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Part Two: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The Copse Statue

In 18 89, the police put up a statue in haymarket square in honor of the fallen officer. In 19 25, a street car driver, probably on purpose, jumps the tracks with the street car and ploughs down the statue. The next year, the weather men, who are the dical fact, part of a radical faction in the anti war movement, they just fucky and blow up the statue. And now it's in the lobby of the chicago police headquarters, where every day every cop can see a statue of a crooked cop.

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