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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 Winner as Much as You Can Win

Samuel fielden was born a poor weaver in england. He cut his political teeth speaking on behalf of the union in the states and slavery. Then he moved to chicago, started working 12 to 14 hour days as a stone cutter. And then he found himself as a speak for the anarchists. When they arrested him, they just literally showed up at his house and disappeared him. His family didn't know what happened to him for days,. until his daughter went to the jail and then heard him, like, singing distantly down the cell block.

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