Strikes turn Violent

  Haymarket Square- May 4,1886, 3,000 people gathered at Chicago's Haymarket Square to protest Police Brutality. Someone tossed a bomb into the police line. police fired on the workers; seven police officers and several workers died.3 speakers and 5 radicals were charged with inciting a riot. All eight were convicted.

The Homestead Strike- June 29,1892 Carnegie steel plant. Frick announced plans to cut wages. Frick hired armed guards to protect the plant and hired scabs, or strikebreakers, to keep it operating.In a battle that left at least three guards and nine workers dead, the steelworkers forced out the guards and kept the plant closed till the National Guard arrived

SCAB

A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike.