Sunday, May 1, 2011

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May 1

On 1 May 1866 in Chicago, and after a Congress of Workers in Baltimore (USA) whose meeting it was decided strive for an 8-hour workday, expressed these and were suppressed violently by the police.
result of that demonstration was the arrest of seven workers who were later hanged.
In tribute these seven people, martyrs for a just cause, the International Congress held in Paris in 1889, was declared May 1 as International Labor Day. "

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