CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
International Labour Day – 1st May
- International Workers Day, also known as Labour Day or May Day, is observed on 1 May every year.
- The global event is organised to celebrate the working class and the labourers.
- It was started in the year 1886 when on 1st May when people in the United States of America started a strike to fix the working duration to a maximum of 8 hours per day.
- Soon, there was a bomb blast that took place on 4th May in Haymarket Square of Chicago in which many people died and many others were severely injured.
- With respect to those who died in the incident, the socialist pan-national organization started on 1st May as International Labour Day which also promoted labour welfare throughout the world.
