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  2. Haymarket affair - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Timothy Messer-Kruse - Wikipedia

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    Timothy F. Messer-Kruse (born () March 13, 1963) is an American historian who specializes in American labor history.His research into the 1886 Haymarket affair led him to reappraise the conventional narrative that the trial was a miscarriage of justice, arguing to the contrary it was fairly conducted by standards of the era. [1]

  4. The Haymarket Conspiracy - Wikipedia

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    The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks is a 2012 book by historian Timothy Messer-Kruse on the Haymarket affair and the origins of American anarchism. References [ edit ]

  5. Bay View massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Bay View massacre (sometimes also referred to as the Bay View Tragedy) was the result of a strike held on May 4, 1886, by 7,000 building-trades workers and 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding the enforcement of an eight-hour work day.

  6. August Spies - Wikipedia

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    August Vincent Theodore Spies (/ s p iː s /, SPEES; December 10, 1855 – November 11, 1887) was an American upholsterer, radical labor activist, and newspaper editor.An anarchist, Spies was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder following a bomb attack on police in an event remembered as the Haymarket affair.

  7. Frederick Ebersold - Wikipedia

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    In 1886, when Chicago's population was approximately 825,000, just over 1,000 cops were employed. [5] Ebersold was commended by some for how he handled his officers in the perilous days leading up to the Haymarket affair. [3] Arrest warrant issued by Ebersold for Rudolph Schnaubelt, who was a suspect for the bombing at the Haymarket Affair

  8. Union violence in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1886 the Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was a protest rally and subsequent violence on May 4 at the Haymarket Square [15] in Chicago. The rally supported striking workers. When police began to disperse the public meeting, an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb into their midst.

  9. Bill Haywood - Wikipedia

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    Other speakers at the convention included Eugene Debs, leader of the Socialist Party of America; Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America; [13] and Lucy Parsons, a major labor organizer whose husband was hanged in relation to the Haymarket affair. After its foundation, the IWW would become aggressively ...