Labor Day in the United States

Adam Schulte asks why america's labor day exactly is in september, while the rest of the world is celebrating labor day on may first. He says it goes back to an eight hour day campaign that was conducted really around the world in the late nineteenth century. It resulted in chicago being shut down for a week during which time workers were brutally repressed by police. In 18 89, at the first congress of the second international, the global socialist movement, a french delegate proposed that workers around the world ought to commemorate the haymarket massacres through a action,. To strike a day of celebration on May first. So the date is chosen to commemorate an act of american state