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Pullman Strike 1894 The big spark of what caused the strike was the 28% wage cut. So the people reacted by not having Pullman cars. The strike effectively production in the pullman cars and led up to a lock down. For an example one man worked 120 hours on the rail roads and after all rent and miscellaneous and only made 7 cents. So the workers weren't barely making enough money for their families to support them. These are why the people protested.

Haymarket Riot 1886 May 4, 1886, a bomb was thrown through the window of a police department during a strike. The strike was started for having an eight hour work day as standard.This strike was held throughout many cities in the US ranging from New York to Chicago. The blast from the bomb killed seven police officers and an unknown amount of civilians one of them being Mathias J. Degan, who was a patrolman during the riot. Eight men were charged with the bombing, 4 were hung, 1 committed suicide in his cell, and the final 3 were pardoned by the governor.