Commemorating Labor Day - The Haymarket Massacre...

“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today."

The scaffold awaited them. They were five, but Lingg got up early for death, exploding a dynamite cap between his teeth. Fischer was seen unhurriedly humming the ‘Marseillaise.’

Parsons, the agitator who used the word like a whip or a knife, grasps the hands of his comrades before the guards tie his own behind his back. Engel, famous for his sharp wit, asks for port wine & then makes them all laugh with a joke. Spies, who so often wrote about anarchism as the entrance into life, prepares himself in silence to enter into death.

The spectators in the orchestra of the theater fix their view on the scaffold — a sign, a noise, the trap door gives way, now they die, in a horrible dance, twisting in the air.

José Martí wrote the story of the execution of the anarchists in Chicago. The working class of the world will bring them back to life every first of May. That was still unknown, but Martí always writes as if he is listening for the cry of a newborn where it is least expected.

"A time will come, when from our coffins Will rise a powerful voice, "Stronger than that which you want now to choke, A thousand times stronger, more striking!"

These were the last words of Spies...

"Hangmen, what do you gain from this? Did you annihilate the spiritual giant? Did you extinguish the sun?"