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International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day in some countries [1] and often referred to as May Day, [2] [3] is a celebration of labourers and the working classes that is promoted by the international labour movement and occurs every year on 1 May, [4] [5] or the first Monday in May.
For most countries, Labour Day is synonymous with, or linked with, International Workers' Day, which occurs on 1 May. For other countries, Labour Day is celebrated on a different date, often one with special significance for the labour movement in that country. Labour Day is a public holiday in many countries.
The Triumph of Labour statue. On a summer evening in May 1923, M. Singaravelu, a labour union leader, conducted a meeting at the Marina Beach near Triplicane, calling for recognition of workers' rights, and pledged to create a political party to represent the rights of labourers, which was India's first ever May Day rally. [2]
Courtesy U.S. Department of LaborUnion Square, New York City It is perhaps fitting that the workers who joined for the very first Labor Day holiday in the 19th century had to lose a day's pay to ...
Triumph of Labour by D. P. Roy Choudhury in Chennai. Roy Choudhury’s sculpture is located at the Marina Beach, close to the site where Singaravelu organized the first Labour Day celebrations. It shows four figures engrossed in moving a heavy boulder, who appear to succeed in their task, thus signifying the Triumph of Labour. The sculpture ...
Sep. 2—The U.S. Department of Labor details the history of Labor Day. 1 What is Labor Day? Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic ...
The first Canadian Labor Day—rather, Labour Day—was in 1872, ten years before the United States caught on. Oregon was the first state to recognize the holiday. It made Labor Day a legal ...
Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan was a political party in India. The party was founded by Singaravelu Chettiar on 1 May 1923 in Madras. [1] This was the first May Day celebration in India. This was also the first time the red flag was used in India. [2] Singaravelar made arrangements to celebrate May Day in two places in 1923.