An estimated thirty thousand-to-forty thousand workers have…

An estimated thirty thousand-to-forty thousand workers have gone on strike in Chicago, the movement's center, and there are perhaps twice as many people out on the streets participating in various demonstrations and marches, as, for example, a march by ten thousand men employed in the Chicago lumber yards.

Though participants in these outdoor events adds up to eighty thousand, it is unclear if there was ever a single, massive march of that number down Michigan Avenue led by anarchist Albert Parsons, founder of the International Working People's Association [IWPA] and his wife Lucy and their children.