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2007, c2006., Pantheon Books Call No: 973.85 GRE Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Re-creates the events surrounding the 1886 bombing of a Chicago labor rally and the controversial trial and eventual execution of four men accused of the crime.
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2002., Enslow Publishers Call No: 345.73 FIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Headline court casesSummary Note: An account of the unfair trial of the eight men accused of conspiring to murder a policeman in the Haymarket Square riot in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
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-- Fight for an eight-hour workday2004., Juvenile, Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 973.85 BRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: America's industrial society in the 19th centurySummary Note: Provides information about labor unions, discussing their formation in the 1800s to ensure better working conditions for workers, and looks at the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, the first national union to help the working class, as well as the riot that erupted in 1886 after a clash between unions and the Chicago police.