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100,000 American workers go on strike in demand for 8-hour work days.
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The National Labor Union comes up with the idea of having an eight hour work day.
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Michael Schwab wrote an article that called for the need to resist the capitalists.
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The National Labor Union requests congress to have a maximum of an 8-hour work day.
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Illinois enacts the 8-hour work day but none of the employers follow it.
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Chicago's Eight-Hour League gets a new secretary; Albert Parsons.
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The Labor Union and Federation of Organized Trades sets the goal of having an 8-hour work day by May 1, 1886.
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The protest turns deadly when a bomb is dropped and police open fire on the crowd of protestors.
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The Grand Jury begins the examination of the witnesses of the Haymarket Riot.
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Some of the protestors at the HMR were hanged.
