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CHAPTER III
OBSERVING THANKSGIVING DAY.
CHICAGO WORKINGMEN HOLD A LARGE INDIGNATION MEETING IN MARKET SQUARE -- VIGOROUS RESOLUTIONS OF PROTES UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED -- MR. PARSONS' ADDRESS -- WHY SHOULD THE WAGE SLAVE GIVE THANKS? AND TO WHOM: GOD OR MASTER? -- PALACES AD HOVELS -- GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THE RIGHT OF THE "BOSS" TO BUY CHEAP LABOR -- THE FLAG OF AUTHORITY VS. THE FLAG OF LIBERTY -- THANKFUL FOR THE APPROACHING DAWN.
Taken from the "Alarm" of November 28, 1885.
The day set apart by the well-fed, well-clothed, well-housed, and well-to-do classes to return thanks for the success that crowned their efforts to exploit the working class during the past year was Thursday, November 26. It was a dreary , cold, wet, and uncomfortable day for the half-fed, scantily-clothed, poorly-housed, ad poverty-stricken working class, who had been the victims of the God-and-morality "better classes" the past year.
The working people of Chicago felt the sting of the insult and the hollow mockery conveyed in the chief ruler's proclamation commanding the people to "return thanks" for the miserable existence they were compelled to endure. The Internationalists therefore arranged for an indignation meeting of the working people, to whom was addressed the following announcement"
Grand Thanksgiving services of the Chicago workingmen, tramps, and all others who are despoiled and disfranchised, on Market square (Randolph and Market streets), Thanksgiving day, Thursday, November 26, 1885, at 2:30 o'clock p.m. Good "preachers" of the gospel of humanity will officiate. Everyone is invited. Learn how turkeys and other nice things may be procured.
The Committee of the Grateful.
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