Talk:Arbeiter-Zeitung (Chicago)

Rewrite necessary
"The Haymarket Square bombing of May 1886 provided a convenient excuse for the Chicago police to crack down on the Arbeiter-Zeitung." The source for this glib, erroneous statement is cited as Douglas O. Linden, but I find no such assertion in the link cited. Nor in any of the reading I have done is there any indication that police targeted the newspaper before the Haymarket bombing, or wanted to. The Arbeiter Zeitung was raided because staff members had spoken on a wagon just before the bomb went off. This was not an "excuse"; a policeman had been killed. I will use the source cited to rewrite that portion of article, with supplement from Timothy Messer-Kruse's work.

Note: It seems Spies began acting as editor unofficially in 1883, as this article currently suggests, but was actually named editor in 1884. It's accurate the way it is, but others may perceive a discrepancy with other articles regarding Spies.User:AecwriterAECwriter 06:35, 3 March 2012 (UTC)