May Day History Thread

[JackRiddler]

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Good collection of photos and May Day history since the 19th century.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520 ... 57863.html

(Since there's around 75 images, here's one of the first.)

On May Day 1867, the Molders Union Local 23 in Chicago went on strike, helping to start the movement for an eight-hour workday.

[Joe Hillshoist]

"Exiled to New Caledonia as punishment"

Punishment?

[Luther Blissett]

As knowledge of its existence spreads across the internet to some normies, I see a lot of algorithm-based media sites do that thing they normally reserve for celebrity news: use automatic content generation and then aggregate some tweets. Hilarity ensues.

[Belligerent Savant]

https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/ ... auYf42KWeg