<P> Fine observes: </P> <P> (T) he fact is that despite police repression, newspaper incitement to hysteria, and organization of the possessing classes, which followed the throwing of the bomb on May 4, the Chicago wage earners only united their forces and stiffened their resistance . The conservative and radical central bodies--there were two each of the trade unions and two also of the Knights of Labor--the socialists and the anarchists, the single taxers and the reformers, the native born...and the foreign born Germans, Bohemians, and Scandinavians, all got together for the first time on the political field in the summer following the Haymarket affair...(T) he Knights of Labor doubled its membership, reaching 40,000 in the fall of 1886 . On Labor Day the number of Chicago workers in parade led the country . </P> <P> On the first anniversary of the event, May 4, 1887, the New - York Tribune published an interview with Senator Leland Stanford, in which he addressed the consensus that "the conflict between capital and labor is intensifying" and articulated the vision advocated by the Knights of Labor for an industrial system of worker - owned co-operatives, another among the strategies pursued to advance the conditions of laborers . The interview was republished as a pamphlet to include the bill Stanford introduced in the Senate to foster co-operatives . </P> <P> Popular pressure continued for the establishment of the 8 - hour day . At the convention of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1888, the union decided to campaign for the shorter workday again . May 1, 1890, was agreed upon as the date on which workers would strike for an eight - hour work day . </P>

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