May Day was born from a series of working-class struggle to gain control of the political economy of industrial rights. Development of capitalist industry in the early 19th century marks a drastic change in political economy, especially in capitalist countries in Western Europe and the United States . Tightening discipline and intensification of working hours, minimum wages, and poor working conditions at the factory level, gave birth to the resistance of the working class.
The first strikes the working class in the United States occurred in 1806 by workers Cordwainers. The strike took the organizers to court and also raised the fact that the working class in the era work of 19 to 20 hours a day. Since then, the struggle to claim the reduced hours of work on the agenda with the working class in the United States.
No two people are thought to have contributed ideas to honor the workers, Peter McGuire and Matthew Maguire , a machine worker from Paterson , New Jersey . In 1872 , McGuire and 100,000 workers went on strike to demand subtraction of working hours. McGuire then went on to talk to the workers and the unemployed, lobbied city government to provide jobs and overtime pay. McGuire became known as "disturber of the peace community".
In 1881 , McGuire moved to and proceeded to organize the carpenter . Finally founded a union consisting of a carpenter in Chicago , with McGuire as the Secretary General of the "United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America". Ideas for organizing workers according to their trades spread around the country. McGuire and laborers in other cities planned a holiday for workers in every Monday at the First month of September between Independence Day and Thanksgiving Day.
On January 5 September 1882 , the first Labor Day parade was held in the city of New York with 20,000 participants carrying banners that read 8 hours work, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours recreation. Maguire and McGuire play a key role in organizing the parade. In subsequent years, the idea spread and all states celebrated.
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