AtDDtA1: The Stockyards

[David Morris]

PBS broadcast an "American Experience" episode called "Chicago, City
of the Century," which had some amazing footage about how the
stockyards became something of a mechanized holocaust for pig & cattle
butchery, automated killing production line machines being invented
for quicker slaughtering.  Truly ghastly images.

I couldn't find any of those pictures on the website for the show, but
they did have some anarchist references:

On May 4th, 1886, a rally of anarchists and labor activists in
Chicago's Haymarket Square turned deadly. An unknown assailant tossed
a bomb into a throng of riot police, killing one instantly. In the
chaos that erupted, seven policemen were killed, sixty injured, and
civilian casualties were likely as high. The event marked the
anarchist movement as violent and made Chicago world-famous as a
hotspot of labor conflict.

Eight men were arrested and charged with murder at Haymarket. Though
they all opposed Chicago's elite businessmen, whom they believed stood
for "starvation of the masses, privileges and luxury for the few," the
eight held very different ideas about what action to take. Some
advocated change through violence, while others believed progress
could come via social engineering. Despite their different beliefs,
the trial, convictions and sentencing that followed would unite these
"Haymarket Eight" in history.

Explore the forces and ideas that came together at Haymarket. Select
any of the eight individuals listed to begin.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/sf_haymarket.html

On 1/25/07, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> "In 1670, French trader Pierre Moreau built a cabin on the site where the Chicago River empties into Lake Michigan (Schroeder, 1992:37). The area was called "Chickagou," (bad smell) by the Potawatomi Indians because of the skunk cabbage that choked the bogs draining into the river."
> http://www.ipsn.org/genesis.htm
>
>
> "When leaves are bruised or crushed, the plant releases a strong odor which smells like rotten meat."
> http://www.fcps.edu/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/skunk_cabbage.htm