Haymarket+Riot+of+1886

__**Haymarket Riot of 1886**__

===**The Problems** === === Workers were extremely unhappy with the working conditions they were presented with. These conditions consisted of hours that sometimes extended over 12 hours a day with low wages. This left the workers with little sleep and time to tend to family needs. ===

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=== **Strike!** The Haymarket Riot occurred on May 4th, 1886. The riots were in response to an ongoing labor movement in Chicago. The riot left over 70 injured and seven dead from a bomb which exploded during the riot. Eight men were convicted of being anarchists and for conspiracy. Out of the eight convicted men, four men were hung, three men were jailed, and later released by John Peter Altgeld, the governor of Illinois who pardon the prisoners due to a lack of evidence and unfair trial seven years later in 1893. The last of the eight convicted men committed suicide in jail prior to the of three men being pardoned. ===

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=== **Albert Parsons** , one of the men convicted and executed for conspiracy in relation to the Haymarket Square Riot. He was in a [|hall a block away] from the square as he was waiting for the crowd to disperse. Then he witnessed the aftermath of the bomb being thrown. "If there was no evidence to show that I was legally responsible for the deed, then my conviction and the execution of sentence is nothing less than willful, malicious, and deliberate mur der, as foul a murder as may be found in the annals of religious, political, or any other sort of persecution." ===

**Public Reaction** The public’s actions that took place in the Haymarket Riot immediately changed the way the labor movement was viewed. Originally viewed as a union of workers that held intentions of achieving better working and living conditions for themselves and their families, the Haymarket Riot changed that. Laborers were now viewed as ruffians who achieved nothing and caused an excess of political discontent.

media type="youtube" key="_OQxncb2ihQ" height="349" width="425" align="left" **Impact** The riot lead to the creation of the 8-hour law; leaving workers with more bearable working conditions and hours. It also left them with more rest in between shifts allowing them to increase their efficiency in production.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linder, Douglas O. "Haymarket Account." <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//UMKC School of Law// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. 2006. Web. 16 May 2011. <http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haymarket/haymktaccount.html>. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">YouTube - Haymarket Martyrs--Origin of International Workers Day Pt 1." // YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. // Web. 16 May 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OQxncb2ihQ>. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 32px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;">