Labour Day 2019 History, Themes, Quotes, And Messages: Labour Day or May Day is celebrated every year on May 1 in order to honour the labourers and the working class people. In some countries the day is also known as Workers’ Day, Labour Day and it is promoted by the international labour movement which takes place every year on May Day (1 May), an ancient European spring festival.
The date was selected by a pan-national organization of socialist and communist political parties in order to honour the Haymarket affair, which happened on 4th May 1886 in Chicago. The 1904 Sixth Conference of the Second International, called on entirely Social Democratic Party associations and trade unions of all nations in order to show activity on the First of May for the legal formation of the 8-hour day, for the class appeals of the proletariat as well as for worldwide peace and harmony.
The first of May is a national public holiday in a lot of nations internationally, in most circumstances as Labour Day, International Workers’ Day or a number of related names. However, some nations celebrate Labour Day on further dates important to them, like the United States, which rejoices Labor Day on the first Monday of the month of September.
Labour Day/May Day 2019 Theme
In the year 2019, the theme of the Labour Day (International Workers’ Day) is “Uniting Workers for Social and Economic Advancement”.
Here are some of the other previous years’ themes of Labour Day, let’s check it out….
International Workers’ Day in the year 2016 theme: “International Labour Movement Celebration”.
International Workers’ Day in the year 2015 theme: “Build the Future in Solidarity, Peace and Decent work of Cameroon”.
International Workers’ Day in the year 2014 theme: “Providing of the Job with helping of the Capital by giving value the work”.
International Workers’ day in the year 2013 theme: “Employment promotion by helping Entrepreneurs Perspectives”.
Labour Day (International Workers’ Day) 2019 Quotes And Messages
“Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.” Samuel Gompers
“The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.” William Cobbett
“Labor disgraces no man. Unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.” -Ulysses S. Grant
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
“Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.” Mary Ellen Chase
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level–I mean the wages of decent living.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
“May your life is filled with blessings and happiness. May your life is blessed with sunshine and success. On this May Day 2019, sending you warm wishes on the occasion of Labor Day.”
“Always be a hard working soul as nothing good comes easy in life…. So make the best of your efforts to achieve your goals…. Happy May Day 2019!!!”
“The world is incomplete without the contribution of labors as we are the one who work so hard to make the impossible possible. Sending you warm wishes on Labor Day 2019 my friend.”
“Always be a hard working soul as nothing good comes easy in life…. So make the best of your efforts to achieve your goals…. Happy May Day 2019!!!”
