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Increase knowledge! The original May Day Labor Day is such a origin
Origin and significance
May Day, also known as May Day International Labor Day, is an international holiday. The origin of Labor Day is the victory of the Chicago workers' strike on May 1, 1886, which has the significance of commemorating the legal rights and interests of workers.
China has a total of seven legal holidays, of which Labor Day occupies a place, and Labor Day is not our traditional Chinese national festival, but an international festival, the earliest source of the victory of the Chicago workers strike, and later popularized in many countries, the meaning is to commemorate the legitimate rights and interests of workers, the proletariat a great victory.
Brief history
Labor Day originated in 1886 in Chicago, the United States workers strike movement. On May 1, 1886, Chicago in the United States broke out an eight-hour strike movement, which finally ended in the victory of the workers, and the proletarian workers won the victory of rights and interests.
In 1889, Engels proposed at the socialist rally to set up the May 1 strike of American workers as the May Day Labor Day to celebrate the victory of the proletariat, and later many countries began to celebrate Labor Day on May 1, and China even established Labor Day as a legal holiday after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
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