This was a strange May Day. For the first time since May 1886, when a bomb, a strike and the demands for an eight-hour day set off the Chicago Haymarket killings, the Socialist-minded people of the Americas and Europe neither paraded their numbers nor proclaimed their hopes. May Day had always been dedicated to the proposition that men should work less; this time its theme all over the world was that men should work more.
> In Moscow, Joseph Stalin said: "This year, workers of our country, workers working under war conditions, you have refused a holiday so as to...
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