Mysterious May Day
One of America’s best historians Peter Linebaugh
The original Labor Day
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May Day was created in the US and it’s celebrated all over the world.
But it’s not celebrated in the US.
Why not?
There’s a history.
It started in 1627 – and the Puritans didn’t like it.
Then in Chicago in 1886 there was a movement for an eight-hour work day for industrial workers. The police working for McCormick, a manufacturer of plows, shot four of them.
