Haymarket+Riot



The first week of May,1886, workers of Chicago launched a public prtoest for an eight-hour workday. The slogan they chanted was, "Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will!" On the evening of may 4th, union leaders held a protest rally and anarchists joined the strikers. Later into the rally, someone threw a bomb into a police formation, killing an officer. Moments later, shots rang out killing police and protesters on both sides. The bomb thorwer was never found, though eight anarchist got tried for plot to commit murder. Four were hung the next day, another comminted suicide in prison.

Information from: Pathways to the Present, page 252. Picture from:http://www.criticalenquiry.org/images/800px-HaymarketRiot-Harpers.jpg