In 1976, when Mayor Daley removed the Police Monument from Haymarket and relocated it to Central Police Headquarters, the substitution became more complete: Haymarket Square no longer was framed by the bronze statue and its narrative of the
Haymarket Riot. However, the Waldheim memorial still offered its account, and labor activists sought to strengthen the link between the two sites in order to counter the presence of the Police Monument and the absence in public memory of the Haymarket Massacre.
And it was there she met Lola Maverick Lloyd, suffragist, mother and daughter-in-law of Henry Demarest Lloyd, the influential financial editor of the Chicago Times who later converted to writing about social justice after witnessing the bloody 1896
Haymarket Riot. Lola's husband, William, had grown up in this liberal tradition, and approved of Lola's work on behalf of women's suffrage and pacifism.
The
Haymarket Riot of 1886, for example, exposed many of the tensions in American culture over the place of radicalism and immigrants in American culture.
Further, although the Estey craftsmen were well cared for in comparison to the industrial standards of the day (or more precisely, the lack of standards, leading to events such as the
Haymarket riot in Chicago), Waring maintains that they were still barred from the "upper echelons of the business" (p.
In mines in the West, sugar fields in the South, and textile manufacturing in the Northeast, walkouts were countered with strikebreakers; there were many confrontations like the
Haymarket Riot in Chicago, resulting in labor leaders being branded as socialists and anarchists.
The participants themselves linked the episode to the same industrial history that produced the
Haymarket Riot, among other incidents.
The
Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, Coeur d'Alene, Telluride, Wheatlands Hops, Ludlow Massacre, Steel Strike of 1919, and the sit down strikes of the 1930s plus many more testify to the obvious existence of profound social discontent.
The resulting public furor over the
Haymarket riot ended any hope that the eight-hour gains would soon be achieved.