Haymaker Square Riot
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On May 1, 1886, 340,000 went on a nation wide strike in urge for an eight hour work day. Chicago was the center of the movement. On May 3, 1886, the Chicago police fired into a crowd of workers at the McCormick Harvester Plant, killing one man and wounding many others. On May 4, 1886, the Haymarket Massacare occurred at a mass protest in Chicago's Haymaker Square. Violence eruptted when 180 police officers stormed the dedmonstration to break it up. An unknown assailant threw a bomb into the front lines of the police advance, killing eight policemen and injuring sixty-seven more. The police responded by shooting and clubbing members of the crowd, killing and wounding many more. As a result, four labor leaders, none of whom had anything to do with the bomb, were hanged.
