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May Day
- JKCalhoun 4y agoAlso May Queen [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Queen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Queen
- throw0101a 4y agoWhy 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_Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day#Labor_Day_versus_May... (Labour Day in Canada has different reasons.)
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- refurb 4y agoSeems 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.
- throw0101a 4y ago> […] May 1 would tend to become a commemoration […] Commemoration ≠ celebration.
- albert_e 4y agoI 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)
- slater 4y ago*m'aidez
- ydlr 4y agoOr in US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalty_Day
- mikewarot 4y agoI'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.