International Labor Day

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International Labor Day, also known as "May 1st International Labor Day" and "International Workers' Day" (International Workers' Day or May Day), is a national holiday in more than 80 countries around the world. Set on May 1st of each year. It is a festival shared by working people all over the world.

In July 1889, the Second International, led by Engels, held a congress in Paris. The meeting passed a resolution stipulating that the international laborers would hold a parade on May 1, 1890, and decided to designate May 1 as International Labor Day. The Government Affairs Council of the Central People's Government made a decision in December 1949 to determine May 1 as Labor Day. After 1989, the State Council has commended national model workers and advanced workers basically every five years, with about 3,000 commendations each time.

On October 25, 2021, the "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Arrangement of Some Holidays in 2022" was released, and there will be 5 days off from April 30, 2022 to May 4, 2022. April 24 (Sunday) and May 7 (Saturday) for work.

In the 19th century, many countries such as the United States and Europe gradually developed from capitalism to imperialism. In order to stimulate rapid economic development and extract more surplus value to maintain this high-speed capitalist machine, capitalists continued to increase labor hours. and labor-intensive methods to brutally exploit workers.

In the United States, workers work 14 to 16 hours a day, sometimes as long as 18 hours, but the wages are very low. An overseer at a shoe factory in Massachusetts once said: "I can make a strong, able-bodied 18-year-old boy work by any of the machines here, and I can make his hair gray at the age of 22." Heavy class oppression aroused great anger among the proletarians. They know that the only way to win the conditions for survival is to unite and fight the capitalists through strike movements. The conditions of the strike proposed by the workers were to implement an eight-hour working day.

In 1866, the First International Geneva Conference put forward the slogan of the eight-hour workday.

In 1877, the first national strike in American history began. The working class took to the streets to demonstrate, asking the government to improve labor and living conditions, shortening working hours and implementing an eight-hour workday. Shortly after the strike, the team expanded, the number of union members surged, and workers from all over the country also participated in the strike movement.

Under the strong pressure of the labor movement, the US Congress was forced to enact the law of the eight-hour work day. However, some capitalists simply ignored it. This law is just a piece of paper. The workers are still living in dire straits and being tortured by the capitalists. The unbearable workers decided to push the struggle for the right to life to a new climax, preparing to hold a larger-scale strike movement.

In October 1884, eight international and national workers' groups in the United States and Canada held a rally in Chicago, United States, and decided to hold a general strike on May 1, 1886, forcing the capitalists to implement the eight-hour workday. The day has finally come. On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers from more than 20,000 companies in the United States stopped work and took to the streets, holding a massive demonstration. Workers of all colors and types of work went on a general strike. In Chicago alone, 45,000 workers took to the streets. The major industrial sectors in the United States were paralyzed, trains became snakes, shops were silent, and all warehouses were closed and sealed.

With Chicago as the center, large-scale strikes and demonstrations were held in the United States with about 350,000 people participating. The demonstrators demanded to improve labor conditions and implement an eight-hour work system. On May 3, 1886, the Chicago government dispatched the police to suppress and killed two people. The situation expanded. On May 4, the striking workers held a protest in the Haymarket Square. Because unknown people threw bombs at the police, the police finally shot, A total of 4 workers and 7 police officers were killed successively, which is known as the "Haymarket Riot" or "Haymarket Massacre". In the subsequent sentencing, eight anarchists were charged with murder, four were hanged, and one committed suicide in prison.

To commemorate this great labor movement and to protest the sentence that followed, workers' protests were held around the world. These events became the precursors to "International Labour Day".

In July 1889, at the inaugural meeting of the Second International organized by Engels, it was announced that May 1 every year would be designated as International Labor Day.

After a hard and bloody struggle, the victory was finally won. To commemorate this labor movement, on July 14, 1889, the Socialist Congress convened by Marxists from various countries was grandly opened in Paris, France. At the conference, the delegates unanimously agreed that May 1 should be designated as a common holiday for the international proletariat. This decision received an immediate and positive response from workers all over the world. On May 1, 1890, the working class in Europe and the United States took the lead in taking to the streets, holding grand demonstrations and rallies to fight for legitimate rights and interests. Since then, on this day, working people from all over the world will gather and march to celebrate, and public holidays will be held.

The Chinese people's celebration of Labor Day dates back to 1918. The Government Affairs Council of the Central People's Government designated May 1 as the statutory Labor Day in December 1949.