Image: Walsall Anarchists Mass Meeting poster (1894)

Description: A poster publicising two meetings held to demand the release of Frederick Charles, Joseph Deakin, Victor Cailes and Jean Battola, who were held for the Walsall Anarchist bomb plot. The poster reads: THE WALSALL ANARCHISTS. A MASS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN PARK STREET, WALSALL, AT ELEVEN A.M. On EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1894, To demand the Release of the four Men---CHARLES, DEAKIN, CAILES, and BATTOLA, CONDEMNED TO PENAL SERVITUDE By Justice Hawkins. on April 2nd, 1892, for a Sham Dynamite Plot. got up by a Spy in the pay of the RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH POLICE. ANOTHER. GREAT MEETING IN BRADFORD STREET, AT 8 P.M. SPEAKERS-- GEORGE CORES, (Leicester Trades' Council) ; DAVID NICOLL(Edi- tor of the Anarchist) ; ERNEST STOCKTON, (Manchester) ; JOHN MURDOCH, (Leeds); GEORGE CAPLIN, (Sheffield) ; JOHN TURNER, (President Shop Assistants' Union, London). Workmen of Walsall, assemble in your thousands and demand the Release of the men now suffering the horrors of Penal Servi- tude for being entrapped by a spy into THE POLICE PLOT AT WALSALL. READ 'The Walsall Anarchists,' Trapped BY THE Police, OR THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WALSALL PLOT. PRICE ONE PENNY. From David Nicoll, 36, Industry Street, Walkley, Sheffield.
Title: Walsall Anarchists Mass Meeting poster (1894)
Credit: https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.30136583
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