Haymarket Martyrs--Origins of International Workers Day Pt 2

[plainlake]

Funny how this is more know in other countries than the US, This was an inspiration for labour rights. But it seems to me that this is the US version of tiananmen Square. Hushed down..

[trilobright]

I can't believe so many Americans today seem to think that they make $60,000 a year instead of $2,000, and work eight hours a day instead of 16, because their boss is just such a swell guy. NEWSFLASH, you have any rights at all because brave men and women like this fought and died for you, not in trenches on foreign battlefields, but places like Haymarket. You're rapidly losing those rights because you've forgotten our history!

[supermariobubba]

This is why i hate liberals

1: they think we should work for money and give our money to them

2: they think it should be legal to murder unborn babies

3: they are dumbasses

nuf said

[Direness]

@supermariobubba I'm sorry, those are simpleton ideas about liberalism. Go read a book or two, (not published by a Fox News pundit), educate yourself, and then come back and give a valid argument.

[kingOFtheFISHpeople]

@supermariobubba

this is why I hate conservatives

1) they lack an understanding of the social contract

2) they think that a bundle of cells has more rights than a human being

3) they are dumbasses

enough said

[plaidchuck]

God bless the working man, may one day he remove the shackles off his body that bind him to this cruel system

[beantownie1]

great post. We watch it at my union hall.

Thanks on behalf of local 7 boston

[skcodyerrus]

Without the Trade union movement and a Labour government (all beit a socialist one) Britain would never of had a National Health Service. The US is now the richest and most powerful nation on earth, it certainly is not a third world country! Just a thought, but how many hard working and tax paying Americans rely on charity for their health care? Perhaps these are the people that the third world question should be aimed at!

[thesiouxgoddess]

Does the 8 hour day still even exist here America?? And I ask this question as a TAX PAYING American myself? Is the United States at the level of a "third world" country yet? Just a question and thought.

[monoceros1222]

Thanks to the Haymarket protesters - true Americans - a great step was taken on the road to workers' rights the World over!!