The Village Voice, May 7th, 2002
'THE WORKERS ASKED ONLY FOR BREAD AND A SHORTENING OF THE LONG HOURS OF TOIL,' MOTHER JONES SAID OF THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE FIRST MAY DAY IN 1886. 'THE AGITATORS GAVE THEM VISIONS. THE POLICE GAVE THEM CLUBS.' (para)UNLIKE SEPTEMBER'S TEPID, GOVERNMENT-SANCTIONED LABOR DAY, THE HISTORY OF MAY 1, THE INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY, IS SOAKED IN BLOOD AND CLASS STRUGGLE. ONE HUNDRED and sixteen years ago this week, at a mass demonstration in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a bomb was thrown that killed a policeman. Eight anarchists were rounded up in the aftermath. Four were hanged.
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