Jan. 28, 2025

Antichrists: Haymarket Affair

Antichrists: Haymarket Affair
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Ever wondered how a simple gummy can spark a conversation about history and labor movements? We kicked off this episode of the History of Buffoons with a lighthearted chat about our latest obsession with Skittles gummies and the chaos of flu season in our homes. Amid tales of feline antics and our favorite brews—Kate's Kona Big Wave and Bradley's Foggy Geezer hazy IPA—we bring humor and insight to our beverage choices, setting the stage for a journey back in time.

Transporting you to the gritty streets of Chicago during the Industrial Revolution, we unravel the harsh realities that shaped the labor movement. Amid stories of immigrant struggles and union uprisings, we spotlight the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor, as well as the tumultuous events of 1886, including the Haymarket Riot. Our narrative focuses on the courage and determination of those who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, against a backdrop of strikes, tension, and the push for an eight-hour workday.

The chapter on the Haymarket Affair dives into the chaos of the bomb incident and its tragic aftermath, highlighting the trial's controversial nature and miscarriage of justice. With a closer look at figures like Albert Parsons and Reverend Fielden, we explore the mystery and media frenzy that ensued. As we reflect on the emotional toll and socio-political repercussions of these events, we underscore the lasting impact on labor rights and social justice, leaving you with a deeper appreciation of their legacy.


http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1381.html#:~:text=Until%20the%201930s%2C%20it%20was,12%2Dhour%20days%20common%20in

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-ushistory2os2xmaster/chapter/building-industrial-america-on-the-backs-of-labor/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair#May_Day_parade_and_strikes

https://www.britannica.com/event/Haymarket-Affair



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Chapters

00:16 - Beer and Childhood Memories

08:53 - Labor Unions and Workers' Rights

18:54 - Haymarket Riot and Labor Movement

25:06 - Haymarket Riot and Deadly Bomb Incident

28:48 - Haymarket Trial and Legal Injustice

42:50 - The Haymarket Affair and Labor Movement

Transcript
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Oh hey there, oh hey there.

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I'm not used to starting it, so I was waiting for you.

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I know I'm staring you down.

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And you're just staring at me like what's happening right now?

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I don't know what to do.

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I was waiting to see if you were going to start.

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Hey, we're the History of Buffoons, that's right.

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I'm staring you down and you're just staring at me like what's happening right now?

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I don't know what to do.

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I was waiting to see if you were going to start.

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Hey, we're the History of Buffoons, that's right.

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I'm Kate and I'm Bradley.

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How are you, kate?

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I'm good, good, I discovered something.

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What did you discover?

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Skittles gummies.

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They're delicious and I love gummy bears, gummy worms.

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So taste the rainbow and gummies.

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Don't mind if I do?

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This is delicious.

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How's that go?

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This is delicious.

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Um, yeah, I had them actually quite a while ago now, I don't remember when, it doesn't really matter but I had no idea.

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It was a thing.

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Oh yeah, I still prefer regular Skittles over Skittles gummies, but they're good.

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Yeah, I like them.

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I enjoy them.

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I also do like the gummy worms from Menards.

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Yes, I know we haven't got you those in a while.

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Oh those are amazing.

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They're just so basic but so good.

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I remember Tr remember tractor supply having ones that I liked.

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I think my dad got me some of those yeah once upon a time that's funny.

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So all of my cats are put up, save one.

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Hi, penny.

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Penny decided not to come for the treats, for the treats yeah, as a bribe to lock them in that's okay, though the room she's like you said before.

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She's the she's quiet.

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She's the least one to cause a ruckus.

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She is so, or if she's the last one that would cause a ruckus, I should say Also don't prove me wrong.

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Penny live up to your name.

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Yes, penny.

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Penny for your thoughts.

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Oh penny for your thoughts.

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Oh okay, never mind.

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How are you?

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I'm doing well.

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Um, appreciate the softball there.

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Hit it out of the park, but uh, no, I'm doing well.

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Yeah, nothing to nothing to report here.

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I guess good out of the ordinary.

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So well, your whole family was sick oh my god.

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Yeah, we, uh, we got the whole.

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The flu ran through the house, so everybody had a touch of it and that was not that great, so we're all doing pretty good.

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Sarah still got her cough, though, which has been yeah, I hate that that always lasts forever, it just lingers, and it's the worst.

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Luckily I did not have much of one um here and there, but not like what she got.

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But yeah, the kids um, they bounced back relatively quickly too, so that was nice.

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I think the person who took the longest to bounce back was Sarah.

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So yeah but yeah.

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I think I got the squeaky chair.

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Oh see, I even shook it when I grabbed it and it didn't squeak, so I thought I had the right one.

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Well, we'll see what happens.

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All right, keep an ear out for that, anyways.

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So we got a very large beer.

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Well, yours is 25 ounces 25 ounces.

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Because Budweiser likes to try and pad their numbers by adding even just an ounce to their tall boy.

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Not tall boys, tall boys are 16 ounce but to their cans, so every ounce counts.

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Well, yeah.

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Do you know where your beer is, what state it's from?

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So it looks like it could be from Hawaii.

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So it's called Kona Big Wave Liquid Aloha.

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It is from Hawaii Go me.

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Look at you go.

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I know, let's see.

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This says Kona Brewing Company Fairfield, california, fort Collins, colorado, catersville, georgia, merrimack, new Hampshire, portsmouth, new Hampshire and Portland, oregon.

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No mention of Hawaii.

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Do you want to know why?

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Because what Budweiser likes to do is come in and buy breweries and then fuck them up by not letting them produce where they're originally from.

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But it's originally from Hawaii and it's in everywhere else.

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But hawaii.

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So that's just like coors light, it was they.

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If you ever see like a commercial or advertisement for it, it's gonna say born in the rockies oh, it was born there but it's produced at all the molson coor breweries.

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Basically the only Coors, actual Coors named beer that's produced only in Colorado is Coors Banquet, because they use Rocky Mountain water.

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Oh yeah, fancy.

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That's the only one that's actually still brewed there.

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That's just like for the longest time.

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Do you remember old commercials for Fosters?

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By chance it was Australian.

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Australian Fulbio yeah, yeah, yeah, it was made in canada and texas wow yeah.

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So you know, maybe not too australian psych jk, but uh, yes, what do you have?

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I have a foggy geezer from war pigs brewing which I don't remember where they're from.

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Foggy geezer yeah, it's a hazy India pale ale.

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Where are you?

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So is it going to taste like?

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it's like you yeah.

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You foggy geezer you well, I'm old and my brain's foggy, so it's fitting.

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It fits.

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It's from Indiana, munster, indiana, oh, usa.

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So I've seen this before.

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I've never had it, but mine's 7.3.

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It's a pale ale.

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It's a hazy IPA.

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Oh, hazy India pale.

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Ale yeah, mine is 4.4%, ooh.

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Good thing I but I got a big one.

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Yeah, good thing, I have 5.8 ounces less than you.

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There we go, cheers, cheers.

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Okay, I don't I don't know what that aftertaste is like ocean waves yeah, it must be the ocean salt I heard, if you actually put your ear up to the can, you can hear the ocean.

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Should I try?

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I mean you have headphones on.

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It might be difficult okay, let me take the headphones off and tilt the beer towards my ear.

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See if that works you're the only person that, if you actually did that, I could see pouring beer in their ear.

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Shut up, am I wrong?

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I have a question for you, okay what's your question for me?

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Did you ever grow up with?

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the no?

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No, I didn't.

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Yeah, you're right, you didn't grow up.

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What am I saying?

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sorry, continue um, did you ever do mayday growing up?

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Like like may 1st, go off to like your neighbors and drop baskets, offering the doorbell and no, I just always knew mayday.

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It was like you're crashing, so no, mayday, mayday abort abort no, I I wonder where that came from, mayday there there's a, there's something behind it.

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I don't recall what it is stay tuned for a future episode maybe I'll reach reach out to my military friend, he knows things.

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Yeah, I'll be like hey Q, what's the origin of May Day?

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Yeah.

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But no, I didn't know that was a thing to be honest.

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I can kind of tell you what the origin of May Day is in my story.

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Okay.

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Oh, by the way.

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Yes.

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I did have neighbors in Nebraska.

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You did yeah.

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They had a much prettier lawn than we did.

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How many kernels did they have on them?

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Nothing Go ahead.

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What.

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Kernels of corn, because that's what your neighbors was, just cornfield, jesus.

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So weird, I know.

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No, I lived in town.

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Oh so I lived in Elkhorn at this time, which is kind of like an offshoot of Omaha Right, and we had some neighbors who were I think there were two boys older than us, okay, but we always had a really good time with the younger son.

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Sure, we would play hockey in his garage and stuff, and they always had a really pretty lawn, okay.

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And they would get recognized for their lawn.

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Oh wow, yeah, I, I should call them find out what we can do for ours.

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Um, oh, there's no, there's no curving back with my lawn.

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No, no, no, he's, he's, nathan's gonna try I know, I know god bless his heart, I know he tries so hard.

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Yeah, anyways, my lawn is not pretty, no, anyway.

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And I remember specifically one occasion where I think I don't know if my mom was with me or if it was just my sister, but we, what is it?

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Ring in ditch or something.

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Ding dong ditch.

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Ding dong ditch.

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Yeah, so we had Maybaskets of some kind and ding dong ditch.

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Yeah, so I, we had may baskets of some kind and ding dong ditch, but because we were neighbors, we ran across their yard into our yard and they saw us through their basement window because it was a finished basement and it was like one of the split levels, so it wasn't like so deep underground.

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Yeah, okay, so they're like yep there's kate and kelly well done yeah anyway.

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So, um, we're gonna head to chicago oh, another illinois, story I know you love those.

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Why do you keep doing that?

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Because you love illinois, didn't?

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I say I want more didn't I say I want more uplifting stories.

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Sorry, I couldn't resist that one that is not this one um, oh no so we're gonna go to chicago at the time of the industrial revolution okay so, if you recall, during whatever you've learned from the industrial revolution there was, the workers had really long hours, really low wages, um, workers often worked 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week, like no overtime pay or very little anyway, right, um, and wages were pretty low, barely enough to cover basic necessities.

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That was just basically what they expected of their employees at that time, yeah, until they really kind of formed the five day work week.

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Yeah.

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Whatever?

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So factories were often poorly ventilated.

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They were overcrowded and filled with hazardous machinery.

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Workers faced um injuries and sometimes even death.

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Well, because of these situations.

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As we learned in the, the radium girls, there was no osha at the time you're talking about because that appeared around them, so yeah, that was the 1920s yeah, like late 20s was it something like that yeah.

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Um then they had child labor.

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Child as young as six or seven would work in factories along adults could you imagine putting xavier in one of those?

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no, no, not even like remotely.

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I can't even, wouldn't even be able to fathom that I know he'd be like.

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How do I read the instructions to?

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this machine because he can't read exactly.

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He's learning.

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He's learning, he's doing really well but yeah, I couldn't imagine putting my six-year-old into a factory like that.

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That's wild, yeah there was also an influx of immigrants from europe and other places that had a large pool of cheap labor, yep, and that led to a lot of ethnic tensions and competition for jobs.

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Okay, and then um around, this time to improve working conditions and wages, workers form started forming unions oh, okay yeah, so there was the knights of labor and the american Federation of Labor, and these unions pretty much put on strikes and protests to demand better treatment in their workplace.

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Makes sense.

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Were there unions prior to this, or is this like when unions started?

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It was prior.

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They were around prior, I think in the 1800s, but they were getting traction because of how bad everything was.

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That makes sense, yeah, okay.

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So, um, Chicago really took off as a major industrial center back then.

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Um, if you recall, Chicago had like a great fire and everything like burned to the ground and like a couple, like a mile, I think miles radius or something we actually did, a practice episode on the great Chicago fire.

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We did.

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Uh, you don't want to hear it folks.

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I think one of our first ones it was it was definitely early on, yeah, so you know so Chicago wasn't that that big before the fire?

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But but after the fire they put their heart and soul into rebuilding chicago and not out of wood, not out of wood and they, they shot up in, pop in population like super, super fast because of the fire yeah, because if I remember I wasn't it like one of the fastest growing cities, partly in part because of that.

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Yeah yeah, um so in chicago there's a lot of german immigrants and a lot of bohemian immigrants bohemian really so like czechoslovakia, that kind of area right okay, um, they were working For $1.50 a day.

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Oh, my word.

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A day.

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Wow, that's.

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That's less than it's less than $47.

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So the inflation calculator only goes back to 1914.

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Right.

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Because there's no, not a lot of data before that, so probably less than $47 in 1914 a day.

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So if you got paid $1.50 a day, did a female get paid a dollar?

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I don't know.

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Sorry, no, but you're not wrong.

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No, I know.

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So workers put in.

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They were putting in some serious time.

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For a buck fifty.

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That's just fucking wild.

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They were doing buck 50.

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That's they were doing 60 plus hours a week, six days a week and no matter.

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And then?

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They're all going to church on sunday right, no matter what, and that's the only reason why they had sunday's office is because you know it was way more religious back then it's like all right, you can not work this day so you can go pray and all that stuff.

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But isn't that just wild that, no matter you worked one hour, you work 12 hours, you're getting paid a buck 50.

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Trust me, there wasn't many people working one hour, yeah.

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Yeah, it's more towards the 12.

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That's crazy so naturally, workers wanted to organize, demand better conditions, but the bosses they weren't having it well, because that cuts into their bottom line?

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Yeah, I don't think we're going to do that.

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Yeah, Is that a direct quote?

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Can you file those TPS reports?

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Yeah, so the bosses would fire anyone who would join a union or who wanted to join a union.

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Right, they locked workers out of their jobs and they would hire scabs to take their place are they really ugly?

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a scab is a worker who crosses a picket line yep and continues to work during a strike.

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Which did you know that?

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I've heard that I've not heard that I?

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I wouldn't if you asked me straight out.

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I probably got it wrong.

00:15:28.326 --> 00:15:44.091
But now that you mention it, I do remember that um which because a lot of people like if you ever seen that they would do a tv show and show somebody yeah, I've seen the picket line yelling scab oh yeah, I've ever seen that well as you know.

00:15:44.131 --> 00:16:00.562
This was like betraying your fellow workers well, yeah, because they're supposed to be togetherness and, like in this, together to try and force the, the bosses to force their hand, yeah change what they're doing, and some people, unfortunately, though they still had to work.

00:16:00.562 --> 00:16:09.253
Yeah, because they couldn't afford not to get that dollar 50 for the day I know, so it's just it's terrible so bosses also played dirty tricks.

00:16:09.953 --> 00:16:30.570
They liked using spies to snoop on workers, oh dear, and even tries they tried to stir up trouble between the different ethnic groups to try to get workers to like stick together so like hey, those italians over there were making fun of the irish, right, right, yeah, right so, um, they had like big newspapers back then.

00:16:30.791 --> 00:16:44.873
I mean, that was their reading material, that was their news um like larger size or sorry, larger circulation oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, gotcha, gotcha so they, the newspapers actually sided with the bosses.

00:16:44.873 --> 00:16:46.859
Well, yeah, because they made more money from them.

00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:51.152
Yes, so everything in the newspaper was always anti-union.

00:16:52.182 --> 00:16:53.989
So wait, you're saying the media was biased.

00:16:54.260 --> 00:16:56.148
The media was in fact biased.

00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:57.626
I've never heard that before.

00:16:58.039 --> 00:17:08.368
But there were some newspapers who were run by and for the workers Sure, and they were the ones fighting for for the workers Sure, and they were the ones fighting for workers' rights, nice.

00:17:08.368 --> 00:17:13.637
So things got pretty tense in the mid-1880s when the economy tanked.

00:17:13.637 --> 00:17:19.086
Yep, you had these like socialists and anti nope, antichrist.

00:17:19.748 --> 00:17:21.451
Antichrist Anarchist.

00:17:21.611 --> 00:17:21.750
Wow.

00:17:26.821 --> 00:17:27.950
That was fantastic Antichrist Anarchist.

00:17:27.970 --> 00:17:29.440
Wow, that was fantastic Antichrist Well done.

00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:51.377
You had socialists and anarchist groups and they were kind of popping up everywhere and antichrist the antichrist and the Knights of Labor, which was pretty mainstream at this point, focused on things like the eight-hour workday, was pretty mainstream at this point, focused on things like the eight hour work day, and they saw a huge boom in membership, going from 70 000 to over 700 000 in just a couple of years.

00:17:51.377 --> 00:18:05.273
Wow, yeah, so chicago there was a strong anarchist movement sorry, this is great oh geez, english is hard.

00:18:05.494 --> 00:18:07.636
English is hard, um.

00:18:07.636 --> 00:18:28.199
So they were made up mostly of immigrants and they had this newspaper called arbeiter seitzung oh don't ask me, don't ask me, I'm not gonna no, please repeat once arbeiter seitziten something like that wow, that was great okay I have german heritage.

00:18:28.199 --> 00:18:40.641
You're welcome, so do I, so they were pretty fired up, um, some of them even believed in using violence, attacking the police and taking over factories to start a revolution see, I feel like that's actually not that's not helpful.

00:18:40.801 --> 00:18:43.404
No, it's really not helpful, it's actually kind of counterproductive.

00:18:43.404 --> 00:18:43.806
It is.

00:18:44.547 --> 00:18:49.393
I get where they're coming from, but not the smartest option.

00:18:49.453 --> 00:18:53.788
I guess, yeah, yeah, either way, it wouldn't have been my first choice Not so much.

00:18:53.788 --> 00:19:04.266
But in 1884, labor unions across the country decided that May 1st 1886, would be the day they demanded an eight-hour workday.

00:19:04.266 --> 00:19:05.609
Okay, okay, okay.

00:19:05.630 --> 00:19:06.250
So that's May Day.

00:19:06.412 --> 00:19:06.632
Yep.

00:19:06.632 --> 00:19:13.053
So as May 1st got closer, unions started gearing up for the massive strike.

00:19:13.053 --> 00:19:21.864
So on that day, thousands, even maybe half a million workers across the country oh so not just Chicago.

00:19:21.884 --> 00:19:22.708
Nope, not just Chicago.

00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:27.181
They all walked off the job and held rallies On May 1st.

00:19:27.181 --> 00:19:39.536
On May 1st, on may 1st 1886, gotcha okay, um, and they even had a special song called the eight hour um, with lyrics eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will that's.

00:19:39.635 --> 00:19:41.260
I mean yeah, 24 makes sense.

00:19:41.421 --> 00:19:45.852
Yes, okay so chicago was kind of the epicenter of the whole thing.

00:19:45.852 --> 00:19:50.794
They had about 30,000 to 40,000 workers there on strike, wow.

00:19:50.794 --> 00:19:54.988
And then tons of people were out marching and protesting.

00:19:55.288 --> 00:19:55.528
Okay.

00:19:56.250 --> 00:19:59.538
So things are going well until.

00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.194
May 3rd oh geez, Only a couple of days later.

00:20:04.510 --> 00:20:12.865
They went to the McCormick factory, which was they manufactured agricultural machinery at this McCormick factory.

00:20:12.865 --> 00:20:17.922
So the general strike happening here had many had mainly remained nonviolent.

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Right.

00:20:18.383 --> 00:20:23.519
However, workers surged to the gates to confront strike breakers.

00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:26.463
Okay, or scabs, scabs, um.

00:20:26.463 --> 00:20:38.141
When the end of the workday bell sounded, so, like people were coming out of the factory at the end of the workday and the the uh strikers were essentially like confronting these people.

00:20:38.250 --> 00:20:39.496
Let's fuck these bitches up yeah.

00:20:39.496 --> 00:20:50.771
So they were picking at the scabs, kind of yeah on the scabs, yeah huh, we're not supposed to do that so a guy by the name of august spees.

00:20:51.333 --> 00:20:57.019
August spees it's spelled like spies, oh okay, but it's pronounced spees.

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:59.483
He was a German anarchist.

00:21:00.325 --> 00:21:01.086
Not an anarchist.

00:21:01.550 --> 00:21:03.217
And a labor activist.

00:21:03.237 --> 00:21:03.578
Okay.

00:21:03.690 --> 00:21:06.660
He was also a newspaper editor, okay.

00:21:06.660 --> 00:21:15.703
So August Spees was kind of in charge of this McCormick factory strike.

00:21:16.005 --> 00:21:16.144
Okay.

00:21:16.450 --> 00:21:20.272
So when these workers were coming out after the end of the day bell?

00:21:20.272 --> 00:21:26.897
So when these workers were coming out after the end of the day bell and these workers and these strikers were kind of getting at it to each other.

00:21:26.958 --> 00:21:27.778
Confronting each other.

00:21:27.798 --> 00:21:28.598
Confronting each other.

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Speeves was like no, we need to calm down, we need to calm the F down.

00:21:32.182 --> 00:21:36.884
The police at that time started firing into the crowd.

00:21:36.884 --> 00:21:39.007
Why, why would they do that?

00:21:43.951 --> 00:21:45.093
Two McCormick workers were killed.

00:21:45.093 --> 00:21:45.673
Oh shit, shit.

00:21:45.673 --> 00:21:47.778
That doesn't sound like calming down at all no taylor swift would be pissed.

00:21:47.798 --> 00:21:50.752
Spees later testified, quote I was very indignant.

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I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight hour movement end, quote.

00:22:00.394 --> 00:22:07.039
Wow, so pissed as hell about this police violence, rightly so.

00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:11.463
Local anarchists quickly printed and distributed flyers.

00:22:11.463 --> 00:22:22.063
So the the the little strike was over, right yeah, they printed and distributed flyers calling for a rally the following day at Haymarket Square.

00:22:22.711 --> 00:22:25.536
On May, the 4th May the 4th be with you.

00:22:25.536 --> 00:22:26.775
Yay, Star Wars Day.

00:22:27.109 --> 00:22:27.631
Which was?

00:22:27.631 --> 00:22:34.804
It was a commercial center near the corner of Randolph Street and Desplanton Street, for those who know where that is.

00:22:34.930 --> 00:22:37.115
How the hell did they get that out within a day?

00:22:37.758 --> 00:22:38.358
Lots of people.

00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:44.961
Jesus, no kidding, because I mean it's not like they said go to the computer and print this off but get this.

00:22:45.061 --> 00:22:48.712
Those flyers were printed both in english and in german, jesus.

00:22:48.712 --> 00:22:58.991
Like half of it was english and the bottom half was german so it was just one flyer, okay um, but they stated that the police had murdered the strikers on behalf of business interests.

00:22:58.991 --> 00:23:01.651
Okay, and they urged the workers to seek justice.

00:23:01.651 --> 00:23:09.093
Well, the flyers contained the words, quote working men, arm yourselves and appear in full force, end quote.

00:23:09.333 --> 00:23:12.638
That seemed to be bad, yes exactly.

00:23:12.739 --> 00:23:25.345
So Spee sees this line and he's like I am not going to speak or attend this rally, or even support this rally unless these words arm yourself yeah.

00:23:25.345 --> 00:23:28.539
Unless these words are removed from the flyer.

00:23:28.789 --> 00:23:32.460
Yeah, because people are going to take it literally and be like I'm going to go home and get my gun.

00:23:32.601 --> 00:23:39.742
Yes, so another few hundred flyers were sent out, but of course not everybody's going to get these flyers, these new flyers?

00:23:39.762 --> 00:23:40.044
Of course not.

00:23:40.044 --> 00:23:42.813
Or they get these flyers, these new flyers, of course not, or they've already read the original.

00:23:42.813 --> 00:24:02.505
More than 20 000 copies were distributed, holy shit isn't that crazy I mean that's just wild that they got that many out it's like spread, like wildfowl it's like the chicago fire over again so the rally itself um started peacefully on May 4th at Haymarket Square Star Wars Day.

00:24:02.849 --> 00:24:04.477
It was actually raining that day as well.

00:24:04.477 --> 00:24:15.460
So Spies, Albert Parsons and Reverend Fieldin spoke at the crowd and that was probably somewhere between 600 and 3,000 people.

00:24:15.460 --> 00:24:17.758
That's a big difference, but that's the numbers I add.

00:24:18.770 --> 00:24:19.675
That's quite a difference.

00:24:20.451 --> 00:24:22.917
And then there was a big police presence watching the whole thing.

00:24:22.917 --> 00:24:24.501
Well, sure so?

00:24:24.501 --> 00:24:38.788
Uh spees quotes as saying quote there seems to prevail the opinion in some quarters that this meeting has been called to inaugurate a riot, hence these warlike preparations on the part of so-called law and order.

00:24:38.788 --> 00:24:43.900
However, let me tell you at the beginning that this meeting has not been called for any such purpose.

00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:52.413
The object of this meeting is to explain the general situation of the eight-hour movement and to throw light upon various incidents in connection with it.

00:24:52.413 --> 00:24:52.935
End quote.

00:24:53.116 --> 00:24:53.417
All right.

00:24:53.790 --> 00:24:55.529
All right, so he's like I do not advocate.

00:24:55.711 --> 00:24:58.098
He's trying to defuse it from the get-go.

00:24:58.159 --> 00:25:06.017
Yeah, so it doesn't escalate to something bad.

00:25:06.017 --> 00:25:10.383
Yes, so after Spies spoke Albert Parsons, who was a.

00:25:10.383 --> 00:25:12.726
He ran a radical newspaper called the Alarm.

00:25:12.726 --> 00:25:14.997
He then started to address the crowd.

00:25:15.017 --> 00:25:15.659
Okay.

00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:18.038
Did he contradict what Spies just said?

00:25:18.057 --> 00:25:25.423
No, so things are still fairly calm at this point and the mayor even showed up to check things out, but then he left.

00:25:25.423 --> 00:25:26.026
He left early.

00:25:26.026 --> 00:25:28.373
He's like all right, this is the thing that's happening.

00:25:28.373 --> 00:25:28.914
Go guys.

00:25:28.954 --> 00:25:33.053
You know I'm leaving, everything's good gotta get home to the wife's making a stew.

00:25:33.053 --> 00:25:34.515
Oh that sounds lovely.

00:25:34.634 --> 00:25:56.599
That does actually sound pretty good um finally reverend fielden stepped up, and he was a socialist and anarchist preacher oh dear he gave a short speech, speech of like 10 minutes or so, whereas the other two were like an hour or something oh, wow, okay yeah, I don't know how you can talk that much, but whatever well, I mean, I mean I'm doing it right now, but whatever so.

00:25:56.599 --> 00:26:00.213
So by this time many of the crowd had already left, as the weather was actually getting worse.

00:26:00.213 --> 00:26:00.934
That day.

00:26:01.155 --> 00:26:05.202
Sure, so now here's where the stories start to differ.

00:26:05.202 --> 00:26:07.371
Oh okay.

00:26:07.371 --> 00:26:14.964
The New York Times said Fieldin went on a rant for 20 minutes, getting more and more wild and violent.

00:26:15.391 --> 00:26:17.336
Like he was getting more wild and violent.

00:26:17.356 --> 00:26:22.991
Yeah, he was heated, getting more wild and violent.

00:26:22.991 --> 00:26:33.115
Yeah, he was heated, so another article in the times calls the strikers a mob and blamed the whole thing on the famous anarchist named johan most, who wasn't even in chicago at this time so how can you blame him?

00:26:33.115 --> 00:26:41.801
Exactly, oh it gets worse, oh dear so just as fielden was wrapping up, a bunch of cops marched into the square and ordered everyone to leave.

00:26:42.102 --> 00:26:42.423
Okay.

00:26:43.009 --> 00:26:50.020
Fieldin insisted that the meeting was peaceful, so he insisted that it's peaceful.

00:26:50.020 --> 00:26:51.390
Yeah, he's still up on the stage.

00:26:51.390 --> 00:26:53.979
He's like no, no, everything is fine, we're all calm.

00:26:54.269 --> 00:26:55.133
Yeah, we're good man.

00:26:55.153 --> 00:26:56.297
Yeah, we're good, don't.

00:26:57.171 --> 00:26:58.817
Leave us be basically.

00:27:00.271 --> 00:27:01.356
Leave my bubble alone.

00:27:03.050 --> 00:27:04.214
Leave your Buffalo alone.

00:27:04.214 --> 00:27:06.101
What bubble oh bubble.

00:27:06.711 --> 00:27:07.354
Don't burst it.

00:27:07.354 --> 00:27:08.478
Don't bust my bubble.

00:27:08.478 --> 00:27:23.601
Police inspector John Bonfield proclaimed quote I command you, addressing the speaker, in the name of the law, to desist and you, addressing the crowd, to disperse and.

00:27:24.290 --> 00:27:29.099
I still like when Xavier would come up to me and be like put your hands up in the name of the law.

00:27:29.099 --> 00:27:33.958
Sorry, this is really cute Having a five-year-old come up to you and say that it's like what?

00:27:33.958 --> 00:27:34.700
All right.

00:27:34.769 --> 00:27:36.195
What's that other phrase that he says?

00:27:36.195 --> 00:27:40.862
Oh the copper Never catch me, you never catch me.

00:27:42.990 --> 00:27:45.234
He got that for me because I just thought I'd be really cute to hear him say it is cute.

00:27:45.234 --> 00:27:46.719
I've heard him yeah, okay.

00:27:46.778 --> 00:27:51.737
So suddenly someone in the crowd threw a bomb like an actual bomb.

00:27:51.737 --> 00:28:02.344
Yes, right at the cops as they were moving in oh, jesus it exploded, killing one officer matthias deegan, oh wow and wounded a bunch of others sure like what kind of bomb?

00:28:02.344 --> 00:28:04.294
And then all hell broke loose.

00:28:04.294 --> 00:28:07.059
Well, yeah, I mean, it was a homemade bomb like.

00:28:07.760 --> 00:28:13.240
It's like a pipe bomb, but from 1887 I mean 1886 86.

00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.442
Sorry that was a year off.

00:28:14.462 --> 00:28:19.435
That's pretty good gunfire erupted, of course, because not everybody got the second fly.

00:28:19.896 --> 00:28:21.501
Because not everyone brought their bombs.

00:28:22.733 --> 00:28:28.711
And it's actually still unclear to this day who started it and even who threw the bomb Right.

00:28:28.711 --> 00:28:31.936
Yeah, we weren't sure Cops or protesters, we don't know.

00:28:32.109 --> 00:28:35.644
Well, I mean, I don't think the cops would throw the bomb at themselves and blow themselves up.

00:28:35.807 --> 00:28:36.692
I highly doubt that.

00:28:37.153 --> 00:28:47.294
Unless the dude dropped it and was like fuck and blew up doubt that, unless dude dropped him like fuck blew up, dropped it out of his holster.

00:28:47.314 --> 00:28:48.296
Yeah, my bad, oh I thought I had the safety on shit.

00:28:48.296 --> 00:28:55.136
So, to make things worse, the police started shooting each other in the confusion oh, did they not recognize the uniform?

00:28:55.877 --> 00:29:01.135
I mean, how do you oh man, he must have stole this outfit from somebody shoot him like?

00:29:01.135 --> 00:29:06.239
How the fuck do you accidentally do that, cause you can't tell me that it was like super foggy out.

00:29:06.789 --> 00:29:08.778
No, but the bomb just exploded, I get that.

00:29:08.778 --> 00:29:18.278
So fire and everybody's running every which way and I don't know smoke, I don't know, would you say there was anarchy afoot.

00:29:18.278 --> 00:29:21.358
Afoot, so the square emptied out pretty quickly.

00:29:21.529 --> 00:29:23.176
Well, yeah, because no one wants to get killed.

00:29:23.217 --> 00:29:26.058
Yeah, and all the injured people just lay everywhere.

00:29:26.058 --> 00:29:31.338
In the end seven police and four workers were killed.

00:29:32.721 --> 00:29:34.044
Wow, really yes.

00:29:34.390 --> 00:29:53.720
So historians still debate exactly how many cops were killed by other cops versus their protesters, but they think that did happen that's just wild, yeah and then confusion come on and then two years later, another officer died from the injuries that he got that night.

00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:59.421
So I know I'm not sure like what happened, but somehow because of the injuries he got that night, he whatever.

00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:01.334
he managed to stay alive for two years, and then he passed whatever he sustained that night.

00:30:01.334 --> 00:30:02.818
He managed to stay alive for two years and then he passed Whatever he sustained that night.

00:30:02.818 --> 00:30:05.443
Eventually he succumbed to yeah Okay.

00:30:06.050 --> 00:30:09.019
So one of the cops there, captain Shaq, shaq, mm-hmm.

00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:13.598
He said a lot more workers were injured than the cops.

00:30:14.300 --> 00:30:14.602
Okay.

00:30:15.130 --> 00:30:18.279
So it's unknown, we just don't know.

00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:26.980
There's just not a lot of reliable sources and yeah, and multiple sources that say the same thing.

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:31.680
So the Chicago Herald called it wild carnage.

00:30:32.221 --> 00:30:32.583
Well, yeah.

00:30:32.769 --> 00:30:36.338
Saying there was probably at least 50 civilians dead or wounded.

00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:40.538
Potentially, that's just conjecture.

00:30:40.910 --> 00:30:56.512
It was also a hard number to get to because a lot of the workers who were injured were afraid to go to the hospital, fearing that they'd get arrested while they were there oh sure, I mean, I guess that makes sense, yeah so after haymarket things got a lot tougher for unions.

00:30:56.512 --> 00:30:59.376
You don't say bosses cracked down.

00:30:59.557 --> 00:31:12.395
Workers were back to those long work days, 10 hours or more buck 50 a day the german and bohemian communities, along with other immigrants and labor groups, were really under the microscope, right, yeah.

00:31:12.395 --> 00:31:22.064
So the police went on a rampage, raiding homes and offices of anyone they suspected of being an anarchist so they, if they suspected they just did?

00:31:22.130 --> 00:31:23.373
that's kind of bullshit.

00:31:23.373 --> 00:31:24.074
Yeah.

00:31:24.074 --> 00:31:28.261
So hey, man, uh joe down the road yeah, anarchist, let's go.

00:31:28.281 --> 00:31:29.510
Let's go get that fucker.

00:31:29.510 --> 00:31:30.433
It's like dude.

00:31:30.433 --> 00:31:31.135
Where's your proof?

00:31:31.135 --> 00:31:32.378
I don't have any exactly.

00:31:32.378 --> 00:31:47.109
And they arrested a ton of people and none of them had anything to do with the bombing yeah, that's bullshit, yeah so the investigation focused on the people who spoke at the rally, okay, and the arbeiter's, like on newspaper.

00:31:50.517 --> 00:31:55.267
So they accused a small group of anarchists of making the bomb that exploded.

00:31:55.267 --> 00:32:17.181
The newspapers really played up the idea that anarchists were to blame for the riot and most people believed them, of course, yeah, and the press went crazy with the story, making it seem even more dramatic than it really was, by calling it a riot, when a lot of places on the internet and historians they call it an affair, the Haymarket Affair or the Haymarket Incident.

00:32:17.201 --> 00:32:18.442
Did they have the internet back then?

00:32:20.465 --> 00:32:45.132
No, you're saying today, today just confirming so, um, things also got really ugly for the labor movement right, the wealthy, the newspapers and basically everyone else that they, that they um thought rewind the wealthy and the newspapers, um, pretty much thought that they needed a crackdown on these anarchists.

00:32:45.132 --> 00:32:55.383
So even the knights of labor and other unions, who are supposed to be on the workers side, actually distance themselves from the anarchists and condemn the violence.

00:32:55.383 --> 00:32:58.577
Well, I mean, so they're like back dragon save and face.

00:32:58.739 --> 00:33:05.383
Can you blame them, though, because if all you're like looking to do is to literally cause harm to people, to try and get your point across.

00:33:05.570 --> 00:33:06.890
We don't approve of that.

00:33:07.049 --> 00:33:14.644
No there's much better ways to do that than to cause hurt to people.

00:33:14.644 --> 00:33:16.394
I mean, that's just stupid.

00:33:17.990 --> 00:33:22.942
So a lot of the workers actually suspected the Pinkertons were involved, not the.

00:33:22.981 --> 00:33:23.583
Pinkertons.

00:33:23.869 --> 00:33:32.244
They were a detective agency hired by companies to spy on workers and break up strikes, and they weren't afraid to use violence.

00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:34.939
No, they're actually pretty well known for that.

00:33:35.250 --> 00:33:35.490
Yeah.

00:33:35.490 --> 00:33:40.403
And so a lot of the workers thought that the Pinkertons had a hand in what happened at Haymarket, right?

00:33:40.403 --> 00:33:44.401
So the police were convinced that some of the anarchists had planned the bombing.

00:33:44.401 --> 00:33:46.073
But they needed the proof, right.

00:33:46.073 --> 00:33:52.107
So they raided the offices of our biter zeigun who did they?

00:33:52.107 --> 00:33:53.852
Raid the office of the german newspaper.

00:33:53.852 --> 00:34:01.555
Thank you very much, all right that newspaper was ran by august spies oh, hey we know that guy.

00:34:01.575 --> 00:34:08.077
Yeah, they arrested him, of course, and a few others who worked there right, and then they searched for um.

00:34:08.077 --> 00:34:18.739
This guy called lewis ling lewis ling ling wasn't at the rally, but they did find bombs and bomb making paraphernalia in his home.

00:34:19.501 --> 00:34:21.222
That doesn't bode well for Ling.

00:34:21.222 --> 00:34:23.286
It doesn't Wow okay.

00:34:23.449 --> 00:34:30.422
So the police were also looking for Rudolf Schnaubelt Schnaubelt.

00:34:31.003 --> 00:34:31.824
Schnaubelt.

00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:32.994
Rudolf Schnaubelt.

00:34:33.949 --> 00:34:34.914
He's German, isn't he?

00:34:34.914 --> 00:34:35.115
Yeah?

00:34:37.132 --> 00:34:38.697
They think that he threw the bomb.

00:34:39.097 --> 00:34:41.117
Okay, why did they think that, did they say?

00:34:41.117 --> 00:34:42.791
Did you see anything that was?

00:34:42.831 --> 00:34:53.481
not part of my research um they arrested him a couple of times early on, but every time they let him go that seems like a mistake and then no, and then he disappeared.

00:34:53.481 --> 00:34:54.222
Oh weird.

00:34:54.222 --> 00:34:56.311
They think he flew to london into the ether.

00:34:56.472 --> 00:34:59.856
Oh, bye-bye, bye-bye.

00:34:59.856 --> 00:35:03.221
So how did he fly like he's not a bird?

00:35:05.164 --> 00:35:05.503
fled.

00:35:05.523 --> 00:35:17.313
He fled because flight wasn't invented for another 17 years he probably had like really bushy eyebrows, you know how do you spell the wright brother's name?

00:35:17.353 --> 00:35:17.514
r-i-g-h-t.

00:35:17.534 --> 00:35:22.001
No but all right, I know, that's how you spell it.

00:35:22.041 --> 00:35:33.260
I know um, so in all eight people were charged with murder oh wow really yes, two of them were there.

00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:41.510
Six people who were arrested for murder were not at the Haymarket.

00:35:41.771 --> 00:35:43.590
How can they fucking do that that?

00:35:43.610 --> 00:35:46.641
doesn't make any sense Stupid.

00:35:47.090 --> 00:35:48.536
Yeah, that's ridiculous.

00:35:49.070 --> 00:35:52.056
Spees and Fielden, who had been speaking at the rally.

00:35:52.056 --> 00:35:55.103
They were leaving when the bomb exploded.

00:35:55.103 --> 00:35:56.820
Oh, who had been speaking at the rally.

00:35:56.820 --> 00:35:58.672
They were leaving when the bomb exploded.

00:35:58.672 --> 00:36:04.436
A few others Adolph Fisher and Albert Parsons were at the rally earlier, but I'd left well before the bombing.

00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:05.500
Okay.

00:36:06.329 --> 00:36:22.672
Parsons actually turned himself in even though they didn't think they would have any evidence against him, but he was arrested Like he was trying to be a decent guy, like I don't know, anyway't I just okay, I'm trying to like wrap my brain around this there's no logic not at all.

00:36:22.713 --> 00:36:25.362
They're just like you know what you fit the profile.

00:36:25.362 --> 00:36:27.269
Yeah you, you fit what we want to say.

00:36:27.269 --> 00:36:30.516
So, yeah, you're arrested and we're gonna charge you for murder.

00:36:30.516 --> 00:36:31.659
So, george angle and lewis ling For murder.

00:36:32.019 --> 00:36:36.168
So George Engel and Louis Ling weren't at the rally.

00:36:36.530 --> 00:36:37.514
And they were charged.

00:36:38.710 --> 00:36:42.882
They were arrested because they were considered radical activists.

00:36:43.891 --> 00:36:47.789
So just because you were considered a radical activist, that's why they got charged with murder.

00:36:48.050 --> 00:36:53.523
And then there was this guy named Oscar Niebe, who was involved with the newspaper, but he wasn't there either.

00:36:54.349 --> 00:36:55.934
But yet, let's rest him anyways.

00:36:55.934 --> 00:36:57.360
Yep, what the fuck.

00:36:58.010 --> 00:37:04.597
So out of the eight, five were born in Germany, one was German-American and the other two were born in US and England.

00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:06.001
Weird.

00:37:06.202 --> 00:37:08.516
Yeah, so they had a trial.

00:37:08.516 --> 00:37:11.626
It started in June 1886.

00:37:11.646 --> 00:37:12.070
So real quick.

00:37:12.070 --> 00:37:15.460
Yeah, that was a quick May 4th to June yeah.

00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:16.759
That's a quick turnaround.

00:37:16.780 --> 00:37:18.452
Yeah, and it dragged on for weeks.

00:37:18.452 --> 00:37:22.733
The atmosphere was met with extreme prejudice against the defendants.

00:37:22.733 --> 00:37:25.414
Okay, the judge, judge Gary.

00:37:26.130 --> 00:37:27.014
Judge Gary.

00:37:27.094 --> 00:37:29.528
Was also very biased of them.

00:37:30.032 --> 00:37:30.835
That was his first name.

00:37:30.835 --> 00:37:31.940
They just called him Judge Gary.

00:37:33.867 --> 00:37:40.418
He ruled in favor of the prosecution all the time and didn't even try to keep things fair how the fuck is he a judge?

00:37:40.418 --> 00:37:44.152
What a dick and picking the jury was a nightmare.

00:37:44.152 --> 00:37:54.018
It took weeks and they went through hundreds of people, and anyone who was in a union or even just sympathetic to socialism was automatically dismissed.

00:37:54.018 --> 00:37:59.494
Sure, and at one point the judge even let the bailiff pick the jurors, and he was also biased.

00:37:59.494 --> 00:38:01.059
What Yep?

00:38:01.349 --> 00:38:04.059
Why the hell would you let the bailiff fucking pick the jury?

00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:07.530
That's just ridiculous, okay.

00:38:08.192 --> 00:38:14.693
So the prosecution argued that even though the defendants didn't throw the bomb, they were still responsible as conspirators.

00:38:14.693 --> 00:38:17.599
Oh my word, defendants didn't throw the bomb, they were still responsible as conspirators.

00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:17.818
Oh my word.

00:38:17.818 --> 00:38:26.306
In all, 118 people, including 54 members of the Chicago Police Department, took the stand.

00:38:27.336 --> 00:38:28.369
Jesus Christ, that's a lot.

00:38:28.530 --> 00:38:35.130
Yeah, albert Parson's brother even claimed the Pinkertons might have been involved, which a lot of the strikers believed.

00:38:35.512 --> 00:38:35.773
Right.

00:38:36.494 --> 00:38:38.797
But they didn't do anything about the Pinkertons.

00:38:39.179 --> 00:38:42.123
Well, no, because they can just arrest whoever else they want and blame them for it.

00:38:47.409 --> 00:38:51.789
The police did some tests on the bomb fragments that hit the cops and they found that the metal used in the bomb matched the metal in the bombs found at Ling's place Right.

00:38:51.789 --> 00:39:02.655
So Captain Shaq, the police chief, figured that these anarchists had been experimenting with bombs for a long time and they were trying to like perfect it before they used it.

00:39:02.655 --> 00:39:08.554
So then, at the very last minute, the court realized they forgot to give the jury instructions about manslaughter.

00:39:08.735 --> 00:39:10.418
They forgot Yep.

00:39:10.418 --> 00:39:11.782
Oh hey, by the way.

00:39:12.210 --> 00:39:18.737
So they brought the jury back in, gave them the missing information and, of course, that's the last thing that they hear.

00:39:18.929 --> 00:39:20.536
Well, yeah, it's going to stick in their mind.

00:39:21.157 --> 00:39:23.675
Yeah, and of course they found all eight defendants guilty.

00:39:24.177 --> 00:39:25.139
Wow, really.

00:39:25.260 --> 00:39:25.481
Yes.

00:39:26.490 --> 00:39:28.699
That's our justice system at work there, folks.

00:39:29.389 --> 00:39:31.210
Before sentencing yeah.

00:39:31.210 --> 00:39:37.034
Nebe basically called out Captain Shaq saying that the police were just as bad as the anarchists.

00:39:37.353 --> 00:39:37.634
Right.

00:39:38.675 --> 00:39:44.717
But Judge Gary sentenced seven of them to death by hanging and Nibi to 15 years in prison.

00:39:45.018 --> 00:39:46.539
Why did he only get 15 years?

00:39:47.619 --> 00:39:51.001
He was the one let's see here.

00:39:51.001 --> 00:39:56.264
He was only involved in the newspaper, but still an anarchist, so I don't know.

00:39:57.184 --> 00:39:59.346
That was not part of my research.

00:40:00.007 --> 00:40:02.628
So people were furious, rightly so yeah.

00:40:02.628 --> 00:40:06.599
Labor unions and workers all of the world protested.

00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:07.121
Right.

00:40:07.710 --> 00:40:18.777
But the newspapers painted the defendants as bloodthirsty monsters, dangerous foreigners, and Captain Shaq even wrote a book out about it, which just fueled the fear and hatred.

00:40:18.777 --> 00:40:21.318
So it really divided everybody.

00:40:21.489 --> 00:40:26.577
Sounds like Captain Shaq is just trying to benefit from the situation that he fucking created yeah.

00:40:27.130 --> 00:40:31.719
And people were scared of these radical workers and there was a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment then.

00:40:33.090 --> 00:40:40.097
Understandably so, because they were painted in such a terrible light that they did all this shit even though they had no actual proof.

00:40:40.659 --> 00:41:01.534
But all right so the case was appealed in 1887 to the supreme court of illinois, then to the united states supreme court, where the defendants were represented by john randolph tucker, roger Atkinson, pryor General Benjamin F Butler and William P Black.

00:41:01.730 --> 00:41:03.478
What does the F mean in F Butler?

00:41:04.349 --> 00:41:04.391
F.

00:41:04.391 --> 00:41:06.657
His middle initial is F.

00:41:06.657 --> 00:41:07.659
I know what does it mean?

00:41:07.659 --> 00:41:08.422
I don't know.

00:41:08.932 --> 00:41:09.929
That wasn't part of your research.

00:41:09.969 --> 00:41:11.230
That wasn't part of my research.

00:41:11.230 --> 00:41:13.237
That was the last thing on my mind.

00:41:13.237 --> 00:41:16.418
The petition for the appeal was denied.

00:41:17.170 --> 00:41:17.740
Of course it was.

00:41:17.822 --> 00:41:28.577
So, after all the appeals were done, it was up to Governor Oglesby, oglesby, oglesby, governor Oglesby, to decide whether to let these guys live or not.

00:41:28.777 --> 00:41:29.539
Oh, that's nice of him.

00:41:30.289 --> 00:41:35.719
Tons of people wrote letters begging him to spare their lives, but the newspapers were mostly calling for them to be hanged.

00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:36.461
Of course they were.

00:41:36.461 --> 00:41:39.599
Governor Oglesby was really conflicted.

00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:48.644
He remembered what it was like to be an abolitionist and he realized that if the laws were applied strictly he and other abolitionists could have been hanged too.

00:41:48.644 --> 00:41:54.702
So in the end he said he'd only pardon those who asked for mercy.

00:41:56.293 --> 00:42:02.659
So as long as you asked, he'd pardon it, that's four of them refused, saying that they cause.

00:42:02.659 --> 00:42:10.717
They were like I'm innocent, I'm not going to say I'm not going to cause, basically they're giving up their they're saying they're guilty without saying they're guilty.

00:42:10.717 --> 00:42:11.338
Okay, I see.

00:42:12.250 --> 00:42:17.820
So four of them were like no, i'm'm not gonna ask for forgiveness because I didn't do anything right, no, I, I mean I can't.

00:42:17.820 --> 00:42:30.061
I don't blame him, because you know, hey, I'm fucking innocent man so fieldin and schwab asked for mercy, and their sentences were reduced to life in prison oh, so they still got to go to prison yeah, that sucks.

00:42:30.061 --> 00:42:36.099
Before his execution, ling killed himself in his cell using a smuggled bomb.

00:42:36.579 --> 00:42:39.739
Oh, how the hell do you smuggle a bomb into jail man?

00:42:41.192 --> 00:42:42.155
We have a couple holes.

00:42:45.851 --> 00:42:46.556
I mean, I guess.

00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:48.273
Unavailable orifices.

00:42:49.177 --> 00:42:50.139
There it is.

00:42:50.951 --> 00:42:55.202
The next day, four of the men Engle, fisher, parsons and Spies were hanged.

00:42:55.550 --> 00:42:56.969
Wow that's just wild.

00:42:57.190 --> 00:43:01.639
They were all dressed in white and they sang the French national anthem, the Marseillaise.

00:43:02.300 --> 00:43:02.581
Why.

00:43:02.581 --> 00:43:05.253
I don't know Weren't they like mostly.

00:43:05.295 --> 00:43:05.695
German.

00:43:06.751 --> 00:43:07.713
Why are they singing French?

00:43:07.713 --> 00:43:08.534
Oui, oui.

00:43:09.818 --> 00:43:10.900
Oh, oh.

00:43:10.900 --> 00:43:12.302
Why is it not included?

00:43:12.302 --> 00:43:13.634
That's important of my research.

00:43:13.673 --> 00:43:15.197
I all of a sudden want some Ratatouille.

00:43:15.197 --> 00:43:16.320
Wait, that's a movie.

00:43:17.150 --> 00:43:23.202
Lucy Parsons, Albert Parsons' wife, tried to see him one last time, but she was arrested and searched for bombs.

00:43:23.202 --> 00:43:24.483
Oh, Jesus Christ, yeah.

00:43:24.483 --> 00:43:33.684
So before they were hanged, Spees shouted something about their silence being more powerful than the voices trying to silence them.

00:43:34.045 --> 00:43:34.184
Okay.

00:43:36.889 --> 00:43:47.980
Engle and Fisher yelled hurrah for anarchism right before they died and and parsons tried to say something too, but they dropped the trap door before you could finish what a dick move.

00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:51.896
Yeah it's like hanging up the phone when someone's trying to say goodbye.

00:43:51.896 --> 00:43:52.838
Have a great night.

00:43:52.938 --> 00:43:55.465
I love you and it's like goodbye.

00:43:55.465 --> 00:43:57.731
Oh, were you saying something?

00:43:58.632 --> 00:44:05.253
my apologies and witnesses said like these were not quick deaths no, I'm sure they wriggled and riled all.

00:44:05.253 --> 00:44:13.318
Yeah the men they struggled for a while before they finally died and it was pretty gruesome and a lot of people were shaken by it all right, so I can imagine.

00:44:13.318 --> 00:44:21.161
So the thing is they never caught the person who threw the bomb, because they don't know who actually threw the bomb yeah, I.

00:44:21.382 --> 00:44:31.474
I mean, at that point you should kill all those cops that were there too how can you convict someone for a conspiracy when you don't know who actually did it?

00:44:31.474 --> 00:44:43.829
Right, right, historians think that Rudolph Schaubelt, who was Michael Schwab's brother-in-law, was probably the one who threw the bomb.

00:44:43.829 --> 00:44:51.603
Okay, a lot of people, especially in the labor movement, thought that the trial was a total sham and a real miscarriage of justice.

00:44:51.603 --> 00:45:01.675
Clearly carriage of justice, clearly and years later governor john peter all got alt geld.

00:45:01.675 --> 00:45:02.518
Who was an immigrant himself?

00:45:02.538 --> 00:45:03.059
pardoned three of the men.

00:45:03.079 --> 00:45:17.304
Good thing they were dead already some of them were sent to life in prison, though, oh so he pardoned some of the ones that were in prison okay I got you so he said the trial was unfair, the jury biased and there was no proof linking the defendants to the bombing.

00:45:17.469 --> 00:45:19.438
No, it was a complete sham of a fucking thing.

00:45:19.650 --> 00:45:24.943
Yeah, and he also criticized the city for letting the Pinkertons get away with violence against workers, right?

00:45:24.943 --> 00:45:30.443
So this really hurt the governor politically, and he lost the next election.

00:45:30.443 --> 00:45:37.856
Well, you know, good for him, though, for doing the right fucking thing, even though he lost the next election.

00:45:37.856 --> 00:45:47.963
Historians mostly agree that the Haymarket trial was a miscarriage of justice, and they say that the prosecution focused on the defendant's speeches and writings, even though they didn't have any real proof about who actually threw the bomb.

00:45:47.963 --> 00:46:04.054
Right, and obviously the judge was clearly biased, and the jury and everyone was just president prejudice against the defendants from the start not only was the judge biased, he was a complete piece of shit yeah because he clearly didn't fucking care about actual justice.

00:46:04.396 --> 00:46:08.476
He just wanted a paycheck and was like I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want, because he didn't listen to anything.

00:46:08.615 --> 00:46:18.476
No, um historian timothy mezzer cruz looked closely at the trial records and he actually argues that for the time period, the trial was actually pretty fair.

00:46:19.199 --> 00:46:20.061
What how?

00:46:20.581 --> 00:46:20.882
I don't know.

00:46:20.882 --> 00:46:35.704
Well, he says there's evidence linking the defendants to the bombing and to the anarchist groups and he also points out that back then trials relied mostly on witness testimony and not all like the fancy forensic stuff that we do today?

00:46:35.724 --> 00:46:38.358
Well, obviously, because they didn't have the forensics back then, but at the same time.

00:46:38.753 --> 00:46:44.186
But if they're writing about violence and they're writing about the bombs even though they can't prove otherwise.

00:46:44.186 --> 00:46:46.297
Like that's still some evidence.

00:46:46.813 --> 00:46:49.213
Which I get, but half those people weren't even fucking there.

00:46:49.213 --> 00:46:51.036
I know that's my point.

00:46:51.036 --> 00:46:52.190
They weren't even there.

00:46:52.210 --> 00:46:54.382
But they could be conspiring.

00:46:54.382 --> 00:46:55.601
Yes, they were conspiring, but they wrote about it.

00:46:55.621 --> 00:46:56.389
Yes, they were conspiring.

00:46:56.389 --> 00:47:01.523
You know, I thought about having a sandwich, but I didn't believe I had a sandwich, yep, fuck.

00:47:02.730 --> 00:47:14.188
So historian Nathan Fine points out that the trade union activities continued to show signs of growth and vitality, culminating later in 1886 with the establishment of the Labor Party of Chicago, culminating later in 1886 with the establishment of the Labor Party of Chicago.

00:47:16.170 --> 00:47:33.262
So he says, quote the fact is that, despite police repression, newspaper incitement to hysteria and organization of the possessing classes which followed the throwing of the bomb on May 4th, the Chicago wage earners only united their forces and stiffened their resistance.

00:47:33.262 --> 00:47:55.655
The conservative and radical central bodies there were two each of the trade unions and also the Knights of Labor, the socialists and the anarchists, the single taxers and the reformers, the native-born and the foreign-born Germans, bohemians and Scandinavians all got together for the first time on the political field in the summer, following the Haymarket Affair.

00:47:55.655 --> 00:47:56.356
Wow.

00:47:56.356 --> 00:48:18.476
So a year after Haymarket, senator Leland Stanford gave an interview where he talked about how the gap between workers and bosses was getting bigger.

00:48:18.476 --> 00:48:24.978
He even supported the idea of workers owning their own businesses, which is something that the knights of labor were promoting.

00:48:24.978 --> 00:48:35.923
So labor unions kept fighting, fighting for that eight-hour work day and in 1888, the american federal Federation of Labor, the AFL, decided to try again.

00:48:36.244 --> 00:48:41.601
Okay, setting May 1st 1890 as the date for the big strike.

00:48:41.601 --> 00:48:47.195
Oh, samuel Gompers Gompers, the head of the AFL.

00:48:47.369 --> 00:48:49.036
That's a fantastic last name.

00:48:50.211 --> 00:48:53.769
He wrote this international meeting of socialists in Paris.

00:48:53.769 --> 00:48:59.382
He told them about the AFL's plan and suggested a worldwide effort for the eight-hour day.

00:48:59.382 --> 00:49:07.469
So the socialists loved the idea and chose May 1st 1980 as its day for its international demonstration.

00:49:07.469 --> 00:49:19.246
Okay, so another reason the socialists chose May 1st was to honor the memory of the workers who died at Haymarket Right and during the strikes that happened that year okay so the first mayday was a huge success.

00:49:19.346 --> 00:49:23.480
Newspapers around the port reported on these like massive demonstrations that year.

00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:29.237
Mayday celebrations continued every year after that really in mexico.

00:49:29.318 --> 00:49:31.806
They especially remembered the hay market martyrs.

00:49:31.806 --> 00:49:37.375
In 1921, mother jones, a famous labor leader, was in Mexico for May Day.

00:49:37.375 --> 00:49:42.858
She wrote about how they celebrated the workers who were killed in Chicago in fighting for the eight-hour day.

00:49:42.858 --> 00:49:51.179
And in 1939, the New York Times reported that the May Day parade in Mexico City was a way to honor the memory of those who died in Chicago.

00:49:51.179 --> 00:49:59.835
So even though they couldn't prove any of the defendants actually threw the bomb, the prosecution tried to make it seem like they were all involved.

00:50:00.896 --> 00:50:01.318
Of course.

00:50:01.358 --> 00:50:02.119
How's that go All right?

00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:12.909
So over the years, writers and others have come up with all sorts of theories about who the real bomber might have been Right.

00:50:12.909 --> 00:50:16.391
The most likely suspect is rudolph sean belt.

00:50:16.391 --> 00:50:20.360
Yep, um, he was michael schwab's brother-in-law, the one who fled.

00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:23.434
Yeah, he was there at haymarket and fled the country.

00:50:23.434 --> 00:50:28.275
Um, police even had a witness who claimed to see him throw the bomb, but we don't know.

00:50:28.275 --> 00:50:34.173
Yeah, that's probably bullshit the men who were executed were buried in a cemetery called waldheim.

00:50:34.173 --> 00:50:37.039
Later, schwab and Nebe were buried there too.

00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:37.601
Okay.

00:50:37.740 --> 00:50:38.523
And they're all together.

00:50:39.003 --> 00:50:39.063
Aw.

00:50:39.329 --> 00:50:42.380
And there's even a special monument there for the Haymarket Martyrs.

00:50:42.380 --> 00:50:46.581
It's actually a national historic landmark now, is it really Mm-hmm?

00:50:47.351 --> 00:50:48.496
I wouldn't have guessed that, but okay.

00:50:48.757 --> 00:50:51.717
Yeah, that is the Haymarket Affair.

00:50:52.831 --> 00:50:54.318
I have never heard of that before.

00:50:54.318 --> 00:50:57.971
That was interesting.

00:50:57.971 --> 00:51:12.831
Um, obviously it was the beginning of well trying to get fair weight and not wages per se, but hours, hours and all that eight hours of work, eight hours of rest, eight hours of what we want, of what we will, yeah, yeah and um.

00:51:12.831 --> 00:51:18.362
It's funny because, like for as much as they, if they could have just got Dolly Parton, you know.

00:51:18.563 --> 00:51:19.103
You think so?

00:51:19.143 --> 00:51:20.976
Well, yeah, cause she does have power.

00:51:20.976 --> 00:51:22.293
Working nine to five.

00:51:22.313 --> 00:51:23.077
Yeah, she's got power.

00:51:23.530 --> 00:51:30.398
But it's funny how they fought so hard for that and that's not so much the case anymore Again.

00:51:30.809 --> 00:51:31.010
Yeah.

00:51:31.210 --> 00:51:46.836
You know, it's just like people get, they don't get paid enough, especially in the markets that we are in now with how expensive shit is gas and all that stuff and a lot of people need two jobs right now to hello to.

00:51:46.836 --> 00:51:59.014
But yeah, it's funny how it's kind of going back to obviously not that extreme, but it's going back that way which is really kind of sad.

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You know, like the golden age of you have a wife and a husband.

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The husband would go to work, the wife would stay home and be a homemaker raise the kids, if they had them, you know, do the cleaning, whatever you know.

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Obviously I'm thinking like the 50s and stuff.

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Right, you could afford to do that.

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You could have a house, a fucking car yeah, pay for groceries, all that one person income one person income now.

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Now you need like a household of even just two people, need like four fucking jobs to pay for everything.

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It's just wild.

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It's wild.

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Yeah, it's really unfortunate that it's going that route.

00:52:34.295 --> 00:52:39.237
Yeah, but when, when everything gets so expensive, what are you supposed to do so?

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yeah, I still want to have fun, so well, and that's the thing.

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Like I want to.

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I still want to have fun and do stuff with the kids and whatever.

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So it's like I've got to figure out how to make that money.

00:52:48.418 --> 00:52:54.074
So, and uh, it's, you know, unfortunate, but is what it?

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is so.

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It is what it is.

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You just got to roll with the punches.

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But do they have to hit every?

00:52:59.275 --> 00:53:02.559
time I feel like they don't, but they fucking do every time.

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Every time.

00:53:03.349 --> 00:53:07.286
Why is it always in the gut too Gut punch?

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All right.

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So how do you feel about your foggy geezer I?

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liked it.

00:53:11.398 --> 00:53:16.532
It was good it's whoa almost tipped the can over.

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I did finish mine.

00:53:16.893 --> 00:53:21.572
I know I get to partake a little more than you do because you're you're speaking a bit more, but, um, it was really good.

00:53:21.572 --> 00:53:22.376
I like the can.

00:53:22.376 --> 00:53:24.201
It's got it looks like.

00:53:24.201 --> 00:53:35.275
So I know you're not a huge indiana jones fan, but you've seen the movies, yes once upon a time it's been a long time since I've like watched it from start to finish.

00:53:35.315 --> 00:53:37.173
It's pretty sad actually the.

00:53:37.213 --> 00:53:51.675
The guy on the can reminds me of, like the last in the last crusade, the, the old knight who had the holy grail, and all that sure, yeah sure, all right, anyways, I'll just, I'll just stop my can reminds me of hawaii I wonder why k.

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Fucking A-Rite.

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It's in a blue can.

00:53:56.730 --> 00:53:57.172
Yeah, it is.

00:53:57.172 --> 00:53:57.735
It is pretty good.

00:53:57.735 --> 00:54:00.817
I like it, and it's not because it's sad, it's just literally the color blue.

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It's just literally.

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It's blue like the ocean.

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It's kind of like aquamarine.

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It's like sky blue.

00:54:07.117 --> 00:54:08.914
Why do you have to like, talk like that?

00:54:08.914 --> 00:54:12.780
Because we're not even talking about California Valley Girl.

00:54:12.780 --> 00:54:14.405
We're not even talking about California Valley girl.

00:54:14.405 --> 00:54:15.570
I know, we're talking about Hawaii, hawaii, hawaii.

00:54:15.929 --> 00:54:18.963
Okay, so I'm glad you enjoyed your beer.

00:54:18.963 --> 00:54:19.969
I enjoyed my beer.

00:54:19.969 --> 00:54:22.755
Good, my all 4.4 ounces, which I haven't.

00:54:22.755 --> 00:54:24.320
I don't even think I'm halfway through this yet.

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Well, but yeah, good story.

00:54:28.237 --> 00:54:28.858
Yeah, I liked it.

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That's different.

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I never heard about that before and it's unfortunate that such a miscarriage of justice happened.

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But you know it was the 1880s.

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Shit was wild.

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No, not so much I wasn't there but you probably think I was well, I suppose.

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