Thanks, Amos. Many people around the globe don't realize that the Haymarket debacle in Chicago on May 1, 1886 is the reason May 1 is set asside in almost every country (except the US) to honor labor. The eight-hour day finally became a reality in the US in 1935; not so much because of any sense of justice but because the country was in the depths of the Great Depression and the eight-hour day was expected to help expand employment.

      - Mark