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There was a mass meeting that took place where they were talking about policemen killing and wounding many workers.
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Once the mass meeting ended there were police that moved in to move the people from the square.
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Once all the policemen were in the square someone threw a bomb into the crowd of policemen and the bomb blew up.
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When the bomb exloded many of the towns members and police strarted firing at eachother.
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The towns people were thinking that the policemen threw the bomb into the crowd.
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The police thought that the towns people threw the bomb into them and ment to kill all of them.
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Around eight people were killed from the bombing.
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Eight people were convicted for being radical labor activists.
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The Haymarket riot was a setback for the labor unions because they thought it was many people in the town that helped with the bombing.
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Radical labor activists were thought of by the towns people were called martyrs.
