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

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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The First Automated Harvesting Machine

On May 3, workers at the mc cormic reaper factory in New York City went on strike. Police fired into a crowd and killed two people; no cops were so much as injured. This all feels like a thing that's happened repeated wat. And then the next day, sunday, nothing bad happened. There wasn't a strike on sunday because they didn't have to,. But everyone hates a monday, am i right? Yo.

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