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Have you ever wondered why your parents work for 8 hours? Well in 1886 around 120 years ago there was no limit to work. You would come in to work early in the morning and come out late at night. But then on May 4, 1886 there was a strike at the Haymarket Square in Chicago the strike was going against the hours they had to work. On May Day 1886, the workers at the Harvesting Machine Co. in Chicago began a strike in the hope of gaining a shorter work day. On May 3, police were used to protect strikebreakers and a scuffle broke out, one person was killed and 50 injured. It was a horrible day May 4, 1886 when anarchists murdered eight Chicago police officers. The offenders shot at the officers and threw a bomb during a labor riot. Blood ran in the streets and before it was over 70 people were killed or wounded. The suspects were rounded up, tried and were sentenced to be hanged. One suspect blew himself up cheating the hangman but the others danced at the bottom of the gallows located at Hubbard and Dearborn Streets.

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