Haymarket+Bombing


 * The Haymarket Bombing of 1886

The tragic bombing of the Chicago Haymarket Square occurred during the first May Day labor movement. About 80,000 Knights of Labor, members of an influential labor union, gathered to call for a general strike to get a guaranteed eight hour work day.

Also present in Chicago at the time were 200 or so violent anarchists, who held to the ideal that all government had to go.**