman to leave V 1 hia work ( and to demonstrata his j ? international solidarity : with ' his » fellows. In London, again, the demonstration of tlia 80-ealled "Nat* , , :j ional Federation of All Trades and , j :v iuduetries,": was, asmight have been 1 y foreseen, a very insignificant affair; ■ ,J^ : but, as the working men of London J v postponed their own: demonstration .!, j praotioal a , j,-.< day to lpse,for the,, sake of keeping tiine witfe'tlleir continental bretlitjHk/7 ji . it-would- be unreasonable to I On o i "Ij| , first s celebration of 11 Labour Day, 11 :41 ' *aa ita'promot'efo styled it, was neither, r ■ - .IM so imposing so farming as many ' I . persons had "'anticipated. - \Yohave V , not ourselyesi •beemalarmists in* the ,• > />. * ' matter, and f Hh'd-result bas arinhr 1 justified our confidence in the foflßfc „ j- y of social. o'rder ( and-in 1 the peaceful I intentions, -Rietit mass of the f industrial olasseslth'roughout Europe. 1 j