assassination, and o attempts in 1878 on the german kaiser, one each on the king of spain and italy, and a second attempt on the king of spain, and james a garfield assassinated in 1882 by a suspected anarchist, as was mckinley. two british officials were killed by irish revolutionists, blamed on anarchists. if you want to check me out on this, wikipedia has a list of assassinations by country, so you can trace the anarchist bloodshed on wikipedia. the appeal of violence was, of course as you would expect, totally disturbing to people in power. threat to the modest, to the more moderate, the american federation of labor. he saw it not just as different, but creating a horrible image of the working-class and violence that it was hurting his form of unionism. of 1886, things changed a lot. organized labor was organized enough. call for certain , demands such as an eight hour workday, rather than a 10-11 our workday, with the idea to be a good citizen to be a good husband, that workers needed an eight hour day. slow to joinre the union's in this stuff, in part because they figured this was just a false issue. workers get the eight hour da