The May First demonstration here was very nice; but is already becoming somewhat of an everyday or rather an annual matter; the first fresh bloom is gone. The narrow-mindedness of the Trades Council and of the Socialist sects Fabians and the S.D.F. again compelled us to hold two demonstrations, but everything went off as we desired and we the Eight-Hour Committee had many more people than the united opposition. In particular, our international platform had a very good audience. I figure that there was a total of 240,000 in the park, of which we had 140,000 and the opposition at most 100,000.
Letters: Marx-Engels Correspondence 1893