SOCIALISM IN CHICAGO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1513, 1 June 1886, Page 1

SOCIALISM IN CHICAGO.

A terrible fight took place at Chicago in May, in the quarter of the city known as the Haymarket, between the police and crowds of anarchists, principally Germans, They assembled in a mass meeting, and were addressed by Parsons and Fielding, two notorious Socialists, who uttered inflammatory sentiments, and calling on their hearers to arm themselves and assert their rights. Inspector Confield at the head of 125 policemen marched to the place to put a stop to the proceedings. He called upon the crowd to disperse, and Fielding answered him, shouting “To arms! to arms!” The officer demanded a second time the His p*rsion of the crowd, when suddenly from between a waggon, which was not fifteen feet from the front rank of the policemen two bomb shells were thrown between the second and third ranks of the men, with the cry “ Kill the ,” Almost as soon as the words were v.ttered the bombs exploded and six policemen fell dead. Others were wounded. Many Socialists weie also hurt. The explosicn of the bombs was followed by a fuailade of revolver shots from the police and the rioters answered in the same way. They were well provided with pistols, and the mob appeared crazed with the desire for blood. It held its ground, and poured volley after volley into the midst of the police. The latter fought gallantly, and at last dispersed the Socialists, and cleared the market place, it is impossible to get at the number of lives lost among the mob. Many fell, and as they dropped were at once carried to the rear into many dark alloy ways by their friends. The police think fifty were wounded. A drug store was crowded with persona who were hurt, and surgeons were telegraphed for in all directions. At 7 o’clock in the evening 20 policemen lay on the floor of the Derplains Street Station all disabled, while others were reported lying in an open square dead or wounded. One was found in a doorway, to which he had drugged himself, riddled with pistol balls. The station house, where the dead and wounded lay, presented a shocking sight. There were some 20 Socialists in the cells in the basement, nearly all wounded. The names of some of those arrested tell their nationality, viz., (Joe Kircher, Emil Lotto, John. Milhund, Filer Lay, John Fraser, August Laka, John Lachman, Robert Schultz, and others. For the greater part they are Herr Most’s countrymen and pupils. The particular Social missionary in Chicago is a German named August Brier, editor of a German paper.