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The Chicago Strikes
The Chicago labor movement harbored a large faction of anarchists. The sheer force of the strikes and the intensity of the demonstrations seemed to melt the wheels of the factory owners like ore. At the McCormick Reaper works in Chicago, union activists clashed with strike breakers and police. Several activists were dead and more were injured, broken under the wooden clubs of Chicago cops.
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