# Talk:Haymarket affair

This paragraph seems to be inconsistent with the actual article(s) cited.

A New York Times article, with the dateline May 4, and headlined "Rioting and Bloodshed in the Streets of Chicago ... Twelve Policemen Dead or Dying", reported that Fielden spoke for 20 minutes, alleging that his words grew "wilder and more violent as he proceeded". Another New York Times article, headlined "Anarchy's Red Hand," dated May 6, opens with: "The villainous teachings of the Anarchists bore bloody fruit in Chicago tonight and before daylight at least a dozen stalwart men will have laid down their lives as a tribute to the doctrine of Herr Johann Most." (Most was a German-American anarchist theorist and leader, who was not in Chicago.) The article referred to the strikers as a "mob" and used quotation marks around the term "workingmen".
The May 4th article and the May 6th article mentioned here are one and the same. In the original article the text "Anarchy's Red Hand" appears right above the text "Rioting and Bloodshed in the Streets of Chicago". The dateline for the article is May 4th, and it appeared in the Wednesday, May 5th, 1886 edition of the Times.
I'm not sure how the paragraph ought to be rephrased, and I suppose it's hard to cite the Times directly given that their archives are paywalled though citation #26 seems to redirect to the archive copy of it. Citation #27 looks to have the same text as the original article, but it has the dateline wrong (the May 6th date).
Later in this page there is another reference to the same article, citing a book that cites the Times article (citation #63). Maybe it could be changed to the same direct citation? Codingkoi (talk) 16:49, 30 April 2025 (UTC)