HAYMARKET RIOT

BACKGROUND

• MAY 1st, 1886
• Groups of workers mounted a national demonstration for 8 hour work days
• After this, many strikes started to happen

BACKGROUND

• MAY 3rd, 1886
• Fights happened between police and workers
• Union leaders called a protest rally in Chicago Haymarket square

THE PROTEST

• Someone threw a bomb at a police officer killing him
• In the riot that followed there were gunfire between police and protesters, killed dozens on both sides

AFTER STRIKE

• We now have 8 hour work days

THESIS

• I think that unions didn't treat their workers good at first
• 9+ hours a day
• Low wages
• Now have 8 hours day

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CONSTITUTIONAL CONECTION

• 14th amendment