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D) was opened in the year 2000
Read the text answer the questions 22 – 24
On 1 May 1886 (May Day), labor unions
organized a strike for an eight-hour work day in
Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. On 3
May, a small riot occurred at the McCormick
Harvester Plant in which there was a shooting
and one death when police clashed with the
rioters. Violence intensified on 4 May when a
protest meeting began in Haymarket Square.
During this meeting to denounce the events of
the previous days, the police had just begun to
clear out the crowd when someone threw a
bomb, killing twelve people and wounding
more than sixty. Policeman Mathias J. Degan
was killed almost instantly and seven other
policemen later died as a result of their injuries.
Four of the protestors were also killed when the
bomb went off and, in the panic that followed,
the police fired into the crowd, killing one more
person. Some of the speakers earlier in the day
had been anarchists, and so the crime was
supposed to have been committed by an
anarchist, despite the fact that no evidence for
such a link could be demonstrated. Although
the bomb-thrower was never identified, eight
men - mostly of German descent - who had
been involved in organizing the rallies were
accused of the crime and found guilty. Seven of
the men were sentenced to death and the eighth
was sentenced to fifteen years in prison by
Judge Joseph Gary, in spite of a startling lack of
evidence that any of them had had any role in
the bombing at all. The sentencing sparked
outrage in international labor circles, resulting
in protests all around the world and, eventually,
the beginning of the worldwide celebrations of
1 May as an international workers' day.
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