July 21, 1877
– 30,000 Chicago workers rallied on Market Street during the Great
Upheaval wave of strikes occurring throughout the country. Future
anarchist and Haymarket martyr Albert Parsons spoke to the crowd,
advocating the use of the ballot to obtain "state control of the means
of production," and urged workers to join the workingmen's party.
Parsons was later abducted by armed men who took him to the police where
he was interrogated and informed that he had caused the city great
trouble. (From the Daily Bleed)
July 21, 1887 – 20 striking railroad workers were killed by state troopers in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. (From the Daily Bleed)
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