"How come you don't work 14 hours a day?..."

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25. Women, children, men, beaten and shot in 1880

(Thank you for the picture, B.S.)



The ones without the sticks...

Again in 1884, and that was the basis for the hanging...

...
The police panicked,
and in the darkness
many shot at their own men

Anti-labor governments around the world
used the Chicago incident to
crush local union movements.

The Haymarket meeting was almost over and only about two hundred people remained when they were attacked by 176 policemen carrying Winchester repeater rifles. Fielden was speaking; even Lucy and Albert Parsons had left because it was beginning to rain. Then someone, unknown to this day, threw the first dynamite bomb ever used in peacetime history of the United States.
...

Peacetime? Protesters being shot by police, with weapons provided by business owners and passed out by the Pinkertons they hired, though I can't find that link right now.

Here.

"... public opinion ran strongly against them. The majority view was expressed by the owner of a Chicago clothing firmwho declared, “No, I don’t consider these people to have been found guilty of any offense, but they must be hanged...the labor movement must be
crushed!”

Here.

That struggle isn't over.