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The May Day Story The Powerful Want You to Forget
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5:17Now PlayingDid you know that May Day started in the United States? Despite that and the fact that almost every other country celebrates international labor day on May first, the United States government continues to celebrate the purely propagandistic “Loyalty Day” and Labor Day is somewhere in September.
According to our guest Kim Kelly’s article from 2019 on the topic (link below), the origins of May Day are this: “In 1888, the American Federation of Labor chose May 1,1890, as the date for a massive demonstration advocating for the eight-hour workday; with that in mind, in 1889, the first Congress of the Second International, a federation of socialist parties and labor unions, also called for a global day of protest on May 1, 1890, in honor of the Haymarket Martyrs, eight Chicago anarchists who were arrested for a crime they did not commit (four of them were hanged).”
“In 1955, at the peak of the anti-communist Red Scare helmed by Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy, Congress passed a resolution deeming May 1 “Loyalty Day.” The explicit aim was to counter the impact of May Day rallies around the globe. Three years later, in 1958, it was enshrined as an annual holiday (albeit without any real perks) and has been reaffirmed via annual proclamations issued by every president since Eisenhower.”
Kim Kelly is a freelance labor journalist & teen vogue columnist and her book Fight Like HellThe Untold History of American Labor came out THIS WEEK. Follow Kim on Twitter
James Fritz is a standup comedian based in LA, His album, "Still Together," was released by ASpecialThing Records and he is a writer on the Frankie Quinones Show podcast. Follow James on Twitter
Recorded May Day, 2022
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