Category:The Employer of Capital

Point of Divergence

- After repeated pleas from Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab, Illinois Governor Richard J. Oglesby never commutes their sentences for their roles in the Haymarket affair|Haymarket Affair.

- For refusing to commute the sentences, Oglesby is villified by the nascent labor movement, which organizes into the Labor Party to serve as a viable vehicle for the movement.

- The new party wins arrays of seats in the House and Senate in the 1886 midterms, convincing Samuel Gompers to involve the labor movement in electoral politics.