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May First – International Workers Day
by Dan La Botz
May First, International Labor Day, is not a holiday alien to the United Status. On the contrary, the International Workers Day has its origins in a movement in Chicago in the year 1886. At that time, the city of Chicago was the center of the Great Lakes industrial region of the United States. There were there an enormous concentration of factories, the great knot of railroad lines that connected the urban centers of the nation, and millions of immigrants who had come from Europe, giving their sweat and blood for the progress of the country. One of the most important industries in Chicago was the manufacture of harvesting machines at Cyrus McCormick’s factory. That factory would become the center of a social upheaval that would become known throughout the world.
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Organized by
Resource Center of the Americas
May First – International Workers Day
by Dan La Botz
May First, International Labor Day, is not a holiday alien to the United Status. On the contrary, the International Workers Day has its origins in a movement in Chicago in the year 1886. At that time, the city of Chicago was the center of the Great Lakes industrial region of the United States. There were there an enormous concentration of factories, the great knot of railroad lines that connected the urban centers of the nation, and millions of immigrants who had come from Europe, giving their sweat and blood for the progress of the country. One of the most important industries in Chicago was the manufacture of harvesting machines at Cyrus McCormick’s factory. That factory would become the center of a social upheaval that would become known throughout the world.
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