<span>- Increase minimum wage - National health insurance - not implemented - Expand public housing - Expand social security - 1950 law added previously excluded self-employed and domestic workers to Social security - Expand aid to education - Private welfare arrangements thrived: labor contracts of unionized workers established health insurance plans, automatic cost of living wage increases, paid vacations, and pension plans that supplemented social security</span>
The May 4, 1886, rally at Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.