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Presider Grover Cleveland signed a law that made ​​the first week of September an official public holiday nationwide.

First International Congress held in September 1866 in Geneva , Switzerland , attended by various elements of workers' organizations around the world. Congress establishes a claim to reduce working hours to eight hours a day, the previous (still in the same year) has performed the National Labor Union in the U.S.: As these limits represent the general demands of the U.S. working class, the changing demands of the congress is to be common ground working class all over the world.

One may set as the struggle of the working class in the world in 1886 by the Congress of the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions for, besides providing moments of demands eight hours a day, give a new spirit of working class struggle that reached a massive in that era. May 1, chosen because in 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions , which was inspired by the success of labor action in Canada in 1872  , requires eight hours of work in the United States and enforced from 1 May 1886.

Day laborers in Indonesia

Indonesia in 1920 also began commemorating Labor Day on May 1 this.

Ibarruri Aidit (DN Aidit eldest daughter) as a child with her mother had attended the International Labor Day commemoration in the Soviet Union, after the adults attend anyway International Labour Day May 1, 1970 in the PRC Tian An Men Square to mark the event he attended also by Mao Zedong, the Prince with his wife Queen Monique Sihanouk, Cambodia's Prime Minister Pennut, Lin Biao (the second Chinese Communist Party) and the Communist Party of Burma's leader Thaksin B Tan Tein. 

But since the reign of the New Order Labor Day is no longer celebrated in Indonesia, and since then, May 1 is no longer a public holiday to commemorate the role of labor in society and the economy. This is because the labor movement is connected with the movement and understandcommunists that since the incidence of the G-30 in 1965 taboo in Indonesia.

During Suharto's rule, the action for May Day activities categorized assubversive , because May Day is always connoted with the ideology of communism . This connotation is clearly not fit, because the majority of countries in the world (which is most of the non-Communist ideologies, even embracing the principles of anti-communist), set May 1 as Labor Day and make it a national holiday.

After the end of the New Order era, although not a holiday, every comeback May 1 is celebrated by workers in Indonesia, with demonstrations in various cities.