May Day occurs on the first of May or May 1, and refers to several public holidays. At some places, May Day is synonymous to International Worker's Day or Labour Day. This post will deal with the same. Before moving on, let me remind you that today's fact will only show the Origins of International Worker's Day or Labour Day.
So, the Origin of Labour Day dates to 1884, the year in which the America Federation of Organised Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution that the demand for reducing working hours from 16 to 8 had bee failed in all legal ways. Therefore the workers decided to go on strike. This Movement gained momentum and on 1st May 1886, strike call was given. Additional police were hired to control the strike. For two days the strike remained peaceful. On 3rd May, in a factory, police resorted to unprovoked firing upon unarmed and peaceful demonstrators. As a result, four labors died and several other were injured. On May 4th, the organizers announced a big rally against the criminal action of police at market squire. All was well until the last, when the police started firing on labors, as a result of which 100 labors died. The police, in turn made an excuse that someone from the gathering hurled a grenade, which resulted in death of one police man. Thus a fake case was registered against labor leaders and 8 leaders were awarded death sentence. Albert Parson, August Spize, Adolf Fischer and George Angel were hanged on November 11, 1887. Louise Ling committed suicide in jail. The rest of the three were pardoned in 1893. In 1889 it was decided to declare May 1 as labor day. On first of May 1890, first May Day was observed in the memory of innocent martyred of Labor Movement.
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