Excerpt from A Message to the Middle Class Nineteen strikers were thrown into jail on charges of riot or murder. Parades were forbidden. The Poles were denied the use of their own society hall for strike meetings; and the town invoked an ordinance aimed at freedom of speech and public assemblage. A sympathetic clergyman offered his churchyard as a meeting place. The town govern ment retaliated with another ordinance, to prohibit any meeting on property abutting on a public highway, - this, somewhat on the principle of the French Assembly which decreed that no deputy should be a crown minister. Say rather, gentleman, replied that states man sarcastically, no deputy named Mirabeau! From the flat-topped tombstone of a soldier of the American Revolution, a strike-leader, haranguing his fellows, -was dragged to arrest. The town later voted for spe cial police. These reserves, by an amazing blunder in tact, were recruited in part from the police of Lawrence. 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.