Xref: utzoo soc.culture.french:4756 trial.soc.culture.italian:141 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!psuvax1!marcone From: marcone@math.psu.edu (Alberto G. Marcone) Newsgroups: soc.culture.french,trial.soc.culture.italian Subject: Re: May Day Message-ID: Date: 2 May 91 19:27:59 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: gauss.math.psu.edu In article jeanne@ecse.rpi.edu (Philippe Jeanne) writes: > >May 1st is traditionally Labor Day in most western european countries, and >I think, a significant number of other countries, but not the US. This morning >I heard on RFI (Radio France Internationale) an editorial dealing with the >origins of this date. According to this show, the origins of the celebration >of Labor day on May 1st are to be linked to a demonstration which occured in >Fourmi (where is it ?), and at the end of which the troop fired on the workers >and killed a lot of them. The story I had heard before was quite similar >except that the place of this demonstration was in the US (Chicago or Detroit) >which makes it very paradoxal: the US being one of the few countries that do >not celebrate Labor Day on May 1st. > Isn't the same thing for March 8 (women's day)? Also this is supposed to remember something happened in the US (I believe the death of a lot of women in a factory) but it is not celebrated in the US. [I believe it is celebrated in Canada, though]. Alberto Marcone