I found this image of a handbill from around the time of The Haymarket Affair, on the Chicago Historical Society website during a re-visit of the history surrounding Labor day 
. It’s still relevant today, and really highlights how much progress we still have to make in creating a world that’s accessible, accommodating, and kind.
Here’s the English version of the print, which is also in German:
Text of Image [CW: Violence, Police Brutality, Patriarchal- and male- centered language]
REVENGE! - Workingmen, to Arms!! -
Your masters sent out their bloodhounds – the police–; they killed six of your brothers at McCormicks this afternoon. They killed the poor wretches, because they, like you, had the courage to disobey the supreme will of your bosses. They killed them, because they dared ask for the shortenin of the hours of toil. They killed them to show you, “Free American Citizens”, that you must be satisfied and contended with whatever your bosses condescend to allow you, or you will get killed!
You have for years endured the most abject humiliations; you have for years suffered unmeasurable iniquities; you have worked yourself to death; you have endured the pangs of want and hunger; your Children you have sacrificed to the factory-lords – in short: You have been miserable and obedient slave all these years: Why? To satisfy the insatiable greed, to fill the coffers of your lazy thieving master? When you ask them now to lessen your burden, he sends his bloodhounds out to shoot you, kill you!
If you are men, if you are the sons of your grand sires, who have shed their blood to free you, then you will rise in your might, Hercules, and destroy the hideous monster that seeks to destroy you. To arms we call you, to arms! Your Brothers.
If you’re not familiar with it here’s a brief history behind the events that brought about such “street literature”:
The Haymarket Affair
On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ordinary workers combined to make the city the center of the national movement for an eight-hour day.
Between April 25 and May 4, workers attended scores of meetings and paraded through the streets at least 19 times. On Saturday, May 1, 35,000 workers walked off their jobs. Tens of thousands more, both skilled and unskilled, joined them on May 3 and 4. Crowds traveled from workplace to workplace urging fellow workers to strike. Many now adopted the radical demand of eight hours’ work for ten hours’ pay. Police clashed with strikers at least a dozen times, three with shootings.
The Haymarket Affair became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights. It has been associated with May Day (May 1) since that day’s designation as International Workers’ Day by the Second International in 1889. The tragedy inspired generations of labour leaders, leftist activists, and artists and has been commemorated in monuments, murals, and posters throughout the world, especially in Europe and Latin America.
-Haymarket Affair](https://www.britannica.com/event/Haymarket-Affair)
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As a little note on the Haymarket text and it’s transcript, I have written a translation of the German text and had two major realizations:
Translation, CWs apply
Revenge! Revenge!
Workers, to arms!
Working people, this afternoon the bloodhounds of your exploiters murdered 6 of your brothers out by McCormick’s. Why did they murder them? Because your brothers had the courage of being unhappy with their lot in life, which your exploiters assigned to them. They asked for bread, in reply they received lead, given the fact that this way, the people can be silenced most effectively. For many, many years you have suffered indignities without objection, you have toiled from the early mornings to the late evenings, you have suffered hardships of all kinds, you have even sacrificed your children – all of it to fill up the treasure hoards of your rulers, all of it for them! And now as you step before them, as you ask them to lighten your burden, they send their bloodhounds, the police, after you as a thanks for your sacrifices, so as to cure you of your unhappiness with lead bullets. Slaves, we ask and implore you by all that is holy and of value to you, avenge this atrocious murder, which has been committed on your brothers today, and may be committed on you tomorrow. Working people, Hercules, you have arrived at the crossroads. What will you choose? Slavery and hunger, or freedom and bread? If you choose the latter, then do not waste a moment; then, people, to arms! Annihilation upon the human beasts, who call themselves your rulers. Relentless annihilation upon them – that must be your calling! Remember the heroes whose blood fertilized the path to progress, freedom and humanity – and strive to become worthy of them!
Your brothers
*Denglish is the German term for a mix of “Deutsch” (German) and English in colloquial language.
I remember when I had to learn German in school, and we got to the gendering of nouns and for a long while I was sure it had to mean something that it was die katze and der hund. Like there had to be something that marked each word beyond arbitrarily being assigned a der/die/das. Which was silly of course because my own language has so little reasoning behind gendering it’s own nouns that a stereotype of immigrants is that they just learn one and then use that one for all words.
Also it can’t be Denglish because then we’ve got Danglish, Denglish and Dunglish
There is no rules to it in general, with the notable exception of words that are clearly from other languages, which also include all words that end on -tion (nation, finalization etc.). All of these are feminine in German. My favorite little detail about this is that a lot of French words (like “le visage”, “face”) which are taken from French, are very often used as insults but get the feminine article. If you refer to someone’s face as a visage in German, you are very much telling them that you don’t like seeing them or that you generally think they’re ugly.
German is not a fun language, and it always presents me with new proof that it is also such a violent and heartless language sometimes. And yes, we do have all of these glish-languages :P
You don’t even understand how happy childhood me would have been if he had known there was at least one rule to cling to. Sadly it is too late. Although still interesting.
There’s a fun phenomenon in Danish where because of the huge influence of Germany on the culture, but relatively little influence the other way, there are German phrases in use in Danish that are not in use in Germany. Either having fallen out of use or having been invented by German speakers outside Germany.
I don’t think Germans typically say Aber Dabei or Affentittengeil or “Keine Hexerei” And while many would say Eins Bier I don’t think it means the same thing
Happy to supply the rule, even if a bit late
The expressions you mentioned mostly exist in German too actually! I’ll explan a bit more for the others
The term oberaffentittengeil (“extremely cool”, the individual words are “ober Affen Titten geil”, which very roughly translate to “top-shelf monkeys tits horny”) is still in active use, same as keine Hexerei (“no witchcraft”, which means the same as “It’s not rocket science” in English). Eins Bier (one beer) derives from a rapper (I think?) using the number instead of the grammatically correct form Ein Bier (neutral grammatical gender with an indefinite article, definite article would be “das Bier”).
Huh. I was told that they weren’t. But at least we appear to be using some of them differently.
“Eins Bier” refers to when two things are the same to you so the argument is moot. Like you’re discussing what to get for dinner and you don’t really care. Eins bier. And it’s old enough that my great grandad used it.
Aber Dabei is a hitch, problem or downside. You can use it in a way that makes no German grammatical sense. Like “And then there won’t be any aber dabei”
Keine Hexerei and affentittengeil appear to be the same though.