Supermarket Affair Thesis

The United States has a history of oppression, but even more history of those who fought against that oppression. During the late 1800s those oppressed were the working class of America, and they would take a stand against the Mr.Monopoly’s that employed them. The Haymarket affair marked the beginning of their fight for justice. Today, workers benefit from their decades of hard-fought battles. The Haymarket Affair served as a leading role in the securing of rights for the working-class Americans. Today Chicago is seen as one of the most dangerous and lawless cities in the United States, during the 1800s it was. “The Chicago police made more than 27,000 arrests in 1876,” one of these was a man jailed because corruption charges it was their …show more content…
This led them to threaten to bring in the militia to force workers back to their jobs, which only grew the tension in the worker-employer relationship. The tension would reach it's snapping point with the Haymarket bombing. The ensuing days saw Chicago’s street become the battle grounds for this growing class war and the movement saw its end. The dreams of the people hoping for a better society at the start of the Great Upheaval were now replaced with their familiar and new nightmares. They saw their leaders labeled anarchists and sentenced unjustly because they had brought the dark rules of society to light. However, these men spoke more in their deaths, becoming martyrs to the cause and inspiring libertarian beliefs …show more content…
It was now impossible to not see the restlessness in the working class, and the world began to realize “something was radically wrong with the existing order” (183). The Social Darwinism (Fiorini) was now viewed as the fittest pushing the working class to the bottom so they could rise to the top. This labor movement to create an equal society along with the realization of worldwide class struggle would be very impactful on organized labor in