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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Haymarket amd Kemt State
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 18:31:35 -0000 (UTC)
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Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>On 2025-05-04 11:14 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>May 4th (May the Force be with you) is the anniversary of both Haymarket
>>and Kent State. May 1, May Day, International Workers Day, actually
>>commemorates the events that led up to trial of the Haymarket 8 in 1886.
>>The rest of the world celebrates Labor Day commemorating this event in
>>Chicago.

>>The Wikipedia articles says there are two alternate theories as to why
>>the celebration of labor in the United States is the first Monday in
>>September, both of which were suggested in 1882, before Haymarket.
>>Making it a federal holiday happened after the Pullman strike in 1894,
>>also in Chicago.

>>Kent State was 1970, in which multiple students and anti-war protestors
>>were shot by the Ohio National Guard. 4 died, 9 wounded

>Canada also celebrates Labour Day on the first Monday in September.

Yeah. That was the second possible theory offered on the Wikipedia page,
that an American labor leader witnessed a labor celebration in Toronto
in early September, so if that's true, then the early September date
originated in Canada.

It's probably not coincidence that a date was chosen when the weather
would still be nice. In America it's about half way between Independence
Day and Thanksgiving.