Today in History ^05/01/18

(1886) Workers strike and rally for rights in major US cities

Sixty-hour workweeks at poverty wages inspire marchers to mass in Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, and other American cities. Among their demands are an 8-hour workday and better labor conditions. The strikes and rallies will inspire International Worker’s Day.

The Haymarket affair was the aftermath at Haymarket Square in Chicago, of police killing workers at a labor demonstration near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant on Monday, May 3, 1886. The next day, a peaceful rally began in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by the police. An unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse the public meeting. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; scores of others were wounded.

Date: May 04, 1886

The first flier calling for a rally in the Haymarket on May 4. and the revised flier for the rally later, the words “Workingmen Arm Yourselves and Appear in Full Force!” were removed from the revised flier.
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(1886) Workers strike and rally for rights in major US cities.
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