Labor Day in Republica Dominicana

Santo Domingo.- Today, May 1 is celebrated in various parts of the world, Labor Day or Workers, is the party par excellence of the world labor movement and yet a day that has been commonly used to perform different social demands and labor.


Since its establishment in most countries (though considering holiday was often late) by agreement of the Socialist Workers' Congress of the Second International, held in Paris in 1889, it is a day of struggle and a tribute to the Martyrs Chicago.


These anarcho-syndicalists were executed in the United States for its participation in the days of struggle for the achievement of the working day of eight hours, which originated in the strike that began on May 1, 1886 and its peak three days later, May 4, at the Haymarket Riot. Notably, in the US and Canada this commemoration is not celebrated. Instead Labor Day is celebrated in a parade held in New York and organized by the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor (Knights of Labor, in English) on the first Monday of September.





President Grover Cleveland, hosted the celebration in September for fear that the May date would strengthen the socialist movement in the United States since 1882. Canada joined commemorate the first Monday in September instead of May from 1894.