May 3

 

 

Four striking workers are killed, at least 200 wounded, when police attack a demonstration on Chicago’s south side at the McCormick Harvesting Machine plant. The Haymarket Massacre is to take place the following day - 1886
 
Eugene V. Debs and other leaders of the American Railway Union are jailed for six months for  contempt of court in connection with Pullman railroad car strike - 1895
 
Pete Seeger, folksinger and union activist, born in Patterson, N.Y. Among his songs: “If I Had A Hammer” and “Turn, Turn, Turn” - 1919 —Compiled and edited by David Prosten

 

 

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