May 3, During a strike at McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago, demonstrators clash with police, and several of the strikers are wounded or killed. May 4, A bomb is detonated after police break up a meeting of labor activists near Haymarket Square in Chicago. One police officer is killed by the blast, and several men, both strikers and police officers, die or are wounded in the ensuing violence. July 16, The eight men go to trial. On August 19th, the men are found guilty, and seven are sentenced to death by hanging.
The eighth man, Oscar Neebe is given a lighter sentence of 15 years in the penitentiary. An appeal to the U. Supreme Court in November is denied.
Four anarchists were hanged on November 11, ; none were proven to have been involved in the throwing of the bomb. Read about the eight-hour work day labor movement.
Read about the Haymarket Affair and May Day. In , workers were toiling 10 to 12 hours a day in the stockyards, rail yards, and factories of Chicago. A series of strikes and protests throughout the city in early May of that year made the eight-hour workday their focus and central demand.
On May 4, , in the Haymarket on Randolph Street near Halsted Street, someone threw a dynamite bomb after an otherwise peaceful labor rally. In the resulting riot, seven policemen and an unknown number of demonstrators lost their lives. The explosion in Haymarket Square came during a period of nationwide labor upheaval. Scottish-born Andrew Carnegie was an American industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry then became a major philanthropist.
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