Haymarket+Riot


 * __Haymarket Riot__**

In 1886, The workers at McCormick Harvester Company in Chicago went on strike. Once all their workers were on strikes, they hired strikebreakers, people who take the strikers' jobs. On May 3, 1886, the strikebreakers had ran into the workers on strike outside the factory. Police had showed up and shot their guns and 4 workers had been killed. A rally led by Anarchists, people who opposed governments, had developed in Haymarket Square. A bomb had exploded during the rally which killed 7 police officers. 8 anarchists had been arrested in the Haymarket Riot. 4 of the 8 arrested had been tried, convicted, and hanged. Many people had thought that the unions were led by anarchists and the Knights of Labor's membership had dropped.