Initial Summary:
At the end of April and the beginning of May in 1886 there was an organized labor strike in Chicago. The large crowd of labor activists were striking for the
eight-hour day to become to norm in the workforce. On May 3 police open fired at the crowd of activists at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. Four of the non-violent strikers were killed during the shooting. The members of the labor movement were disgusted and outraged by this and came back the next day to continue the rally. The rally remained peaceful until an unknown person threw a bomb into the crowd of nearly 200 police men. Seven officers were killed and over 70 were injured. This caused police retaliation and they strating shooting into the crowd of ralliers killing and injuring many people. Police had a major crackdown on the labor movement after this. There were hundreds of arrests made along with the closing of two activists newspapers being shut down. Eventually four men were hung for the incident. This event was one of the frist "Red Scare", event in our country because a lot of the activists were immigrants. Due to the brutal outcome of the event the public was put in a frenzie of fear. Overall, because the public veiwed this event as negative by the activists it caused a set back for the labor movement.
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