Points: May Day 1986 — History of the May Day — May Day celebrations.
The first of May, popularly called May Day, is observed throughout the world as the working-class every year. But in l986 the May Day had a Special significant this year was the centenary of the May Day which was first observed in 1886 in the city of Chicago in America just one hundred years ago.
The American Federation of Labor had decided that from the first of May 1886 the workers in all factories and offices would go on a general strike demanding eight hours work a days. The centre of the working class movement was Chicago in Illinois. The police fired upon the striking workers of Chicago and killed six of them. The leaders of the movement were arrested and after a mock trial they were condemned to death. The May Day killing, arrest and death-sentence in 1886 roused loud protests from all corners of the world.
The May Day came to be observed since then as the international Day of the working class in all countries. The May Day is celebrated on a very large scale in Communist and Socialist countries like Soviet Russia, China, etc. and also in the Third World countries friendly to Socialism1 like India, Yugoslavia and Cuba. The slogan of the May Day everywhere is “Workers of the world unite”.
The first of May, popularly called May Day, is observed throughout the world as the working-class every year. But in l986 the May Day had a Special significant this year was the centenary of the May Day which was first observed in 1886 in the city of Chicago in America just one hundred years ago.
The American Federation of Labor had decided that from the first of May 1886 the workers in all factories and offices would go on a general strike demanding eight hours work a days. The centre of the working class movement was Chicago in Illinois. The police fired upon the striking workers of Chicago and killed six of them. The leaders of the movement were arrested and after a mock trial they were condemned to death. The May Day killing, arrest and death-sentence in 1886 roused loud protests from all corners of the world.
The May Day came to be observed since then as the international Day of the working class in all countries. The May Day is celebrated on a very large scale in Communist and Socialist countries like Soviet Russia, China, etc. and also in the Third World countries friendly to Socialism1 like India, Yugoslavia and Cuba. The slogan of the May Day everywhere is “Workers of the world unite”.
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