| | Turning Points of Wisconsin: Bay View Labor Riot of 1886 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | When several thousand Milwaukee workers marched toward the Bay View Rolling Mills on May 5, 1886, advocating an 8-hour work day, the state militia opened fire on the unarmed crowd and killed seven people. |
 | | This six-page article from the Milwaukee Free Press 25 years later reviews those events, shows photographs from the day, and includes a long reminiscence by Emil Wallber, who was mayor of Milwaukee at the time of the demonstration. |
 | | His memories given here do not always agree with the state's official report written at the time (given elsewhere on the Turning Points site). |
| www.wisconsinhistory.org /turningpoints/search.asp?id=933 (139 words) |