Death in the Haymarket

Computer troubles have prevented me from posting much here this past summer, but they've been fixed and i hope to post more often now.

On the labor day holiday i watched an excellent documentary about the infamous Haymarket bombing in chicago in 1886 and the subsequent trial in which several labor activists including a couple of very prominent and gifted leaders with anarchist sympathies were very unjustly convicted of crimes for which they paid with their lives. This led me to read a book on the subject titled Death in the Haymarket which was excellent and pointed out the extreme inequities which then existed (as they still do today) between owners and workers, the necessity of labor organizing labor, the terrific selfless character of it's leaders, and the corruption of society and it's courts of law which promulgate and uphold inequity and injustice. Following are some quotes taken from the book (top of p. 276):

"They were called anarchists... they were painted and presented to the world as men loving violence, riot, and bllodshed... nothing could be further from the truth. They were men who lover peace, men of gentle instincts; of gracious tenderness of heart, loved by those who knew them, trusted by those who came to know the loyalty and purity of their lives. They had lived for a revolution that would create a society based on cooperation instead of coercion. -eulogy for August Spies, Alfred Parsons, and 3 other martyrs killed by the state in Chicago on Nov. 11, 1887.

"Their highly publicized hangings seemed to many to be nothing more than a ferocious attempt to silence dissent in America."