A strike in support of an eight-hour workday began on May 1, 1886. On May 4, as police were dispersing a crowd of protestors, a bomb was thrown, resulting in police shootings and several deaths. The event infuriated the labor movement, and May 1 became a day to remember the riots.
The 1886 strike was a labor union strike involving over 200,000 workers. On March 1, 1886, railroad workers in five states went on strike against Jay Gould's Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads. A total of ten people were killed.
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