Web News Article #: 088-20160 4/27/2016 – May Day, the International Workers Day, is celebrated around the world on May 1. Although May Day originated in Chicago in the 1880s when workers first fought for the eight-hour day, the holiday is not officially recognized in this country. But APWU President Mark Dimondstein is urging union…
See: ▶ May Day (05.01.14) in Baltimore – YouTube. Under sunny skies, more than 100 activists gathered at McKeldin Square in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to celebrate “May Day.” After all the speeches at this site, the spirited crowd marched about five blocks east – over to the main post office building on Fayette Street. Organizer…
By Eric Chase – 1993. Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers’ Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don’t realize that May Day has its…
