{"id":8341,"date":"2026-05-01T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/may-1-international-labor-day\/---4e881e0c-d95e-4e3b-97b0-22bb9d9e29f5"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:06:14","slug":"may-1-international-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/may-1-international-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 1, International Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">International Labor Day was established due to the workers&#8217; struggle to seek and secure their rights, freedoms, and working and living conditions. The movement began in 1884, when the Federation of Organized Market and Worker&rsquo;s Union (predecessor of the American Federation of Labor) drafted a resolution that &#8220;beginning on May 1, 1886, the working hours for all workers should be 8 hours.&#8221; On May 1, 1886, over 200,000 workers, gathered in Chicago&#8217;s central square, went on strike to demand their rights. The death of 7 police officers during the protests, which had been going on for several days, was the cause of the response of the Chicago Police to the workers&#8217; movement. As a result of a bomb thrown by the police forces, 8 foremost leaders of the workers&#8217; federation were killed, thus turning May into the month of commemoration of workers&#8217; efforts to win their rights. Three years after the Chicago event, in 1889, the Second International Socialist, which took place in Paris (France), established the celebration of May 1 as the day of union, struggle, and solidarity of all the world&#8217;s workers. Today, May 1, is celebrated worldwide as International Workers&#8217; Solidarity Day. In the Republic of Albania, it is included in the list of official holidays. <em>(In the photo: Illustrative photos from the May 1st celebrations in Albania.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> Albanian Telegraphic Agency<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">&copy; https:\/\/thealbanianprofile.com\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Labor Day was established due to the workers&#8217; struggle to seek and secure their rights, freedoms, and working and living conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12419,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/12419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}