Every year May Day is celebrated worldwide. May Day we celebrate the day of flowers and sping making wreaths of flowers. This custom has its roots in ancient Greece, the so-called "Flower Festival" (Ανθεστήρια), starting of the city of Athens and slowly expanding to the rest of the cities of Greece.
Labor Day is the World Day of International Workers” Day and employed workers , and throughtout the world , marchs and demonstrations are taking place today , where workers are putting forward their demands in social and economic terms.
Labor day primary was determined on 20 July 1889 , during the conference of the Second International in Paris as a reminder of the workers” uprising in Chicago on May 1/ 1886.
May Day 1886 –CHICAGO:What happened that day;;
US Labor Unions decided to launch strike action with their main request for 8 hours of work a day. At that time there was no working framework , and workers were forced to work countless hours , even Sundays and Public holidays. At that time , the Canadians had succeeded in striking their claims with strike action , and this was an incentive for US workers to emerge as well.
More than 90000 workers took part in the strike protest in Chicago , while 350000 workers from 1200 factories participaded in the strike.
Three days later , on May 4, the police were ordered to disband the mobilization, using violence . There followed clashes in wich an unknown man , trew a grenade where a policeman was killed and several people were injured.
Police officers replied with shots , in total killed 8 proterest and six police officers, while many proterest and not only , where injured. For the death of the policeman from the bombing , 8 trade unionists were condemmed to hang up and were killed. Notable American lawyers consider the trial of “eight” as one of the most serius cases of malice in history of US.
MAY DAY IN GREECE:
In Greece the first May Day gathering took place in 1892 , and the 1893 2000 workers were protesting. The main demand was the eight -hour work and state insurance for the victims of industrial accidents .
I May 1936 , tobacco workers of Thessaloniki , who was complaining about the same demands , they were occupied to a factory and had the support of tobacco workers from other factories. They were attacked by both , the police and the army , and the result was that eight workers were killed by shots. At that point the smoker"s monument was set up in Thessaloniki. This particular event also inspired the great Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos , write the poem "Epitaph"
Of course in many countries of the world Labor Day is celebrated , like America , Canada , Germany ,Japan e.t.c.
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