Three armored cars were used,[4] one of which, named Dziadek ("Grandpa"), was captured by the workers in the Market Square area.

[3] Workers rights were curtailed, their material situation drastically worsened, and Polish socialists were in opposition to the coalition government of Endecja and Chjeno-Piast, with Wincenty Witos as prime minister.

[citation needed] Another large workers' demonstration began in the late morning of 6 November and resulted in the events described in some sources as Bloody Tuesday.

[7] It began when the protesters approached Worker's House, located on Dunajewskiego Street, where a demonstration was planned for that day.

[6] As the situation escalated, local authorities called uhlans of the 8th Regiment, under Rotmistrz Lucjan Bochenek, an experienced soldier, who ordered his subordinates to charge on the crowd, but the horses were unable to run on the wet streets, and many of them slipped and fell.

[6] Another cavalry unit was also disarmed, and its commandant, shot in both legs, was unable to control the soldiers, who, after hearing workers chant "Long live Pilsudski!

[citation needed] Upon the orders of General Czikiel, Colonel Becker was left in charge of the army units sent to fight the demonstrators.

Becker, finding out about failure of the mounted troops, sent in infantry regiments, who on the previous night had been transported from Katowice and the area of Lwow.

However, the government in Warsaw, anxious about the situation, had already begun negotiations with the opposition, and a five-hour truce was declared, which prevented further fighting.

[citation needed] By 6 November the Polish government declared that it was willing to negotiate with PPS, a ceasefire was agreed upon and the riots subsided.

[6] The increasingly unpopular Chjeno-Piast government would resign in December 1923, partly from its handling of the Kraków riots.

[8][9][10][11] Apart from Kraków, there were in early November 1923 violent street demonstrations and clashes with police in other southern Polish cities, such as Tarnów, and Boryslaw, with a number of people wounded or killed.