May Day, also known as International Workers Day, marks the day in history in which people first started to strike against their employers. They had demands, such as, lowering work days from twelve hours to eight, and shorter days. After many strikes around the world, May Day officially became a holiday. It is celebrated in many countries around the world with parades.
The United States however does not celebrate May Day, we do in the other hand celebrate Labor Day, in September. The reason being that in 1887 President Cleveland feared that celebrating May Day on May 1st will cause riots, this lead to Labor Day in September.
I believe that May Day is important to know. Now a days people should know the struggles that those behind us have gone through, how they succeeded , and how there success lead to the life we have now. Even though its all important I don't necessarily think that knowing it all will make our lives more meaningful. It won't really affect how we live our life from a day to day basis, honestly no one will probably even think of that day until it is celebrated, like in most holiday
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