Answers of Quiz 1992 (International Labour Day)

1. On 1 May
2. International Workers Day, Workers Day or May Day
3. 1886
4. 8 hour
5. On 4 May 1886, the police acted to disperse a public assembly in support of the strike when an unidentified person threw a bomb. The police responded by firing on the workers. The event lead to the death of eight and injury of sixty police officers as well as an unknown number of civilian killed or wounded. Hundreds of labour leaders and sympathizers were later rounded-up and four were executed by hanging, after a trial that was seen as a miscarriage of justice.
6. On 5 May 1886 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, the state militia fired on a crowd of strikers killing seven, including a schoolboy and a man feeding chickens in his yard.
7. 1889
8. "All Social Democratic Party organisations and trade unions of all countries to demonstrate energetically on the First of May for the legal establishment of the 8-hour day, for the class demands of the proletariat, and for universal peace."
9. International Labour Organisation (ILO)
10. elebrations, protests, strikes and commemorations

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