In response to this unprovoked barbaric attack by the police,
the workers organised a demonstration on May 4 at the Haymarket Square.
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A temporary hospital was quickly erected at Haymarket, where volunteers frantically tried to remove
molasses from the victims' airways so they wouldn't suffocate.
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The celebration commemorates the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886,
when Chicago police shoot workers who were striking to establish the eight hour day.
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The Haymarket incident outraged people around the world and in following years,
memory of the"Haymarket martyrs" was commemorated in various May Day job actions and demonstrations.
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The events of May 3 and 4,
1886 which led to what is known as the Haymarket Affair were a direct outgrowth of the May 1 strike.