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Haymarket Riot(May 4, 1886) Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labour movement's struggle for recognition. Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action. A bomb was thrown into the crowd, killing seven policemen and injuring 60 others. Police and workers fired on each other. Public demand for action led to the arrest of eight anarchists (see anarchism). Convicted of conspiracy to murder, they were sentenced to death; four were executed and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three survivors were pardoned by Illinois Gov. John Peter Altgeld. Haymarket Riot Chicago labor dispute erupted into mob scene (1886). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 297] See : Riot How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Chicago strikes and demonstrations of 1886-1888 culminated in the violent Haymarket Square riots, which included the murder of Chicago police officers, when anarchists hurled a dynamite bomb into police ranks. The collapse of these alliances, precipitated when the mayor supported the busting of a streetcar strike in 1885, in turn provoked a backlash among Chicago workers which helped trigger the violence that erupted in Haymarket Square in 1886. Chicago had wards, aldermen, political machines, Haymarket Square, unions, immigrants, Nelson Algren, Saul Alinsky-our political city |
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