What Is May Day?

InvestorPlace ^ | 5-1-2015 | William White

[Citizen Zed]

Today, March 1, 2015, is May Day, which is also known as International Workers’ Day.

May Day’s origins date back to May 1, 1886. It was on this day that 200,000 U.S. workers protested across the country. Their goal was an eight-hour workday and some of the protests turned violent. This became known as the Haymarket affair and it was declared a holiday by the International Socialist Conference three years later, reports Time.

The holiday spread to the rest of the world, while never quite picking up steam in America. Instead, we have Labor Day, which takes place in September. This is likely due to the socialist and communist connections of the holiday. President Eisenhower tried to further distance America from the holiday by declaring May 1 as Loyalty Day in 1958, Time notes.

May Day has been rising in popularity as a celebrated holiday in the U.S. for the last few years. Immigrants have used it as a time to protests in favor of legally moving to the country and working there. This year, many have used it to push the “Black Lives Matter” campaign, which stands against police brutality, reports the Associated Press.

[Grams A]

Back in 1952 in my world May 1st was the day I got to wear a pink dress with a white organdy apron and dance around a pole. The next year I was in junior high in another school and don’t recall May 1st in my part of the country anything other than the 1st of May. We weren’t too much into any socialist or communist agenda in our part of Kansas.

[Zeneta]

Back in 1952 in my world May 1st was the day I got to wear a pink dress with a white organdy apron and dance around a pole. The next year I was in junior high in another school and don’t recall May 1st in my part of the country anything other than the 1st of May. We weren’t too much into any socialist or communist agenda in our part of Kansas

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According to the leftists, you were displaying your “White privilege” in a racist society while you listened to Johnnie Ray & the Four Lads.

[Grams A]

I don’t think the word privileged existed in our vocabulary back then. We had a two acre garden which always needed hoeing or weeding. Gathering eggs, milking one of our cows and “slopping the hogs” were my regular chores every morning before I went to school. But these were the same things all the kids did. It’s really hard to imagine kids today doing what we considered to be normal activities and responsibilities. I never will forget my mother’s reaction to Elvis singing “Blue Suede Shoes” when she came home early one day and I was playing it on the radio.

One thing I do see in my youngest grandson though is that he is much more politically savvy than my generation was.