May Day, or International Workers’ Day, is a worker’s holiday throughout the world that originated in response to the judicial murder of several anarchists after the Haymarket affair of May 1886, in a campaign of international solidarity with U.S. workers struggling for an eight-hour workday.

Of course, the U.S., tries their very to suppress this holiday by replacing it with concepts that are more in line with its ruling elite.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower replaced May?Day with Loyalty Day in 1955 in an effort to combat Communism. Loyalty Day is defined as follows in 36 U.S.C. § 115:  “a special day for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom.”

A few years later, Ronald Reagan designated May 1 as Law Day on April 9, 1984. Reagan remarked that “Law Makes Freedom Work” and “that without law there can be no freedom, only chaos and disorder”.

36 U.S.C. § 113 states that Law Day “is a special day of celebration by the people of the United States—(1) in appreciation of their liberties and the reaffirmation of their loyalty to the United States and of their rededication to the ideals of equality and justice under law in their relations with each other and with other countries; and (2) for the cultivation of the respect for law that is so vital to the democratic way of life.”

Things that make you go hmmm…

Thanks for reading,

Notes:

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-signing-law-day-proclamation