The Haymarket affair was a bombing and its violent aftermath that followed a labor demonstration held on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The rally had been called in support of a nationwide strike for an eight-hour workday and came a day after police killed two striking workers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant. When police moved to disperse the Haymarket meeting, an unknown person threw a bomb, and the blast and ensuing gunfire killed several people. Four convicted anarchists were executed on November 11, 1887, and the remaining defendants were pardoned by Governor John Peter Altgeld in 1893. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886
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The Haymarket affair was a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The rally began peacefully in support of workers striking for an eight-hour work day; it was held the day after a May 3 rally at a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company plant on the West Side of Chicago, during which police killed two strikers by opening fire at the crowd as it surged to the gate to confront strikebreakers.
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The Haymarket affair was a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The rally began peacefully
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the bomb blast and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians
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The Haymarket affair was a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. The rally began peacefully
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