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	Haymarket Riot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Haymarket Riot on 4 May 1886 in Chicago, Illinois is the origin of international May Day observances and in popular literature inspired the caricature of "the bomb-throwing anarchist".
		In 1893 the Haymarket Martyrs Monument by sculptor Albert Weinert was raised at Waldheim.
		In 1889 a commemorative nine-foot bronze statue of a Chicago policeman by sculptor Johannes Gelert was erected in the middle of Haymarket Square with private funds raised by the Union League Club of Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haymarket_Square_Riot (1556 words)

	Haymarket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haymarket is a section of Newcastle upon Tyne city centre.
		Haymarket railway station is a railway station in the area of Edinburgh.
		Haymarket Square is an area of Boston, Massachusetts still used for open-air markets, though several blocks from the historic square.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Haymarket (154 words)

	MSN Encarta - Haymarket Square Riot
		A meeting was called at Haymarket Square on May 4 as a protest against police violence by a group of mainly German-born anarchist workers living in Chicago.
		The police attempted to disperse the meeting, and in the ensuing riot a bomb was thrown, which triggered another gun battle.
		In 1893 the three in prison were pardoned by the governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld, mainly on the ground that no evidence had been presented actually connecting the defendants with the throwing of the bomb.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554544/Haymarket_Riot.html (240 words)

	haymarket riot
		The accused perpetrators of the Haymarket Riot were generally hated across America, but, nevertheless, a crowd of 15,000 people went to the burial of the executed men at Waldheim Cemetery.
		(Haymarket Revisited 26) Fielden, Neebe, and Schwab were all released from jail, and the injustice of the rulings handed out during the Haymarket Riot was at last shown for what it was.
		Although the mystery of who actually did throw the bomb that started the riot was never solved, the Haymarket Riot was an event that opened the eyes of Americans around the country to the turmoil of the labor movement that was entangling and encompassing America.
	www.uhigh.ilstu.edu /soc/labor/haymarket_riot.htm (1563 words)

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		An oversized statue of a policeman was transferred from the square to the city police academy in 1972.
		The workers were speaking peaceably to a crowd in Haymarket Square, when 175 police--led by a notoriously anti-worker officer --appeared and ordered the workers to disperse.
		After the "riot," the union leaders--most of them labeled "anarchists"--were arrested, tried and condemned to death in a prosecution widely denounced as a travesty and extensively prejudiced by anti-worker newspaper publicity.
	www.gmpiu.org /pages/news_09_28f.htm (544 words)

	Haymarket Riot -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was later named a National Historic Monument by the Department of the Interior, the only cemetery memorial to receive that distinction.
		On May 4, 1927 (oddly enough, the anniversary of the Riot), a street car jumped its tracks and crashed into the monument, which was moved again.
		After being moved from its original location, it was blown up at least twice more, in October 1969 and again a year later, reportedly by the (Click link for more info and facts about Weather Underground) Weather Underground.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/haymarket_riot.htm (1054 words)

	: haymarket square, knights of labor, powderly, great RR strike of 1877 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A labor protest rally was organized in Haymarket Square in Chicago on May 4 to protest a police attack on strikers the day before which had left 2 dead.
		The Haymarket affair and executions were part of a reaction by business leaders and public officials to labor's "great upheaval" of the mid-1880s, especially the rapid growth of the Knights of Labor.
		Haymarket was also an imporant symbol for unionists such as Emma Goldberg and Big Bill Haywood.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/karen16.html (1156 words)

	The Labor Movement in the Public Eye
		The Haymarket square riot in 1886 is an example of such rioting.
		In the Haymarket square riot, four strikers died at Chicago's McCormick plant after the rally turned violent.
		The strikers of the Pullman strike were practically considered to be anarchists in the minds of the public due to their violent rioting.
	www.ilwu19.com /edu/public.htm (1102 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Haymarket Square Riot
		Haymarket Square Riot, confrontation between police and protesters that took place on May 4, 1886, in Haymarket Square in Chicago.
		The Haymarket Riot was a confrontation between police and protesters that took place on May 4, 1886, in Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /Haymarket_Square_Riot.html (166 words)

	THE HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
		Eventually, eight conspirators were brought to trial for the riot and seven of them received the death sentence, while the eighth was given 15 years in prison.
		The city of Chicago erected a statue of a police officer in Haymarket Square on May 4, 1889 and it became the first such monument in the nation.
		For many years, the police were seen as the martyr’s of the riot but with the rise of the big labor unions, that perception slowly changed.
	www.prairieghosts.com /haymarket.html (805 words)

	Haymarket Square Riot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Organized on an industrial basis, with women, fl workers (after 1883), and employers welcomed, excluding only bankers, lawyers, gamblers, and stockholders, the Knights of Labor aided various groups in strikes and boycotts, winning important strikes on the Union Pacific in 1884 and on the Wabash RR in 1885.
		But failure in the Missouri Pacific strike in 1886 and the Haymarket Square riot (for which it was, although not responsible, condemned by the press) caused a loss of prestige and strengthened factional disputes between the craft unionists and the advocates of all-inclusive unionism.
		With the motto "an injury to one is the concern of all, the Knights of Labor attempted through educational means to further its aims-an 8-hour day, abolition of child and convict labor, equal pay for equal work, elimination of private banks, cooperation-which, like its methods, were highly idealistic.
	www.afscmelocal34.org /haymarket_square_riot.htm (411 words)

	The Haymarket Riot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The physical attack that occurred on May 3, 1886 at the McCormick Reaper resembled a riot in which picketers pelted stones; police responded by exerting their clubs and firing their revolvers resulting in many wounded, at least one tragically.
		For this purpose, a large contingent of officers was concentrated at Desplaines Street Station, half a block south of Haymarket Square, and additional precincts around the city.
		In response to the bomb, policemen began firing their revolvers into the crowd, “Within less than five minutes the Haymarket ‘riot’ was over” (Avrich 208).
	users.mercyhurst.edu /bpittman/www/haymarket.html (1446 words)

	Haymarket Square Riot
		A crowd of 20,000 demonstrators was anticipated at Haymarket Square, where area farmers traditionally sold their produce.
		The Haymarket Riot was a signal event in the early history of American labor.
		For many years the police at Haymarket Square were regarded as martyrs and the workers as violent anarchists; that view moderated to a large extent in later times.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h750.html (523 words)

	Haymarket Square biography : albums : icebergradio.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The quartet took the name Haymarket Square in honor of the Chicago Labor riot that took place at the turn of the century.
		Soon they were composing their own songs in imitation of their idols Jefferson Airplane, while also absorbing the city's blues and folk traditions, and adding a smattering of Lovecraftian occult touches.
		Haymarket Square's escalating stature led to an offer from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in the summer of 1968 to act as backup musicians for a live work of art that was on display at the time, the Original Baron and Bailey Light Circus, produced by a pair of University of Illinois professors.
	www.icebergradio.com /artist/24426/kings_of_convenience.html (490 words)

	AllRefer.com - Haymarket Square riot (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Haymarket Square riot, outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
		A demonstration, largely staged by a small group of anarchists, caused a crowd of some 1,500 people to gather at Haymarket Square.
		When policemen attempted to disperse the meeting, a bomb exploded and rioting ensued.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Haymarke.html (274 words)

	Chicago: 1886 The Haymarket Riot
		Two days later shooting and one death occurred during a riot at the McCormick Harvester plant when police tangled with the rioters.
		On May 4 events reached a tragic climax at Haymarket Square where a protest meeting was called to denounce the events of the preceding day.
		The Haymarket Riot statue, a 9-foot bronze of a Chicago policeman of the 1880's, was erected in 1889 near the original site of the riot on Randolph Street near Halsted street as a tribute to the Chicago policemen who lost their lives in the Haymarket square riot of 1886.
	www.chipublib.org /004chicago/timeline/haymarket.html (388 words)

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		May 4 at the Haymarket, a site on Randolph between Halsted and Des Plaines Street, but due to low attendance it was moved a half block away to Des Plaines Street north of Randolph Street.
		In his remarks he claimed the jury was selected to convict and the judge so prejudiced against the defendants that a fair trial was impossible.
		The monument was originally situated in the middle of Haymarket Square, where street car lines were forced to swerve around it.
	www.chipublib.org /004chicago/disasters/haymarket.html (771 words)

	Haymarket Riot -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Two of the most serious incidents were the Haymarket bombing of 1886 in Chicago and the Pullman Company strike in 1894.
		Exhibit on the events, societal and historical roots, and legacy of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago.
		Comprehensive exhibit on the events, causes, and legacy of the late-nineteenth century Haymarket Riot in Chicago.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039667?tocId=9039667 (813 words)

	The Labor Movement in the Public Eye
		This violence and the way in which it was reported suceeded in turning the public against the labor movement as a whole.
		In one public view, the Pullman Strike was seen as a war against the government and society (Doc.
		The strikers of the Pullman strike were practically considered to be anarchists in the minds of the public due to thier violent rioting.
	www.cyberlearning-world.com /nhhs/html2/dbq3.htm (1179 words)

	HADC - Police officer's wooden baton used in Haymarket Square Riot. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HADC - Police officer's wooden baton used in Haymarket Square Riot.
		Police officer's wooden baton used in Haymarket Square Riot.
		Written on baton: 'Billy' from Haymarket Riot, May 4, 1886.
	www.chicagohs.org /hadc/visuals/artifact/004A05A.htm (64 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		The anarchists called for a rally the next night at Haymarket Square to protest the deaths.
		Harrison himself was in the crowd, making himself as conspicuous as possible: "I want the people to know their mayor is here." After Spies and Parsons spoke, rain began to fall, dispersing the crowd.
		In June 1893, a Haymarket monument was unveiled in Chicago's Waldheim Cemetery.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/e_haymarket.html (983 words)

	Haymarket Riot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This act of violence was linked to the Knights of Labor and was a major setback to their cause.
		In 1889, a 9-foot tall bronze statue of a Chicago policeman was erected near the site of the riot.
		After being moved from its original location, it was blown up at least twice by the Weather Underground before being moved to the lobby of police headquarters.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/haymarket_riot (587 words)

	CRFC: Analyzing the Haymarket Riot
		By utilizing primary and secondary sources related to and recounting the Haymarket Riot and the trial of the Haymarket defendants, students are expected:
		Compare the transcript of the Haymarket trial voir dire proceedings and a recent trial, such as Timothy McVeigh, O. Simpson, and Rodney King.
		Along with my fellow Haymarket Affair team, Lora Radke, Wisconsin; Jack Rousso, Washington; and Ann Schultzi, Colorado, I'd like to send a special thanks to my North Carolina group, Brian Etheridge of Wake County, Kevin Holland of Johnston County, and Beth Wiley of Wake County, who were tremendously helpful, creative, and supportive.
	www.crfc.org /americanjury/CRFCAnalyzingtheHaymarketRiot.htm (1544 words)

	Haymarket Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A mass meeting was called for the night May4, 1886, in the city haymarket at Randolph and Desplaines, its purpose was to protest a police action from the precious day in which strikers and their supporters at the McCormick Reaper plant on Blue Island had been killed and injured by police
		The mass meeting in the haymarket was so poorly planned that the organizers had to round up speakers on the spur of the moment.
		The myth of the Haymarket Riot was born.
	my.execpc.com /~blake/haymar~1.htm (747 words)

	Knights of Labor
		Members of the Knights also felt betrayed by their leaders for the Haymarket Square incident in Chicago.
		The Haymarket Square riot was a confrontation between police and protesters that took place on May 4, 1886.
		Along with the Haymarket Square riots in Chicago there was another big reason for the downfall of the Knights.
	www.stfrancis.edu /ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/btopics/works/KnightsLabor.html (1238 words)

	Haymarket Riot on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Haymarket Riot section of the Grateful Dead Family discography...
		Haymarket Riot were a Berkeley band who were probably formed in 1965 as The Livin' End.
		They changed their name to Haymarket Riot in 1966.
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/haymarket_riot.html (336 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003014163 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is a layered and dynamic revelation of late nineteenth-century Chicago, and of the lives of a handful of remarkable individuals who were willing to risk their lives for the promise of social change.
		On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd.
		At a time of bitter class war and a groundswell of working-class radicalism, the Haymarket Riot produced a wave of hysteria across the nation, leading to the trial and hanging of the leaders of the anarchist/socialist movement.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/cons041/2003014163.html (369 words)

	Beatrice.com: Remember the Chicago 8 (You Heard Me, Boomers, 8)
		When Albert was named as a co-conspirator in the Haymarket Square riot of 1886, she helped mobilize his defense.
		Martin Duberman chose to revisit their story in his first novel, Haymarket, from which I had the pleasure of hearing him read a few weeks back.
		It doesn't appear to be a good time for the historical novel, though, as Haymarket has, at least based on a prolonged Googling expedition, attracted few reviews.
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000201.html (286 words)

	RobrBrn.html
		It appears that he was referring to the original Yeggman, the "Ur- Yeggman," the Father of his kind: the man responsible for the Haymarket Square riot in 1886, the man who threw the bomb.
		The first case Siringo worked on was the "great anarchist Haymarket riot case" which he followed up until the final conviction of the ringleaders.
		It was in Chicago, at Haymarket Square that the long road to Reichenbach began.
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