May Day

On Friday our class discussion started with how many Americans don’t remember what May Day was. I just got up to ask my brother and sister in law if they knew what May Day was and they said it was a distress call, a call for help. In their minds, it has no relation to what May Day actually is but if thought about technically there is a relationship. Workers were kind of putting out a distress call from their labor unions. They were in distress with all the work they had.

May Day was a day where all workers protested to the long hours that they had to work. Those workers always wanted to remember May Day as their day off but that tradition had slowly worn off because of the government’s influence on the American people. The government gradually weaned Americans off of the idea of taking off on May Day by giving us Labor Day instead. They gave us a day to have BBQs and enjoy ourselves in the sun. Labor Day was meant to show appreciation for American workers instead of having us take May Day off because of the little appreciation that were shown to labor unions.