The Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument by Albert Weinert was unveiled in Forest Park, Illinois in 1893.
The Haymarket Martyrs Monument honors the worker’s struggle to achieve the 8 hour workday and the 1886 rally in Haymarket Square that led to the hangings of leaders in the fight for worker’s rights. Located in the Forest Home Cemetery (the only cemetery that would take their remains), the monument consists of a 16 foot high granite shaft with two bronze figures below it. The figures depict a hooded woman walking holding a laurel wreath over the head of the other figure–a bearded male worker who is reclining.
On the step below is inscribed “The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.” On the back are engraved the names of those that were executed for the Haymarket Affair–August Spies, Adolph Fischer, Albert Parsons, Louis Lingg, and George Engel.
The photos and description of the Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument are part of materials from its registration form for the National Register of Historic Places.
