HAYMARKET STRIKE

BACKGROUND

• "8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest,
• 8 hours for what we will"
• Strikes eroupted in a # of cities.
• May 3, police broke up a fight between
• strikers and scabs.

BACKGROUND

• Scabs- a negative term for a worker called
• in by an employer to replace striking laborers.
• A scab allows company's to continue working,
• avoiding the union.
• Police actions caused many casualtys on workers.

BACKGROUND

• May, 4th leaders called for a protest.
• A group of anarchasts joined the strike.
• Anarchasts- racials who appose all
• government.

WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY?

• Someone threw a bomb into a police formation.
• They never caught the guy.
• The riot started after the bomb went off.

GOVERNMENTS ROLE

• The government took the side of
• the owners.
• EFFECTS OF THE STRIKE
• The progestors and anarchasts lost.

Thesis-
Buisness owners can get carried away with the power they have. They leave workers with only one way to solve the problem, strike.