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...Bethlehem, Pa.,police charged picket lines around the Bethlehem Steel plant. In Chicago, strikers milled and jeered around the gates of International Harvester's McCormick plant, while people who recalled the bloody Haymarket riot of 1886, which was fought on the same spot, held their breaths. Men battled before the Harvester plant in Richmond, Ind. Strikers and police split each other's heads, fought with clubs, tear gas, pitchforks, baseball bats, brickbats. In riot's wake was a debris of hospitalized citizens, overturned autos, damaged property and partially shut defense plants...
...courts and laws Go down midst crashing creeds, Lift up your weak and guilty hands From out the wreck of states, And as the crumbling towers fall down, Write ALTGELD on your gates! Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893. Called anarchist (for freeing three of the Haymarket rioters) and blamed for the great Pullman strike was Illinois' liberal Governor John Peter Altgeld. Years afterwards Poet Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem about him (The Eagle That Is Forgotten}, Biographer Carl Sandburg called him Illinois' greatest son after Abraham Lincoln. Last week, the University of Illinois...
Rites were being arranged today for Dr. William B. Young '13, former Harvard baseball coach, and resident surgeon of the Haymarket and East Boston relief stations, who died yesterday at the age of 49 in the Cambridge city hospital...
...minutes after ten o'clock on the night of May 4, 1886, a storm began to blow up in Chicago. As the first drops of rain fell, a crowd in Haymarket Square, in the packing house district, began to break up. At eight o'clock there had been 3,000 persons on hand, listening to anarchists denounce the brutality of the police and demand the eight-hour day, but by ten there were only a few hundred. The mayor, who had waited around in expectation of trouble, went home, and went to bed. The last speaker was finishing...
...Altgeld the essential factor about the Haymarket case was that the anarchists had not had a fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...