RIOTS IN AMERICA.
New York, May i. The laboring classes of the Unit'd States have commenced an agitation for Ilia initiation of the eight hours’ movement. Strikes extending over a widespread area have resulted in consequence. At Chicago serious riots took place yesterday, resulting in the loss of several lives. It is alleged that the outbreak was instigated by a foreign Socialist organisation. Disturbances of a more or less serious nature are reported from several industrial centres. May 5. The labor riots in Chicago have now assumed a very serious phase. A meeting of Socialists, numbering 15,000 men, was held yesterday in the city, and tho police ordered the crowd to disperse; but the Socialists offered a stubborn resistance, throwing explosive bombs among the police, killing five and wounding many others.- The police then fired upon the rioters, fifty of whom were shot deal and a large number wounded. Tho greatest consternation prevails in the city, business being to a large extent at a standstill.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1503, 8 May 1886, Page 1
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