With Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall, he was one of the editors of the 1967 May Day Manifesto, one of the key left-wing challenges to the 1964 – 70 Labour government of Harold Wilson.

# The trade union association ADGB ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund ) was shattered on May 2, 1933 ( the day after Labour Day ), when SA and NSBO units occupied union facilities and ADGB leaders were imprisoned.

Shortly after VE Day, the Labour Party won the general election in Britain.

On 1 May, Goebbels organised demonstrations and parades to mark the " Day of National Labour ," which preceded the Nazi takeover and destruction of the German trade union movement.

* World Day Against Child Labour ( International )

* Labour Day ( Trinidad and Tobago )

There, he became aware of the labour movement and celebrated 1 May – Labour Day for the first time.

* Labour Day

Labour Day ( Labor Day in the USA ) is an annual holiday to celebrate the achievements of workers.

Labour Day has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest.

Celebrating the Australian labour movement, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state and territory governments, and so varies considerably.

In Western Australia, Labour Day is the first Monday in March.

A Labour Day parade in Toronto, Canada in 1900

Labour Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in Canada since the 1880s.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week.

On July 23, 1894, Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson and his government made Labour Day, to be held in September, an official holiday.

While Labour Day parades and picnics are organised by unions, many Canadians regard Labour Day as the Monday of the last long weekend of summer.

Since the new school year generally starts right after Labour Day, families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer.

An old fashioned tradition in Canada and the United States frowns upon the wearing of white after Labour Day.

Explanations for this tradition vary ; the most common is that white is a summer colour and Labour Day unofficially marks the end of summer.

According to the American calendar, the U. S. summer season is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend ( the last weekend in May ) and ending on Labor Day weekend ( the first weekend in September ), more closely in line with the meteorological definition ; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior ( although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory ) and ends, like the United States, on Labour Day.

In Britain, the democratic socialist tradition was represented in particular by the William Morris ' Socialist League, and in the 1880s by the Fabian Society, and later the Independent Labour Party ( ILP ) founded by Keir Hardie in the 1890s, of which George Orwell would later be a prominent member.

Russian socialists formed two major groups: the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, following the Russian populist tradition, and the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

But the British tradition of respecting the private lives of British politicians was maintained until March 1963, when the Labour MP George Wigg, claiming to be motivated by the national security aspects of the case, taking advantage of Parliamentary Privilege, referred in the House of Commons ( under immunity from any possible legal action ) to rumours that Profumo was having an affair with Keeler.

However, the Bermondsey Labour Party continued strongly to support him, and Tatchell worked on convincing Foot that his article was in the tradition of the Chartists and the Suffragettes, and had been misinterpreted by Labour's political opponents.

The General Election on 17 September produced a close result, with initial election-night figures from rural areas favoring National ( in accordance with tradition and previous patterns ); but by the end of the evening Labour had won 40. 7 % of the vote to National's 39. 6 %.

By unofficial tradition, in recent years this has been greeted with a sarcastic comment by republican Labour MP Dennis Skinner.

This seemingly paradoxical swing from Unionist to SNP can be explained for three reasons: the old Scottish Unionist Party's projection as an independent Scottish party opposing a British Labour Party ; the new use of the name " Conservative " viewed as rather English ; and the Unionist-Nationalist tradition of John Buchan and others who had founded the Scottish Party.

It has been announced that the FLOWRIDER Splash Zone will return as an attraction this year along with the regular exhibitions, horse and dog shows, parades, international cuisine, the International Marketplace, live farm, musical performances, midway and the Canadian International Air Show, which has become a tradition at the CNE during Labour Day weekend.

The Labour Party do not subscribe to that tradition ; do not know it ; could not feel it.

Many of the AGS members come from former political parties which had a democratic centralist tradition while others were formerly in the Labour Party or in no party at all.

Athy has a tradition of returning a Labour Party candidate.

After a recent merger of the Meretz-aligned Kibbutz Artzi Federation with the Labour Party's United Kibbutz Movement, Hashomer Hatzair is officially not aligned with either party though, by tradition, it is close in outlook to Meretz-Yachad.

When James Callaghan, the Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom said of his party that " ours is a broad church ", he meant that it embraced different strands of labour and socialist tradition.

His family has a long political tradition: his maternal grandfather Sir Stafford was Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 1947 – 1950 ) under Clement Attlee.

" Writing in the early 1960s on economic inequality in America, Myrdal ’ s underclass refers to a “ class of unemployed, unemployables, and underemployed who are more and more hopelessly set apart from the nation at large and do not share in its life, its ambitions and its achievements .” However, this general conception of a class or category of people below the core of the working class has a long tradition in the social sciences, such as through the work of Henry Mayhew, whose London Labour and the London Poor sought to describe the hitherto invisible world of casual workers, prostitutes, and street-people.

Back at work at Blandings Cosmetics, Jim Royle ( Clive Swift ), a shop steward, knowing the strong Labour tradition in the Hennessey family, asks Beryl to speak at a mass meeting calling for strike action, on Sunday ,-the same day Beryl has arranged to see Frank.

A constituency with a coal mining tradition, Mansfield has been held by the Labour Party for generations.

A seat with a strong industrial and mining tradition, Nuneaton was held by the Labour Party for nearly 50 years until they lost it to the Conservatives in their heavy defeat in the 1983 general election.

The Eight Hour March, which began on April 21, 1856, continued each year until 1951 in Melbourne, when the conservative Victorian Trades Hall Council decided to forgo the tradition for the Moomba festival on the Labour Day weekend.

George Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, ( born 12 April 1946 ) is a British Labour Party politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and early January 2004 ; he succeeded Javier Solana in that position.

In Moscow, the British traitor Kim Philby drafts a memorandum for the General Secretary ( Soviet president ) stating that, if the Labour Party wins the next general election in the UK ( scheduled for sometime in the subsequent eighteen months ), the " hard left " of the party will oust the moderate, populist Neil Kinnock in favour of a radical new leader who will adopt a true Marxist-Leninist manifesto, including the expulsion of all American forces from England and the country's withdrawal from and repudiation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ).

* Baron Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, FRSA, FRSE, PC ( born 12 April 1946, George Islay MacNeill Robertson ,) is a British Labour politician who was the tenth Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, between October 1999 and January 2004.

He is a former Minister of Labour, Solicitor General of Canada, Secretary of State ( Veterans ) and Secretary of State ( Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency ).