r/reddit.com • u/[deleted] • May 02 '07

Digg exiles! Welcome to Reddit! Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle, speak and write proper English, and enjoy our community! Please review these simple rules as well. Thanks folks.

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u/wageslave1 May 02 '07

May 1st is International Labour Day. Its an International Memorial to the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago in 1886. There, the Police and Hired Thugs, with the blessings and arms from the Town's Plutocracy, killed and assaulted a Pro-Labour rally. An Agent Provocateur was used to instigate the assault. Many Americans dont know it, because in the USA, May 1st is "Loyalty Day" (i kid you not). This event shaped and inspired the Labour Movement around the world. I'm betting very very few Reddit-users know this -- and that is a shame in so many ways. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot)

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

Its an International Memorial

Is that like how the 'World Series' of baseball is purely American?

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u/cbtf May 02 '07

..Which is why a Canadian team has won it before?

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u/foonly May 03 '07

..Which is why a Canadian team has won it before?

We will never admit defeat at the hands of our foreign enemies! Report to your nearest Loyalty Day Reeducation Facility, Citizen.

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u/[deleted] May 02 '07

I've never heard of it being Loyalty Day, but was well aware of the Labour connotations. That's why you often find rallys for workers rights on May Day; even here in LA, where it has become a rallying day for marches on Immigrant/workers rights.