Labour day-
Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. New Zealand workers were among the first in the world to claim this right when, in 1840, the carpenter Samuel won an eight-hour day in Wellington. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade union members and supporters attended parades in the main centres.
3 things that I have learned about labour day:
1- It's a public holiday.
2-its on 28th of October.
3-Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day
Thanks Hassan. I appreciate your post about Labour Day. There was a long time between Samuel Parnell's first refusal to work more than eight hours and legislation that limited the hours people work in a week. Did an eight-hour work day ever become a law?
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