Today is May Day, remembered in most of the world for the movement for an eight hour day, culminating May 1st, 1886, with 80,000 people marching down Michigan Avenue in Chicago, chanting:
"Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest and eight hours for what you will."
Photograph byTobias Higbe.
Three days later the Haymarket Massacre ended the demonstrations badly.
"The day will come when our silence will be more powerful
than the voices you are throttling today."
—August Spies
People died for an eight hour work
week day.
Maybe that should not be forgotten.