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=**Haymarket Square Riot** **: The Turning Point in the Labor Movement** =

On May 1, 1886, a national demonstration for the eight-hour workday was called, and almost 300,000 workers complied. The next day in Chicago-- a center of agitation for the "short" day--the police fired into a crowd of peaceful strikers at the McCormick Harvester Plant. 

The next evening workers assembled in Haymarket Square to listen to Anarchist speakers and protest police brutality. A riot ensued after a bomb was thrown into police; Anarchists were blamed. The flimsy evidence presented at the trial of the accused turned American sentiment, so that by the time that four were hung, they had become martyrs to the cause of labor. Czolgosz was deeply affected by their sacrifice. <span style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">