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ARMENIA MARKS INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY
armradio.am
01.05.2012 11:25
Today Armenia marks International Workers Day. It is celebrated in
more than 140 countries of the world.
International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket
Massacre in Chicago, which occurred after an unknown person threw a
dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed a public assembly during a
general strike for the eight-hour workday. In response, the Chicago
police fired on the workers killing dozens of demonstrators and
several of their own officers.
In 1889, the first congress of theSecond International, meeting in
Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition
Universelle, following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for
international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago
protests. May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the
International's second congress in 1891.
Subsequently, the May Day Riots of 1894 occurred. In 1904, the
International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on "all
Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries
to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment
of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for
universal peace." The congress made it "mandatory upon the proletarian
organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is
possible without injury to the workers."
From: Baghdasarian
armradio.am
01.05.2012 11:25
Today Armenia marks International Workers Day. It is celebrated in
more than 140 countries of the world.
International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket
Massacre in Chicago, which occurred after an unknown person threw a
dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed a public assembly during a
general strike for the eight-hour workday. In response, the Chicago
police fired on the workers killing dozens of demonstrators and
several of their own officers.
In 1889, the first congress of theSecond International, meeting in
Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition
Universelle, following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for
international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago
protests. May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the
International's second congress in 1891.
Subsequently, the May Day Riots of 1894 occurred. In 1904, the
International Socialist Conference meeting in Amsterdam called on "all
Social Democratic Party organizations and trade unions of all countries
to demonstrate energetically on May First for the legal establishment
of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for
universal peace." The congress made it "mandatory upon the proletarian
organizations of all countries to stop work on May 1, wherever it is
possible without injury to the workers."
From: Baghdasarian