{"id":3624,"date":"2023-05-01T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2023-05-01T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T11:25:22","slug":"international-workers-day-commemorated-throughout-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/international-workers-day-commemorated-throughout-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"International Worker&#8217;s Day Commemorated throughout the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Worker&#8217;s Day&#8230; commemorated every May 1st, around the world. While May Day had its origins in the United States, the U.S. is one of only a few countries that does not celebrate the day.<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a0f4028ddbb08060115097' value='6a0f4028ddbb08060115097'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a0f4028ddbb08060115097' value='Read more'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a0f4028ddbb08060115097' value='Read less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-6a0f4028ddbb08060115097' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Read more<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a0f4028ddbb08060115097' ><\/div><\/p>\n<p>In 1889, the International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to the earlier International Workingmen&#8217;s Association. They adopted a resolution for a &#8220;great international demonstration&#8221; in support of working-class demands for the eight-hour day.<\/p>\n<p>The date of May 1st was chosen by the American Federation of Labor to commemorate a general strike in the United States, which had begun on May 1, 1886 and culminated in the Haymarket Massacre &#8212; in which labor union activists in Chicago were killed in the struggle for the eight-hour movement &#8212; eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.<\/p>\n<p>International Worker&#8217;s Day commemorated today throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Radio Havana Cuba][\/bg_collapse]<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='6a0f4028ddbee2015678394' value='6a0f4028ddbee2015678394'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-6a0f4028ddbee2015678394' value='Read more'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-6a0f4028ddbee2015678394' value='Read less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-6a0f4028ddbee2015678394' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Read more<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-6a0f4028ddbee2015678394' ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is International Worker&#8217;s Day&#8230; commemorated every May 1st, around the world. While May Day had its origins in the United States, the U.S. is one of only a few countries that does not celebrate the day. In 1889, the International Socialist Congress met in Paris and established the Second International as a successor to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[847,846,845,799],"class_list":["post-3624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internacionales","tag-american-federation-of-labor","tag-international-socialist-congress","tag-international-workers-day","tag-may-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3626,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3624\/revisions\/3626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}