What's your problem with an 8 hour workday?
"Chicago was a rising industrial city at the center of the economic changes.
"It was also a focus for the growing labor movement that was pushing for better working conditions including an 8-hour workday.
"On May 1, 1886, labor groups called for a general strike with an emphasis on an 8-hour workday.
"There were strikes in a number of cities including one in Chicago where anarchist Albert Parsons along with his wife Lucy, led a procession down Michigan Avenue.
"Two days later August Spies spoke at a rally outside of the McCormick reaper plant where at least one person was killed after attendees surged forward and were fired on by police."
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