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Today is the International Workers' Day, how it was born and the history of this day

2023-05-01 07:47:32Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Today is the International Workers' Day, how it was born and the history of
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May 1 is International Workers' Day. Almost all over the world, this day aims to remember the commitment of trade union movements to seek and secure rights, freedoms and working and living conditions. This day refers to workers' protests, for 8-hour working hours, for guaranteed average wages, for protective equipment in the workplace.

May 1 is closely associated with the bloody protests of tens of thousands of Chicago factory workers in America, on May 1, 1866, where workers demanded their rights at work. The massive and magnificent demonstration took place a year later, in the same city on May 1, 1867.

"There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voice you are drowning today." These were the last words of August Spies, one of four innocent workers who were executed after a bomb exploded in Chicago's Haymarket Square in May 1886, killing eight leading workers. The "crime" for which Spies and his comrades were being punished was being militants in the struggle that the workers had undertaken for their rights and the 8-hour work.

May 1st is a holiday established in memory of the martyrdom in Haymarket Square and to commemorate and celebrate International Workers' Solidarity Day. The history of violence in the United States showed that employers would use their arsenal, from the courts to the police. Meanwhile, the murders in one of Chicago's main squares showed how much the situation had deteriorated. But the workers' efforts for the 8-hour day in 1880 showed their determination.

The movement began in 1884, when the Federation of Organized Market and Union of Labor (predecessor of the American Federation of Labor) drafted a resolution that "beginning on May 1, 1886, the work schedule for all workers should be 8 hours."

On May 1, 1886, over 200,000 workers, gathered in Chicago's central square, would go on strike to demand their rights. While the newspapers would evaluate them as "absurd". The death of 7 police officers during the protests, which started several days ago, was the cause of the response of the Chicago Police to the workers' movement. As a result of a bomb thrown by the police force, 8 main leaders of the workers' federation were killed, thus turning May into the month of commemoration of workers' efforts to win their rights.

Three years later from the Chicago event, in 1889, the Second Socialist International, which took place in Paris (France), established the celebration of May 1 as the day of union, struggle and solidarity of all the workers of the world.

In Europe, May 1 began the manifestation with the first Geneva International. From 1891, the third Congress of the International in Brussels, decided that: May 1st will be celebrated forever and in all countries, as a "workers' holiday", in which workers will identify, advance and protect with the Constitution and Law their rights such as: Freedom, working conditions, guaranteed average salary, daily, weekly, annual leave and other holidays as needed. Today, almost 123 years later, May 1 is celebrated around the world as International Workers' Solidarity Day.


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