World Labor Day or Labor Day, as it is also called Labor Day, a day of celebrations in which most of the world celebrates
work and workers, in which workers organize demonstrations demanding political status.
The origin of the celebration is May 1, 1886, when the workers in Chicago and then in Torrento organized a strike of 350-400 thousand workers, demanding hours of work under the slogan: "Eight working hours, eight hours of sleep , Eight hours vacuum to rest and enjoy. "
Which did not rise to the authorities and owners of factories, especially that the call to strike was a good success and paralyzed economic movement in the city, police opened fire on demonstrators and killed a number of them, and then threw a bomb in the center of a police gathering killed 11 people, including 7 policemen and arrested on the following Many of the workers' leaders were sentenced to death and four were sentenced to death for varying periods.
At the same time as the executioner carried out the execution of the four workers, the wife of August Spice, one of the workers sentenced to death read a letter written by her husband to his little son Jim
"When I grow up and become a young man and check my age, you'll know why I'm dying. I have nothing more to say than I'm innocent. I die for a decent cause so I do not fear death and when you grow up, your father will be proud and tell his story to your friends.
The fact that the bomb was dropped when a police officer admitted that the grenade was thrown was one of the police officers themselves.
In solidarity with Chicago workers
This incident made the French Labor Conference in Bordeaux in 1888 decide to consider the first of May as a holiday for the working class in France in solidarity with Chicago workers.
In the following year, the American Labor Federation passed a resolution similar to that of the French union and was followed by a third resolution of the second international organizations of the trade unions, and the movement of workers in Europe became stronger and more vivid. Four hundred delegates, and the first requirement was that the working day consisted of eight hours. The representative of the French unions demanded that this demand be expressed in all countries through a comprehensive stop of work. The delegate of the American workers referred to the decision of his comrades to strike on the first of 1890, Congress decided on this date International Workers to celebrate.