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Spring breeze and spring rain swept Yuan Ye, and a long layer of green was awakened. May, in this spring season, is a day when heavy rain comes after thunder, and geese flying south wade across mountains and rivers to go home; It is the brilliant season when apricot blossoms bloom all over Shan Ye "she laughs in the bushes"; It is a good time for winter wheat farmers to sweat and hoe and work hard. Frogs chirping insects, fish jumping and birds scattered, and the wilderness in early spring is full of noise. The soaring kite is in the embrace of the blue sky, and people on the ground are stretching their muscles and saving their strength. Unconsciously, spring is coming to us quietly with light steps-in the spring of May. May is a paradise for children. Throw away the heavy cotton-padded clothes and hats, run to the fields to have fun and sing a spring song with the willow flute. May is the day of young people, the season of surging spring tide, holding hands with your son, walking with your son, picking roses in spring to decorate the sky of love; May is a festival for the elderly, walking along with spring scenery and singing birds, and fishing on the newly thawed lake ... May is a day for all people-a festival for working people all over the world. [-Looking for an article, I found that the days flowed away like water, and the memories were increasingly mottled by the passage of time, but people did not forget this scene. "May 1 International Labor Day" became a special commemoration of their heroic feats. Working people are the greatest people in the world. They have created the world, created mankind and created our happy life today. It is labor that has built today's towering buildings; It is labor that has built a modern information superhighway; It is labor that has turned the vast earth into a small village; It is labor that turns the vast wasteland into acres of fertile land. Labor is magical, and labor is great. With hard-working hands and wisdom, laborers have woven this colorful world and created human civilization. Let's pay tribute to the workers all over the world on this special day! In May full of true feelings, hold your hand full of cocoons due to labor, send my sincere wishes and listen to the hymn of your labor. "Outside the pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is blue and the sky is blue" is a kind of life; It is a kind of life to "lean on the railing and rest in the rain"; It is a kind of life to hit the water in the middle stream and the waves will stop the flying boat. "Unknown, selfless dedication" is also a kind of life. All kinds of life and labor are like sugar cubes in coffee, which make our life interesting; Labor, like a roadside landscape, makes our life bright and colorful. May, the truth may. In the tall building outside the building and the pavilion outside, let's sing a song of river of no return hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, full of lofty sentiments, and give the wishes of workers all over the world to the distance and tomorrow. Let's cheer for tomorrow, sing for May and give high-five to the workers!

Throughout the world, except in North America, May 1 is celebrated as International Worker’s Day.

Oddly enough, May 1 has its origins in the United States. During the late 19th century, when the effects of the Industrial Revoultion were starting to take hold, workers had few, if any rights. Journalist Michael Thomas notes that the "political and legal system failed to recognize even the most basic rights of workplace safety , community sanitation and child protection." Despite all this, the right to an eight-hour workday, something we have come to recognize as a basic right and a pillar of our workday structure, turned into the rallying call that united workers everywhere.

On May 1, 1866 the American Labor Federation declared a national strike to demand an eight-hour workday. Hundreds of thousands heeded the call. Over the next se veral days more and more people joined the strike, culminating in a mass rally in Chicago’s Haymarket Square on May 4. Toward the end of the rally, someone (it was never determined who) threw a bomb into the crowd, killing a police officer and injuring others. The police, in turn, opened fire and killed several demonstrators and injured hundreds of others.

Eight labour leaders were eventually brought to trial. Despite a lack of evidence, four were hanged, one committed suicide, and three were given life in jail (in 1893 all eight were pardoned owing to lack of evidence). Since then, these events, and the manner in which workers came together, have become a symbol for the sacrifices that were made in the struggle for better working conditions. May 1, the day of the original demonstrations, is now recognized as an international day of worker solidarity.