Haymarket affair

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The Haymarket affair was an 1886 labor protest and bombing in Chicago that became a pivotal moment in the history of workers’ rights and the labor movement in the United States.

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instanceOf bombing
historical event
labor protest
political demonstration
riot
alsoKnownAs Haymarket affair
surface form: Haymarket bombing

Haymarket affair
surface form: Haymarket massacre

Haymarket affair
surface form: Haymarket riot
commemoratedBy International Workers’ Day
commemoratedOn May 1
followedBy Haymarket affair self-linksurface differs
surface form: Haymarket affair trial
hasCasualties several civilians killed
several police officers killed
hasCause labor protest for the eight-hour workday
police attempt to disperse a workers’ rally
hasConsequence galvanized international labor movement
increased repression of anarchists and radicals in the U.S.
strengthened campaign for the eight-hour workday
hasContext late 19th-century U.S. labor movement
struggle for the eight-hour workday
hasDate 1886-05-04
hasEvent bomb thrown at police
peaceful labor rally at Haymarket Square
police gunfire into the crowd
hasInjuries dozens of people injured
hasLegacy pivotal moment in U.S. labor history
symbol of workers’ rights struggle worldwide
hasLegalProceeding trial widely criticized as unjust
hasLocation Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago

Illinois
United States of America
surface form: United States
hasMemorial Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument
hasMemorialLocation Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois
hasOutcome clemency for remaining defendants in 1893
conviction of eight anarchists
execution by hanging of four anarchists
one anarchist’s suicide in prison
hasParticipant Chicago police
Chicago workers
anarchists
employers’ representatives
trade unionists
hasPoliticalIdeologyContext anarchism
socialism
hasRelatedMovement international labor movement
labor movement in the United States
hasTriggerEvent McCormick Harvesting Machine Company strike
hasYear 1886

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Haymarket affair alsoKnownAs Haymarket affair
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Haymarket affair alsoKnownAs Haymarket affair
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Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument commemorates Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket Square bombing of 1886
May Day commemorates Haymarket affair
August Spies notableFor Haymarket affair
August Spies participantIn Haymarket affair
Michael Schwab notableFor Haymarket affair
Michael Schwab participantIn Haymarket affair
German Waldheim Cemetery associatedEvent Haymarket affair
Albert Parsons notableEvent Haymarket affair
Albert Parsons participantIn Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket affair trial
Lucy Parsons associatedWithEvent Haymarket affair
Lucy Parsons supporterOf Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket anarchists
Adolph Fischer participantIn Haymarket affair
Louis Lingg notableEvent Haymarket affair
Oscar Neebe notableFor Haymarket affair
Oscar Neebe participantIn Haymarket affair
Oscar Neebe trial Haymarket affair
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George Engel notableEvent Haymarket affair
George Engel convictedIn Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket affair trial
George Engel partOf Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket anarchists
Samuel Fielden spokeAt Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket rally, Chicago, 1886-05-04
Samuel Fielden arrestedInConnectionWith Haymarket affair
Haymarket Books namedAfter Haymarket affair
Rudolph Schnaubelt notableFor Haymarket affair
Rudolph Schnaubelt wasIndictedFor Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket bombing
Rudolph Schnaubelt notableEvent Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket bombing of 4 May 1886
Arbeiter-Zeitung associatedWith Haymarket affair
Arbeiter-Zeitung associatedWith Haymarket affair
this entity surface form: Haymarket Square bombing
Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby significantEvent Haymarket affair
subject surface form: Richard J. Oglesby
August Vincent Theodore Spies notableFor Haymarket affair
Living My Life describesEvent Haymarket affair
Knights of Labor significant event Haymarket affair
Lucy Waller notableEvent Haymarket affair
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American labor movement hasKeyEvent Haymarket affair
Chicago anarchist movement associatedEvent Haymarket affair
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