Debut set dedicated to the eight Haymarket martyrs: Spies, Fischer, Engel, Lingg, Schwab, Neebe, Parsons, and Fielden.
"But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement—the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery—the wage slaves—except salvation—if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here we will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. you cannot put it out."
- Address of August Spies, October 7th, 1886.
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