The Brief Origins of May Day

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Post by pera » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:28 PM UTC

The Brief Origins of May Day
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Re: The Brief Origins of May Day

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Post by ramesh31 » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:50 PM UTC

Solidarity forever.

Re: The Brief Origins of May Day

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Post by throw0101a » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:51 PM UTC

It's a bit amusing that May Day was due to the major strike in the US, but the US doesn't celebrate on that day, but in September:

> There was disagreement among labor unions at this time about when a holiday celebrating workers should be, with some advocating for continued emphasis of the September march-and-picnic date while others sought the designation of the more politically charged date of May 1. Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe.[18] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative,[19] formally adopting the date as a United States federal holiday through a law that he signed in 1894.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day#Labor_Day_versus_May...

Labo(u)r Day of US/CA/JP/AU/NZ:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Observance_of_Internation...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day