May Day
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May Day
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#2Also May Queen [1]
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#3Why the US doesn't really do a thing:
> 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.[19] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative,[20] formally adopting the date as a United States federal holiday through a law that he signed in 1894.[9]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day#Labor_Day_versus_May...
(Labour Day in Canada has different reasons.)
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#4Why the US doesn't really do a thing: > 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…
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#5I learnt today that the distress phrase "Mayday mayday mayday" has nothing to do with May Day and instead it is supposedly a phonetic equivalent of the French maidez (help)
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#6Why the US doesn't really do a thing: > 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…
Seems like the Haymarket Affair resulted in 7 cops killed and 4 civilians. Seems like an odd thing to celebrate?
I mean the fight for workers rights, sure, but the bombing that killed a bunch of innocent people seems unworthy of celebration.
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#8I've always assumed the rich in the US want Labor Day as far away from May day as possible, lest the workers get uppity when reminded of the past.
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#9I learnt today that the distress phrase "Mayday mayday mayday" has nothing to do with May Day and instead it is supposedly a phonetic equivalent of the French maidez (help)
*m'aidez
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#10Why the US doesn't really do a thing: > 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…
Seems like the Haymarket Affair resulted in 7 cops killed and 4 civilians. Seems like an odd thing to celebrate? I mean the fight for workers rights, sure, but the bombing that killed a bunch of innocent people seems unworthy of celebration.
> […] May 1 would tend to become a commemoration […]
Commemoration ≠ celebration.