PAUL AVRICH iir|[H| warn ifiTj ISBN □-bcll-[]4711-I SET.50 IN U-S. ONLY THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY PAUL AVRICH "In Avrich's hands, this cause lives. As I turn his pages, I find myself caught up by the impossible hope that the Chicago anarchists, men of generous ideals and affirmations of life, may somehow es- cape the hangman's noose this time around. The Haymaiket Tragedy makes us see that this story will indeed never grow old as long as we love freedom and hate tyranny." —Richard Drinnon, Bucknell University, author of Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman Here is a fresh and moving appraisal of the famous Haymarket tragedy and the trial that followed it—a trial that was a cause celebre of American liberals and radicals in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most un- just in the annals of American jurispru- dence. Paul Avrich tells of the fears and hatreds that led to the tragedy of Chi- cago's Haymarket Square and shows how the eight anarchists who were blamed for the bombing at the Haymarket gathering became the focus of a variety of passion- ately waged struggles, including those over immigration, radicalism, and the emer- gent labor movement. Clearing up a number of mysteries long puzzling to historians as well as to the police, he por- trays events that demonstrated, more dramatically than any others of the post- Civil War period, the inequities of Amer- ican capitalism and the limita* American justice. The trial of the eight Chicago anar- chists marked the first "Red Scare in (continued on ba flap) ACPL ITEM DISCARDED 335.83 AV8H 2246999 AVRICH, PAUL. THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY ■ 335.83 AV8H 2246999 AVRICHI PAUL. THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY NOV 2 2 ’90 ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 46802 You may return this book to any agency, branch, or bookmobile of the Alien County Public Library. OCMCU THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY THE HAYMARKET TRAGEDY PAUL AVRICH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, PRINCETON, N. f. Copyright © 1984 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Guildford, Surrey All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data will be found on the last printed page of this book ISBN 0-691-04711-1 This book has been composed in Linotron Trump Clothbound editions of Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. Paperbacks, although satisfactory for personal collections, are not usually suitable for library rebinding Printed in the United States of America by Princeton University Press • i- i ;w. iw Princeton, New Jersey e-* 4 R Wayne, Indiana 2246299 IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH A. LABADIE 1850-1933