See The Reason Why 1st May Is A Holiday

Check out the reason why 1st May is a holiday.

The first day of May is declared as a statutory public holiday each year. Students, workers, and all citizens, in general, become happy when this date approaches. Surprisingly, the majority of the populace has little or sometimes no idea of why 1st May is a holiday. We all refer to this day as “May Day” or “Worker’s Day”.

This article provides you with key details of why 1st May is regarded as an annual public holiday.

International Workers’ Day, observed annually on May 1st, the first Monday in May, is a day of celebration for laborers and the working classes that is supported by the global labor movement. It is also known as Labour Day in some countries and is frequently called May Day.

The spring feast of May Day is traditionally celebrated on May 1. The Second International was founded in 1889 in Paris by the Marxist International Socialist Congress to replace the earlier International Workingmen’s Association. They approved a resolution calling for a “great international demonstration” in favor of the eight-hour workday demand of the working class.

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The American Federation of Labor picked May 1 as the commemorative date to honor a nationwide strike that took place in the United States on that date in 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket incident four days later. The demonstration soon evolved into an annual occasion. “All Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the first of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace,” was the call made at the Second International’s Sixth Conference in 1904.

Check out the reason why 1st May is a holiday.

Many nations observe the first Monday in May as a national holiday, usually under the name “International Workers’ Day” or a variant thereof. Some nations, like the United States and Canada, observe Labor Day on other dates that are important to them. These nations observe Labor Day on the first Monday in September. The Catholic Church designated May 1 as “Saint Joseph the Worker” in 1955. Among other things, Saint Joseph is the patron saint of laborers and artisans.