Posted on 05/01/2024 12:31:36 AM PDT by RandFan
International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some 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 on 1 May, or the first Monday in May.
Traditionally, 1 May is the date of the European spring festival of May Day. In 1889, the Marxist International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen's Association. They adopted a resolution for a "great international demonstration" in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day. The 1 May date was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on 1 May 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket affair four days later. The demonstration subsequently became a yearly event. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on "all Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the eight-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace".
So far I have discovered it's a holiday in Switzerland of all places and some places closed there...
Oh, joy,
Instructions unclear, untied instead and hurled whirled peas.
A terrible century and yet they “celebrate”
Do they have any idea of what they’re gathering for other than gathering?
God bless them. No doubt many are working hard to make ends meet.
Dyslexics of the world, untie!
Workers my big buttocks. I’ve already “United” enough to have two kids, raised them to work, forgot to teach them to send their old man money, and screw it. I’m retired. 😎
Central planning never works out for the people.
Barely A Month Old, California’s $20-Hr. Fast-Food Minimum Wage Is Already An Economic Disaster
https://issuesinsights.com/2024/05/01/barely-a-month-old-californias-20-hr-fast-food-minimum-wage-is-already-an-economic-disaster/
“Between last fall and January,” Ohanian wrote, “California fast-food restaurants cut about 9,500 jobs
Wendy’s has already boosted prices 8%, Chipotle by 7.5%, Starbucks by 7%. “McDonald’s has announced it will be raising prices, and many other fast-food franchises have announced hiring freezes,” Ohanian observed. Since last September, prices have shot up 10% total.
You know what’s funny? I love conversing with ret’d people online (I am much younger) because they tell it like it is and don’t give a f(ck and not motivated by money either.
Much wisdom can be gained.
This is why I like FR so much.
+1 for all those ret’d folk on FR.
The worst century on record — the Socialist Century.
Let us not forget Mao Zedong’s China as well. Still before my time but that was only early 70s which many here will remember: Famine, death and destruction. Senseless.
anything Marxism touched turn to garbage.
Thx for the heads up!
With govt as the largest: employer, consumer, lender, borrower, landlord and tenant-
employing armies of regulators and libraries of regulations,
including govt union pension funds being among the largest holders of “privately” held stock......happy socialist day folks.
I’m in between. You are wise. Such interaction dramatically changed my life for the better. Having first person access to almost anyone in the world within reason is an incredible advantage that the internet affords anyone that is remotely industrious.
There would have been no national socialism without soviet socialism.
83, retired vet here. Yes, we tell it like it is and don’t suffer fools gladly!😎
May 1 is a totally different feast day for the individuals.
https://www.goodcatholic.com/why-did-pius-xii-institute-the-feast-of-st-joseph-the-worker/
In 1955, a huge swath of the world lay under the evil shadow of Communism.
Among the efforts of Pope Pius XII to counter the evil effects of Communism’s atheistic ideology was the institution of a new feast in honor of St. Joseph the Worker. Pius XII placed it on May 1st, the same day that the Communists held their “May Day” celebration: an anti-religious, secular commemoration of labor.
To counter the communist view, Pope Pius XII placed before the faithful the example of St. Joseph the Worker, true model of all workers. Unlike the Communists—who viewed work in purely materialistic terms and cut God right out of the equation—St. Joseph’s work had a supremely spiritual dimension.
St. Joseph did his work, quite literally, for God. As a carpenter in Nazareth, he worked in order to support the Child Jesus and His Mother Mary. Jesus learned the carpenter’s trade from St. Joseph and worked for the majority of His life as a carpenter Himself. The life of the Holy Family shows us the value, beauty, and sanctity of work.
St. Joseph the Worker is the patron saint of all workers, especially husbands and fathers who get up and go to work every day to support the family they love and cherish.
I talk to retirees on Twitter/X and enjoy the cut and thrust of debate here on FR.
It’s not for everyone though, is it! Can be ruthless at times but I appreciate the Mods have provided a safe space.
“Where Does the Left’s Antisemitism Come From? Karl Marx (Money Is the Jealous God of Israel)”
Said the author who was so poor he pawned his own trousers on several occasions.
I don’t know this educator but he provides educational talks on various individuals and their philosophical impact on societies.
Wes Cecil on Marx (philosophy)
https://youtu.be/FosfvOdXrrw?feature=shared
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