INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY

International Workers' Day, also knows as Labour Day in some palces, is celebrated on the 1st of May and is the day of laborers. On this day no-one has work. The 1 May date is used because in 1884 the American Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demanded an eight-hour workday, to come in effect as of 1 May 1886. This resulted in the general strike and the Haymarket Riot of 1886, but eventually also in the official sanction of the eight-hour workday.