As it happens, we had a perfectly good holiday waiting to happen yesterday, May 1: May Day. That particular observance has been rather ill starred in the United States. Like much else on our calendar, May Day has its origins in the pagan past with strong sexual overtones having to do with fertility and rebirth.
... and to commemorate Chicago's bloody Haymarket riot of 1886. Since then, most of the world has ob...
August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel were hanged in 1887 as conspirators in the Haymarket Square riots. A few facts: The Haymarket Square riot occurred May 4, 1886, at a rally called to protest the fact that police had killed between four and six people on May 3 at a strike at a McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. factory. They were striking for an eight-hour workday.
..., the gentle Quaker, was tried for causing a riot when all that he did was to preach a sermon on Gra...865, 17 N.E. 898, involving the Haymarket riot; In re Debs, , involving the Pullman strike; ...
...(1) . On May 4, 1886, Chicago's Haymarket Square was host to a rally in support of a nationa... immigrant-led class warfare, the Haymarket Riot epitomizes the view of the union as hostile and th...
... of several police officers at the Haymarket riot. Using a number of their peremptory challenge...
The U.S. has a reputation, mostly deserved, for competent government that maintains order while protecting the rights of citizens. And so, students in a labor-management course I taught last semester at George Washington University's business school reacted with astonishment when we watched the film "Matewan. During the several classes it took to finish the lengthy movie, students - native-born as much as those from such places as Ukraine, Brazil, South Korea and Switzerland - voiced surprise at how coal company executives strode into the small West Virginia mining town in 1920 and informed the mayor they were now in charge.
...Or of the Haymarket riot in Chicago on May 4, 1886, which began as a r...
... convicted of conspiracy after the Haymarket riot, stated, "If they use cannons against us, we shall...
Entering the fray surrounding the naming of a North West Side park after a biracial female activist whose husband was hanged for killing a cop, Mayor Richard Daley Tuesday defended the Park District's move, labeling her critics "sexist" for opposing the proposal. The Park District named the park after [Lucy Parsons] as part of a plan to name nine such parks after women leaders. The mayor said Parsons was "a social reformer" and should be recognized for her civil rights work during that era. Parsons, also a journalist, wrote an article where she urged poor people to use explosives to get power -- acts the FOP described as a woman "whose historic roots come from the defense of her husband," media reports say.
... a police officer during the 1886 Haymarket riot. The FOP has never forgotten that act and doe...
CHICAGO Edward Meyer, a connoisseur of the bizarre, has collected everything from locks of George Washington's hair to nail- polish artwork. But in 26 years trotting the globe seeking artifacts and oddities for Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museums, he never found anything to match the old Cook County, Ill., gallows, which was put up for auction this month.
... labor activists involved in the 1886 Haymarket Riot. It would have been a centerpiece for an alre...
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