Hay Market Riot By Lily Smith Arly Gomez

Hay. Market Riot By: Lily Smith & Arly Gomez

Who, What, When, Where, Why, How ● ● ● Who: The Knights of Labor What: Haymarket Riot When: Occurred in 1886 Where: Near Chicago's Haymarket Square Why: It was a setback for the organized labor movement in America How: It was a protest

15 notes 1. 2. At Least eight people have died. violent confrontation between police and labour protesters. 3. became a symbol of the international struggle for workers' rights. 4. 1, 500 Chicago workers, was organized by German-born labor radicals in protest of the killing of a striker by the Chicago police 5. The Knights of Labor was an exceptionally progressive organization for its day 6. they can cause financial damage to the company involved since no work is being performed. 7. There were several police dead aslo 8. It was caused by a bomb that someone threw 9. There was four men hanged for the arrest of the riot 10. All of the men arrested were convicted 12. The event happened after the civil war 13. The may concern were the length of the work and the conditions. 14. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. 15. Strikes by industrial workers were increasingly common in the United States in the 1880 s, a time when working conditions were often dismal and dangerous and wages were low.