May Day History: How May 1 Became a Holiday for Workers - TIME
The May 1, 1886, labor action wasn’t just any strike—it was part of what became known as the Haymarket affair. On May 1 of that year, Chicago (along with other cities) was the site of a major...
International Workers' Day - Wikipedia
The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later.
Haymarket and May Day - Encyclopedia of Chicago
On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ordinary workers combined to make the city the center of the national movement for an eight-hour day. Between April 25 and May 4, workers attended scores of meetings …
The history of May Day in America : NPR
2022年4月30日 · Decades before the 8-hour work-day became the country's norm, the organization now known as the American Federation of Labor set May 1, 1886, as the date that workers nationwide should go on ...
The Haymarket Riot: 1886 Labor Incident - ThoughtCo
2019年11月4日 · The Haymarket Riot in Chicago in May 1886 killed several people and resulted in a highly controversial trial followed by executions of four men who may have been innocent. The American labor movement was dealt a severe …
May Day - Meaning, Date & Workers Day - HISTORY
On May 1, 1886, more than 300,000 workers (40,000 in Chicago alone) from 13,000 business walked out of their jobs across the country. In the following days, more workers joined and the number of...
May Day: America's traditional, radical, complicated holiday, Part 2
On May 1, 1886, more than 30,000 Chicago workers struck. Unions and labor organizations from the across the political spectrum organized parades and mass meetings, and workers in other industrialized cities like New York and Cincinnati took up the cause, marching in the streets to draw public attention to their demands and convince other ...
The Brief Origins of May Day - Industrial Workers of the World
On May 1, 1886, more than 300,000 workers in 13,000 businesses across the United States walked off their jobs in the first May Day celebration in history. In Chicago, the epicenter for the 8-hour day agitators, 40,000 went out on strike with the anarchists in …
Chicago Never Forgot the Haymarket Martyrs - Jacobin
On May 1, 1886, hundreds of thousands of US workers went on strike and marched to demand the eight-hour workday — a day of action called by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, the precursor to the American Federation of Labor.
May Day’s political roots stem from Chicago, May 1, 1886
2016年5月1日 · May Day is believed to stem from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, known as a celebration of rebirth and fertility. From a political perspective, however, its origins stem from the labor ...