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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.
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Haymarket Square [1] is a commercial area on the Near West Side [2] of Chicago at Randolph Street and Des Plaines Street [3] just east of Halsted Street, [4] known primarily for the protest and bombing that occurred on May 4, 1886. [5] [6] It was a wide, [7] busy commercial food produce market [8] [9] for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Food riots broke out in East Anglia. Workers demanded a double wage and for the setting of triple prices for food. [3] 1824 (England) The Combination Act of 1799 was repealed. [2] 1824 (United States) Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Textile Strike. [1] 1825 (United States) United Tailoresses of New York organized in New York City. [1] 1825 (United States)
The Haymarket statue was vandalized with black paint on May 4, 1968, the 82nd anniversary of the Haymarket affair, following a confrontation between police and demonstrators at a protest against the Vietnam War. [5] On October 6, 1969, shortly before the "Days of Rage" protests, the statue was destroyed when a bomb was placed between its legs.
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.
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket Affair (1886).
George Engel (April 15, 1836 – November 11, 1887) was a labor union activist executed after the Haymarket riot, along with Albert Parsons, August Spies, and Adolph Fischer. Early life [ edit ]