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From: Owen Cramer <OCramer@ColoradoCollege.edu>
Subject: RE: May 1st (& Credentials)
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Oscar Karaman's greeting touches me as an old Chicagoan who honors the
memory of the labor heroes and martyrs (that's the classical connection) as
well as of Gov. John Peter Altgeld who pardoned the three surviving
convicts.  It's actually not 110 years:  the strike at McCormick was called
for May 1 (already a labor day), the big confrontation and bombing was May 4
(1886), the hanging was in Nov. of 1887 and the pardon came in 1893.  
Owen Cramer
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