{"id":63652,"date":"2021-05-03T18:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=63652"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T18:10:52","slug":"international-workers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/international-workers-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"International Workers\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">International Workers\u2019 Day<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63653 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/International-Workers-Day.png\" alt=\"International Workers\u2019 Day\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/daehaena-monthly-newsletter-may-2021-radio-4eb-sri-lankan-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daehaena \u2013 Monthly Newsletter \u2013 May 2021 \u2013 Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">International Workers&#8217; Day, also known as Labour Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and the working classes, that is promoted by the international labour <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">movement and occurs every year on 1 May.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">While it may belong to a tradition of spring <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">festivals, the date was chosen in 1889 for<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">political reasons by the Marxist International Socialist Congress, which met in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen&#8217;s Association. They <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">adopted a resolution for a &#8220;great international demonstration&#8221; in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The date had <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">been chosen by the American Federation of Labour to continue an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">earlier campaign for the eight-hour day in the United States, which had <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">culminated in the Haymarket affair, which occurred in Chicago on 4 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">May 1886. May Day subsequently became an annual event. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The first of May is a national, public holiday in many countries across <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the world, in most cases as &#8220;International Workers&#8217; Day&#8221; or a similar <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">name. Some countries celebrate a Labour Day on other dates significant to them, such as the United States and Canada, which celebrate <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Labour Day on the first Monday of September.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Workers\u2019 Day Source:Daehaena \u2013 Monthly Newsletter \u2013 May 2021 \u2013 Radio 4EB Sri Lankan Group International Workers&#8217; Day, also known as Labour Day in most countries and often referred to as May Day, is a celebration of labourers and the working classes, that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year 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