The Century Magazine, Vol. 45 April, 1893 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Century Magazine, Vol. 45: April, 1893 For more than a year - how much more does not appear in the evidence presented on the trial before a general strike for eight hours as a day's work was in contemplation, they had endeavored to bring the class they called proletariat into their ranks, and had urged that class to arm themselves, especially with dynamite bombs. In the fall of 1885 it became probable that such a strike could be brought about on the first day of the following May. They encouraged it to the utmost of their abilities; not for the purpose, as they were frank enough to say, of obtaining for laborers fewer hours of toil, but with the h0pe that in the disorder to follow all working for wages would be stopped, and that anarchy would be the next step. Armed strikers beating workers would bring the police and militia, and if they could be overcome in battles, no force being left to give vigor to the law, anarchy must follow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.