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Striked for 8-hour work days
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Coorfinated strikes and demonstrations nation-wide; demanding eight-hour work days
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Bombing at Haymarket Square. Bomb thrown at policemen. policemen fire at strikers and strikers fire back. Policemen and Workingmen die
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31 men were persecuted to be asscessories of murder. 8 other men stand trial for the death of policeman Mathias Degan.
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981 citizens questioned during voir dire process.
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227 Testify, defendents prosecuted for instigating violence.
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Conclusions: All were to be executed except Neebe, who was to serve 15 years in the penitentary.
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In Chicago, 150,000 to 500,000 wittness the funeral procession of Parsons, Spies, Engel, and Fischer.
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Louis Ling dies of suicide in his jail cell a day before execution.
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Parsons, Spies, Engel, & Fischer are all executed.
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Fielden and Schwab are moved to Joliet Prison with Neebe.
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Governor of Illinois (John Peter Alteld) pardons Neebe, Fielden, Schwab.
