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LeftInTX

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15. It's because they associated the Haymarket affair with anarchists. Labor Day was first held the Sept after Haymarket.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #10)

Wed Apr 29, 2026, 11:21 PM

11 hrs ago

Conservative Democratic President Grover Cleveland was one of those concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe.[18] In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative

It became an official holiday in 1894.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day

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It's because they associated the Haymarket affair with anarchists. Labor Day was first held the Sept after Haymarket. LeftInTX 11 hrs ago #15

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