may+day+riot+ca

This was a series of riots on may 1, 1894 this was caused be the high unemployment rate increased dramatically. Riots eventually broke out among theunemployed who condemned city leaders for their ineffective relief measures.

The haymarket massacre occured may 4,1886 this was a rally of unemployed worker,when an unknown person through some explosives at the city police officers the bomb blast and ensuing gunfire killed eight police officers, and an unknown number of civilians, eight anarchists were tried for murder but only four were convicted andexecuted.