Studs Terkel on the Haymarket Affair
At a celebration in Chicago’s Haymarket Square honoring the 110-year anniversary of the uprising, author and journalist Studs Terkel (“Working”) speaks to the assembled crowd: “You know why you’re working 8 hours a day? Because four guys in Chicago got hanged, FOR YOU!” Starting May 1, 1886, labor unions across the United States began a […]