Today in Labor History May 21, 1894: The French authorities executed anarchist Emile Henry by guillotine. His final words were, “Courage, comrades! Long live Anarchy!” Henry grew up in a family of radicals. His father had been a supporter of the Paris Commune. As a result, his family was exiled to Spain, where Henry was born. However, his father contracted mercury poisoning from his factory job there and died when Henry was ten. After this, the family moved back to France. Henry’s older brother, also an anarchist, helped him make connections with other French revolutionaries. In 1892, Henry set a time bomb at the offices of the Carmaux Mining Company, which killed five cops. In February, 1894, he set off a bomb at the Café Terminus, killing one person and wounding twenty. The authorities arrested him for this crime and sentenced him to death by guillotine.

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Today in Labor History February 12, 1894: Anarchist Émile Henry hurled a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20. In 1892, Henry set a time bomb at the offices of the Carmaux Mining Company, killing 5 cops.

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Emile Henry — Trial Declaration
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Emile Henry: Trial Declaration (Redbubble collection)
"Déclaration d’Émile Henry à son procès" (1894) — [Bibliothèque anarchiste]
"Emile Henry’s Defense" (1894) — [Anarchist Library]

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