Thread: May Day Was Born in Chicago
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Old 08-08-2007, 07:14 AM   #5 (permalink)
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In the end it doesn't matter where May Day was born, we are all workers. However, Chicago made May Day, what it is today and it wasn't celebrated on a global scale until after the HayMarket riots in Chicago, therefore, it's safe to conclude that May Day was made in Chicago as evidenced here:

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May Day in this regard is called International Workers' Day or Labour Day, and is a commemoration of the execution of the Haymarket martyrs who were arrested after the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred on May 4 but was the culmination of labor unrest that had begun on May 1. Consequently this May Day became established as an anarchist and socialist holiday, and in this form, May Day has become an international celebration of the social and economic achievements of the working class and labor movement. It is somewhat ironic that the country in which this form of May Day originated is also the country in which it is least recognized; in the United States, May Day is officially observed as Loyalty Day.[2]
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International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago in 1886; in 1889, the first congress of the Second International, meeting in Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition Universelle (1889), following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago protests. These were so successful that May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891. The May Day Riots of 1894 and May Day Riots of 1919 occurred subsequently. In 1904, the International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on "all Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace." As the most effective way of demonstrating was by striking, the congress made it "mandatory upon the proletarian organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is possible without injury to the workers."
May Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Again, we are all workers, no matter where we are all from and have much in common. Funny, how the ruling class here in America, renamed May Day as "Loyalty" Day, when "Loyalty" Day was started by a group of working class Americans who rioted against the establishment. An example of double think or news-speak that George Orwell talked about in his novel 1984. Ignorance is strength, war is peace and freedom is slavery.
"An eye for an eye makes everybody blind." -Gandhi
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