HY 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic Security, William Jennings Bryan
29 Aug 2016
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Crisis of the 1890s: workers and farmers fight back: working-class protests: options. At this time, about 10% of workers were in unions. People who worked with their hands- they were highly skilled. Industrial workers were usually women and hardly skilled: knights of labor. They organized women, blacks, immigrants, skilled, unskilled. Everybody in said plant is in this industry. Highly against the abuses they are seeing: haymarket riot. 1886: a massive strike year on may 1. Half million workers walk off the job and things become violent in the haymarket square. Protestors are listening to speeches and one of the businesses being attacked called the police and the police fired randomly into the crowd, killing random people. The protestors were mad that the police killed some of their people and during the next riot, someone (still unknown to this day) threw a bomb into the crowd and killed more people.
