Workmen's advocate., 1888-11-17
llTH OF NOVEMBER.
THE CRIME OF CHICAGO RE-
 MEMBERED.
The Workers of Americas Athens Commemorate the Dark Day. Eloquent Speeches and
 MOttOes-An lmpres.
 sive Gathering.

Reports of the manner in which the 1lth of November was observed have reached us from various cities. It Is impossible to publish them all, but we select the report from Bos- ton, the "center of American clvili- zation, as being the most complete, and as an honor to the American people.
 The celebration of the first anni- versary of the execution of the Chi cago martyrs, held at New Era Hall, Boston, last Sunday evening was of such a nature as to far exceed the expectations of it's origlnators. At the meeting last year excitement ran high and it was only natural that a big crowd should be present. But this year so much time had elapsed it was not thought so many would be present. The contrary was the case, as there were nearly twice as many. The hall was packed as it never had been before, and hundreds standing up in the back of the hall and in the ante-rOomS.
 The hall was deliberately decorated with festoons of red cloth draped around the side and back; two large red flags were suspended over the platform and immediately y under was this extract in large letters from AL bert Parsons speech:
 My patriotism covers more than the boundary lines of a single State; the world is my country; all mankind my countrymen. That is what the emblem of the red flag signifies; it is the symbol of free, of emancipated Labor. The workers are without a country. In all lands they are disinherted, and America is no exception. The wage-slaves are the dependent hirelings of the rich in every land They are everywhere social pariahs without home or country. As they create all wealth, so also they fight every battle, not for themselves but for their masters
 Around the wall were placards bearing such notices as:
 "The John Browns of the Industrial War
 "Does Despotism Expect that Princi- ples can be Judiciously Murdered ?''
 "What Evil has He Done? Why Cru cify Him:
 "The Holy Trinity of Monopoly, Pull pit, Press and Forum"
 "The United States Government is Monopolys Efficient Weapon"
 "Justice 'Tis Treason to Love Her and Death to Defend"
 "To Proclaim Truth now as ever is a Crime Punishable with Death.
 At the back of the hall between two large American flags crossed and tied up in crape was d section of a gallows with a body depending from it, over which were the following words: "The cross of the new cru sade, and underneath were in the same spirit, "In hoe signo vinces.
 Close by were the notices
 Capital death victory is thine. "S-Monopoly's standard of virtue"
 "TOiers, the law is for the masters, and you are for the law
 On the other side wall were these notices:
 By their motives will we judge them
 ''To kill is not to reply"
 "We mourn labor's martyrs and pledge ourselves to their principles"
 American liberty, born of individual manhood in Philadelphia in l176, crushed by capitaliStic despotism in Chicago in 1SS1."
 Little bannerets of red and small American flags were profusely scat tered around the hall surrounding large pictures of the five who were executed and the three who were sent to prison.
 One noticeable feature was the presence of large number of women who, like the men, wore little red ribbons in their button-hOles.
 The whole affair was in charge of a committee composed of members of the different labor organizations of the city.