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9 Οκτ 2024 · The Haymarket Affair, also known as the Haymarket Riot, was a violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights.
16 Δεκ 2009 · The Haymarket Riot: When a Protest Against Anti‑Labor Police Brutality Turned Violent. Take a look back at one of the controversial chapters in America’s 19th‑century labor movement.
The Haymarket affair, also known as the Haymarket massacre, the Haymarket riot, the Haymarket Square riot, or the Haymarket Incident, was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
To protest against this brutal attack of the police, the unions agreed to organize a ‘protest meeting’ at the Haymarket Square the next day. The anarchist leaders responded rapidly by printing fliers in English and German, appealing to the workers to come prepared for a Mass-Meeting. The flier said,
The Haymarket Affair created panic and hysteria in Chicago and increased anti-labour and anti-immigrant sentiment and suspicion of the international anarchist movement, throughout the country (several Chicago labour leaders were anarchist immigrants from Germany).
On May 3, 1886, unarmed strikers clashed with police at Chicago’s McCormick Reaper Works factory. The deaths of six workers became a call for direct action, and a public rally was called for the following day to be held in Haymarket Square.
2 ημέρες πριν · The public tended to blame organized labor for the Haymarket tragedy, and many persons had become convinced that the activities of unions were likely to be attended by violence. The Knights never regained the ground they lost in 1886, and, until after the turn of the century, organized labor seldom gained any measure of public sympathy.