Haymarket Riot
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The Riot
Days before
After The Riot
Before the Riot
American Industrial Revolution
- On May 1, 1886, the workers of Harvesting Machine Company in Haymarket Square in Chicago, began strike trying to gain shorter work days.
- On May 3, the police tried to protect strikebreakers, and a scuffle broke out.
- One person was killed and several injured.
- A period of panic and over reaction, flooded Chicago.
- Hundreds workers were detained then beaten to force confessions.
- Seven out of eight anarchists were committed of conspiracy to commit murder.
- Four were hanged, one committed suicide and three were pardoned by John Peter Altgeld.
- They were never proved to be the real bomb throwers.
- The American Industrial Revolution started in the early 1800s.
- Without Labor Unions the workers in the factories were treated poorly.
- The workers were not only men but women and children too.
- Robber Barons were known for treating workers badly.
How Workers Were Treated
The Effects
The Riot Begins
- Owners of factories wanted to pay the lowest wages to workers so there were many children and women workers because their pay was less than men.
- Factory workers worked for as long as 16 hour days.
- Workers got physical punishment to speed up production.
- Methods of work and machinery were not designed for safety so there were many maiming and fatal accidents.
- The Haymarket Riot was blamed on the Knights of Labor (KOL) which was at the time the biggest and most successful union in America.
- Several more strikes lead by the KOL fought to make eight hour work days.
- May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square a rally began planned by anarchists to protest alleged police brutality.
- A crowd of only 2,000 people out of an anticipation of 20,000 showed because of rain.
- A police official, against the mayors command, sent units to get rid of the crowd.
The Explosion
- A pipe bomb was thrown into the police ranks.
- Seven policeman were killed with at least sixty others injured.
- Police fired into the crowd and killed four workers.