The Labour Day annually celebrates the achievements of workers. While the day has different origins in different countries, the main reason for Labour Day is unfair treatment of the labour class. May 1 was chosen to be International Workers' Day to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.

History of Labour Day

In 1893 George Pullman founded a company, by the name Pullman sleeping cars. The company was very successful in its initial stages but later it went into the recession stage , causing the company's employees to cut down the wages of many of the workers, even some customers were also dismissed. Due to this Jobless people were hardly meeting their basic needs.

A young jobless man by the name Eugene Debs led a riot against the Pullman company , all Pullman products were boycotted across the country. The issue became national when a train carrying mails was destroyed by the workers. Hence the President ordered to use force to break the riots. Men were killed and some were badly wounded.

Haymarket - Riot

On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ordinary workers combined to make the city the center of the national movement for an eight-hour day. ... At the McCormick reaper plant, a long-simmering strike erupted in violence on May 3, and police fired at strikers, killing at least two.

On May 4 a mass meeting was called at Haymarket, at that day a bomb 💣 was blasted there leading to some major politicians death.

At last after a lot of killings and massacre, congress made an agreement with the workers and also agreed to celebrate the Labour Day 🎽.

In the last i would like to conclude my discussion by saying that:

"Labours are the backbone of a Country's economy.If Labours are happy, the country will surely be strong economically"

~Regards (Mohsin)