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:: Friday, May 02, 2003 ::
Rally touts recent labor victories While most of the rest of the world celebrates Labor Day on May 1, the United States officially recognizes the labor movement on Sept. 1. The irony, said Mary Alice Herbert, a union member who was a school teacher in Windham County for 30 years, is that the international May 1 celebrations commemorate an event in American labor history: a nationwide strike for the eight-hour workday, which began May 1, 1886.
"The federal government moved our celebration to September in the late 1890s to separate us from workers in the rest of the world. They march on May 1 to honor those who died in the struggle for the eight-hour workday in America," she said.------------------------------------------- posted 9:09 AM :: reference link ::
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