The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-05-08
RIOT IN. CHICAGO.
Anarchists and Socialists Attack
the Police.
OVER 100 KILLED AND WOUNDED
RIOT IN MILWAUKEE.

Anarchy has reigned in Chicago this week.
For several years it has been the headquart--
ers of the Anarchists, all foreigners, and
murder and arson have been publicly advised
by the lawless leaders. They have been per-
mitted to desecrate the Sabbath by parades,
with their incendiary banners, and the indls-
criminate use of the torch, the dynamite
bomb and the rifle has been advised at their
open air meetings. They have also been
permitted to arm and drill. Their object is
to destroy the property of those who by IN
dustry have accumulated any, and to hang
or assassinate all whom they deem wealthy.
They exist in every large city in the Union,
and even in Baltimore such outlaws as Herr
Most and Justus Sehwab have been permitted
to utter their seditious language without
word of protest from the authorities.
The great hot-bed of Anarchy, however, is
Chicago, and their license to talk as they
please has borne its fruit in three riots, IN
which many persons have been killed and
wounded, and which has paralyzed trade and
caused feeling of uneasiness.
Labor throughout the country has been un.
settled for some months to an unparalleled
degree. The demand for higher wages,
which caused suspension of business IN all
the large trade centres, on account OF strikes
and lockouts, and the strikes among miners
and railroad employees, for the same reason,
have been bad enough, but on the list OF
NAV pretty general demand for shorter
hours of labor, generally eight, with ten
hours paw, has further complicated matters.
Laboring men are everywhere organized, but
they are under poor discipline and their cause
is ruined by the lawless among them who
have run into excuses.
| Among the labor organizations OF Chicago
are many Anarchists, and they have urged
/ tha hao ,Ormlck.
the reaper manufacturer, granted his men an
increase of wages when they asked for it, but
he refused to discharge two employees who
were not union men. For this his men
struck. After time some returned to work
and the places of others were tilled by new
men. The old employees, no doubt incited
and led on by the Anarchists among them,
have threatened to hang Mccormick and de-
stroy his shops.
| On Monday afternoon mass meeting was
held. 1t was addressed by Socialists: One
| German speaker said: "Quit the knights OF
Labor; they will never do you any good; JOIN
the Central Labor Union, which will help you
to your rights and freedom. Anarchy is the
/ only way for the working men to break the
chains Of slavery in which they are bound by
the capitalists. 1t is your only way to tree
dom. With revolver in one hand and your
knife in the other and bombs in your pockets
march on to revolution and freedom. Every
working man must starve together and stand
together and fight together for his rights.
After listening to this harangue, the crowd
began to throw stones at the surrounding
buildings. Then, as if moved by one spirit,
the six thousand men started toward McCor-
mick's reaper works, half mile west; 1t
was about $40 o'clock when the crowd ar
rived there. .,
An attack was made on the building with
bouIders and stones that lined the railroad
track which extends past the works. The
bowling mob met the workmen climbing from
their benches, and they began an attack on
the employees, employing vile epithets and
stoning them without mercy. There were
but two police officers at the work, but others
were sent for. The rioters attacked the po-
lice as fast as they arrived, and for over an
hour there was more or less lighting. The
result was bat the Mccormick building was
damaged somewhat, some OF the employees
badly beaten and injured, and four OF the
rioters were killed and many injured by the
nolice. The latter were roughly handled, and
one would have been lynched but for the
timely arrival of patrol wagon OF officers.
A rome was around his neck and he was
| being dragged to a lampost when rescued
On Tuesday morning a gathering OF idle
workmen, whose utterances and actions were
against the peace of the city, were dispersed
by the police after small fight, in which no
one was much injured.
On Monday evening the following circular
in the German language, with an English
translation appended, was circulated:
| Revenge! Working men to arms! Your
masters sent out their bloodhounds, the po-
| lice. They killed six ofyour brothers at Nc
/ Cormick's this afternoon. They killed the
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courage to disobey the supreme will of your
bosses. They killed them because they dared
ask for the shortening Of the hours of toll.
They killed them to show You free American
citizens that you must be satisfied and con-
tented with whatever your bosses condeseepd
to allow YOU or you will get killed. You
have for wears endured the most abject hu-
mutations; you have for years suffered I'M
measurable miseries; you have worked your
self to death; you have endured every pang
of want and hunger; your children you have
sacrificed to the factory lords-in short, you
have been miserable and obedlent slaves all
these wears. Why? To satisfy the insatia-
BILE greed, to fill the Golfers of your lazy,
Ihieving master. When you ask him now to
lessen your burden, he sends his blood
hounds out to shoot you, kill you. If you
are men, if YOU are the sons of your grand
sires who have shed their blood to free you,
then you will rise in your might, destroy the
hideous monster that seeks to destroy you.
To arms We call You to arms!
''YoUG BROTHERS"
On Tuesday morning the Arbeiter Zeitung
n German paper edited by Speis, the Socialist,
who was one of the speakers who melted
Monday riot at Mccormick S said; Work
ing Men-rhe hated police yesterday muir
dered four of your brothers and wounded
oil
Had YOUR brothers who had nothing but
stones to defend themselves been armed with
good weapons and few dynamite bombs,
none of the murderers would have escaped
his well deserved fate. As it was, only four
of them the policemen were wounded,
That is sad Yesterdays massacre occurred
that the 10000 strikers in this city might be
filled with fear and terror, and that the dis
satisfied and rebellious laborers might be
driven back under the yoke of slavery. Will
this end be accomplished? Has not a mis-
calculation been made? The next few days
will answer this question. We will not spec
ulate on the course of events.
The same day call was circulated for a
mass meeting of workmen Tuesday night.
1t was called by Socialists and Anarchists.
The police authorities prepared for the occa-
sion, determined to prevent any proceedings
calculated to endanger life or property or to
break the peace.
At 8 o'clock large crowd had collected on
Desplaiues street, just north of Randolph, in
dimly lighted spot, near which were many
wagons and trucks. August Speis was the
first speaker. After long rambling talk on
the labor problems, he asked: ''What means
this display of Calling guns, cannon, bayo-
nets, patrol wagons and clubs2 What means
the calling out of the first regiment tits as
an entertainment for you, gentlemen. The
demand of the Mccormick men was reason
able, and yet Mccormick denies that he is
responsible for the bloodshed yesterday. |
say he lies. He is responsible for the death
of our brothers. Voice, Put him under the
lake'] The rope is better. Don't make use
less threats, my friends, but when you are
ready act A Voice, String him up There
are Is, 600 or &c, 100 families in Chicago suf
fering starvation to-day because husbands and
fathers are not men enough to stand up for
their rights" Loud cheers followed this
speech, and the cries of "rhe lake." and
1.-THE rope'' were heard from hoarse threats.
A. R. Parsons was the next speaker. He
went into the labor statistics largely and de-
fined the difference between trade unionists
and socialists.
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