Re: Haymarket amd Kemt State

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-05-04 11:14 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

May 4th (May the Force be with you) is the anniversary of both Haymarket
and Kent State. May 1, May Day, International Workers Day, actually
commemorates the events that led up to trial of the Haymarket 8 in 1886.
The rest of the world celebrates Labor Day commemorating this event in
Chicago.

The Wikipedia articles says there are two alternate theories as to why
the celebration of labor in the United States is the first Monday in
September, both of which were suggested in 1882, before Haymarket.
Making it a federal holiday happened after the Pullman strike in 1894,
also in Chicago.

Kent State was 1970, in which multiple students and anti-war protestors
were shot by the Ohio National Guard. 4 died, 9 wounded

Canada also celebrates Labour Day on the first Monday in September.

Yeah. That was the second possible theory offered on the Wikipedia page,
that an American labor leader witnessed a labor celebration in Toronto
in early September, so if that's true, then the early September date
originated in Canada.

It's probably not coincidence that a date was chosen when the weather
would still be nice. In America it's about half way between Independence
Day and Thanksgiving.