May Day News

Do you know who these lovely ladies are? Help us identify the people in this photo of a 1930s parade, possibly Lei Day, Hilo, Hawai`i. May Day is Lei Day in Hawai`i, however, with budget cuts across almost every public and private activity in the Island State, there might be a lot fewer garlands of flowers ev'rywhere. But despite the cutbacks, ...

WARRINGTON Wolves have been slotted into the Saturday programme for Magic Weekend 2010 in Edinburgh.

CHENNAI: The dawn of 2010 will bring no cheer to many government employees and those working for organisations that follow a five-day week schedule.

HYDERABAD: The Labour Department on Thursday issued an order declaring five national and four festival holidays in the year 2010.

Long before the Berlin Wall came down, there was May Day in New York. Thinking back about the flow of history these last forty years or so, there have been many other signposts.

American Airlines is moving up the start of its Chicago-to-Beijing service by a few days so people can travel to May Day celebrations next spring.

As I grew up in Northfield , there were two times a year that I visited all the homes in several blocks near my home - May Day and Halloween.

Prosecutors say they will not file charges against a group of Los Angeles police officers who fired rubber bullets and pummeled demonstrators with batons at a pro-immigration rally two years ago.

Graham Coxon, Madness and The King Blues all contribute to 'Camden Heroes' The Gaymers Camden Crawl has joined forces with the charity War Child for its 2010 event.

Thousands of people participated in seven May Day immigrant rights protest marches throughout the Los Angeles area, May 1, 2009.

Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana's Revolution Square on Thursday for a red-splashed May Day celebration that urged economic gains and increased productivity from workers.

A man wears a gas mask on Mexico City's main square Zocalo Friday. Mexican President Felipe Calderon has asked Mexicans to stay home from May 1 to 5 and ordered to cancel May Day parades and religious processions to help slow the spread of influenza A , formerly referred to as swine flu.

In this May 1, 2007 file picture, elderly Communists pass by a poster condemning the planned U.S. missile defense radar base construction on Czech territory during Communists' May Day celebrations at Prague's exhibition ground, Czech Republic.

Only Canada, the U.S., and Bermuda celebrate Labour Day on the first Monday of September.

May 1 as a holiday for workers began in the United States. That's right, the United States.

A banner celebration: loading up with signs for the 1908 Labor Day Parade in New York Labor Day is one of the few national holidays that New York City can lay claim to as their own.

The subway train unexpectedly slowed, crawling into the dimly lit station. East German soldiers with threatening Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles stood alert on the shadowy platform.

Oh my god, can it really be, a socialist holiday looking to dim our barbecues, to cast the shadow of wild-eyed bomb-throwers over our endless good times, the end of our endless summer and future? Well, perhaps it all has to do more with our real past! As Wikipedia tells us, Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday ...

'The Luncheon on the Grass' proved to be one of the artists' most controversial pieces, with few recognizing its origins.

DORCHESTER'S Skate Park Committee wants skaters and bikers festival to be held next year.