Spring and Labor Day: The first date of May

Today, in many countries of the world, the winner of May is celebrated – we know this day as spring and labor holiday in Russia.

As an important date, on May, in the middle of the 19th century, it emerged in the working movement, which was one of the main requirements, the promotion of an eight-hour working day-such an attempt in 1856 was Australian workers and since then your holiday was annual in the country.

The Soviet Republic introduced this holiday only in 1918 under the name of the international day, and in 1972 the name was changed on the first of May-International Workers on the day of the solidarity of the workers. Although Pulvomay had begun to celebrate long ago, for the first time in 1890 in Warsaw (at that time was part of the Russian Empire), during the strike attended by 10,000 workers. Seven years later, the so -called “Maevki ver began to become political due to the nature of the nature and was accompanied by mass demonstrations and in 1901, St. Petersburg, Tiffsburg, Tbilisi, Gomel, Kharkov and other cities with the autocracy with slogans! ”And” Long live the Republic! “This day only opened for the first time after the February Revolution in 1917: Then millions of workers took various slogans for freedom and the war until the end of the war (World War I). A little later, after the October Revolution in 1917, the holiday picture became a picture of a day.

Later, in the meantime, the workers were celebrated on May 1 and 2 on May 2, and Maevki passed throughout the country on the second day of the holiday – mass celebrations in nature.

In the Age of “Advanced Socialism ında in the USSR, Perkomais demonstrations began to carry a different semantic burden, so the activists“ they expressed the solidarity of the workers of the workers of the workers of the workers of the workers of capitalist countries, they gave all the powers of the struggle for peace for the construction of a communist society. He said they celebrated their merger.

Similar demonstrations were renamed for the last time on May 1, 1990 and two years later as spring and labor holidays. In modern facts, the holiday, of course, lost its original political character.

In the meantime, it was interesting that the first of May was founded as the International Day of International Solidarity of International Workers in memory of Chicago Riot for Heimarket at the 1889th congress of II International. Later, on May 1, 1886, Chicago workers held a mass strike demanding an eight -hour working day, where approximately 40,000 people were killed as a result of such a “uprising ,, a few days later, a haymarket passed another rally police cruel. During this demonstration, a bomb was thrown into the police detachment, several police officers and workers were killed, and then representatives of law enforcement officers opened fire on the protesters. As a result, eight Protestants, four of whom were court decisions, were detained.