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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.
A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Labour and parade
The celebrations go on for three days with a parade on Labour Day Monday.
Two girls protesting child labour ( by calling it child slavery ) in the 1909 New York City Labour Day parade.
CAW members marching in the 2011 Labour Day parade in Toronto
Merritton has developed a significant system of community organizations, including the Merritton Lions, who oversee the Community Days Parade ( formerly known as the Labour Day parade ) and Carnival, the Dunc Schooley Memorial Pool, and several other sports and recreation facilities.

Labour and Grand
The Labour Charter of 1927, promulgated by the Grand Council of Fascism, stated in article 7: " The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation ", then continued in article 9: " State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient, or when are at stakes the political interest of the State.
As President of the Republic, Cossiga was Head ( and also Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( from 3 July 1985 to 28 April 1992 ), Military Order of Italy, Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity, Order of Merit for Labour and Order of Vittorio Veneto and Grand Cross of Merit of the Italian Red Cross.
Agnelli was awarded the decoration Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1967 and the title Knight of Labour ( Cavaliere del lavoro ) in 1977.
* Rep. Crispin S. Beltran – the " Grand Old Man of Philippine Labour ".
* Melbourne Formula 1 Grand Prix ( Albert Park Reserve ), 4 day international motor racing event held in early March ; usually on the Labour Day / Moomba holiday long weekend.
He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( KBE ) in 1918 for his war services, and raised to Knight Grand Cross ( GBE ) in the 1920 civilian war honours for his services as Minister of Labour.
: The Labour Charter ( Promulgated by the Grand Council for Fascism on April 21, 1927 )—( published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale, April 3, 1927 ) ( p. 133 )
Raised to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1929, in 1931 Cunliffe-Lister was one of the Conservatives chosen to negotiate with the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald as the latter's government collapsed and was replaced by the multi-party National Government.
His call went unheeded, however, by both the Grand Coalition Initiative Group ( a coalition of indigenous Fijian parties ) and by the predominantly Indo-Fijian Fiji Labour Party, both of which said they were satisfied with the present system.
On 7 March, University of the South Pacific ( USP ) Vice-Chancellor Anthony Tarr found himself fending off criticism from Fiji Labour Party ( FLP ) President Jokapeci Koroi for accepting an invitation to address the public launch of the Grand Coalition Initiative Group on 10 March.

Labour and Newfoundland
This party had been organised by the Newfoundland Federation of Labour with the support of the Canadian Labour Congress, to protest the Liberal government's decertification of the International Woodworkers of America in the course of a logging strike.
* C. R. Fay ; Life and Labour in Newfoundland University of Toronto Press, 1956
He was a member of the Newfoundland Labour Relations Board for over 35 years.

Labour and started
Late in 1942, he started writing regularly for the left-wing weekly Tribune directed by Labour MPs Aneurin Bevan and George Strauss.
Kirwan had just started working for a Foreign Office unit, the Information Research Department, set up by the Labour government to publish anti-communist propaganda, and Orwell gave her a list of people he considered to be unsuitable as IRD authors because of their pro-communist leanings.
As World War II was ending, the Christian Democrats started organizing post-Fascist Italy in coalition with all the other mainstream parties, including the Italian Communist Party ( PCI ), the Italian Socialist Party ( PSI ), the Italian Liberal Party ( PLI ), the Italian Republican Party ( PRI ), the Action Party ( Pd ' A ) and the Labour Democratic Party ( PDL ).
Gollancz's politics started as those of the Liberal Party and Guild Socialism, by 1931 he joined the Labour Party.
The Liberal Democrats, as the only other party with a large number of seats, used to call their leadership while in opposition the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team, but during the last Labour government, they started to use the term ' Shadow Cabinet '.
" When punk started, I think it was very much about Socialism, the Labour Party, the right of the workers, the right to be heard.
The Reform Party government of William Massey dominated the political scene, having secured the conservative vote, while the growing Labour Party had started to undermine Liberal's progressive voter-base.
These policies was started by the 1989 – 1992 Fianna Fáil / Progressive Democrat government, with the support of the opposition Fine Gael, and continued by the subsequent Fianna Fáil / Labour government ( 1992 – 1994 ) and Fine Gael / Labour Party / Democratic Left governments ( 1994 – 1997 ).
Debate on keeping or changing the New Zealand Flag started before May 1973, when a remit to change the flag was voted down by the Labour Party at their national conference.
Five months before the 1997 general election which took Labour to office, Mowlam was diagnosed with a brain tumour, a fact she tried to keep secret until the tabloid press started to print jibes about her appearance.
After the Lange administration's first term ( 1984 – 1987 ), significant divisions started to form in the Labour parliamentary caucus, with Lange becoming uncomfortable with the extent of the reforms, while Douglas and Richard Prebble wanted to push on.
These remnants started an unemployed workers ' movement, which grew quite large, but it was eclipsed by its Labour Party rival.
This relationship ended when the Conservatives started fielding their own candidates, who stood against both Labour and the Progressives.
However, the new Progressive Coalition ( now the Progressive Party ) started by former Alliance leader Jim Anderton won two seats, and remained allied with Labour.
The negotiation between ex-communist Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania started and those members who were against that founded a new party called " Social democracy 2000 " ( now called " Social Democratic Union of Lithuania ").
Phil Woolas applied for a judicial review into the ruling, but as the Labour Party withdrew its support he had to finance it himself, and Woolas started asking for donations.
Preparations had been started on 19 September, and by early October National Labour supporters had a list of 34 seats which they wanted to fight: 14 out of 15 sitting National Labour MPs wished to fight for re-election, and a further 10 candidates were ready to stand in other seats.
He claims that he started work in F branch, which dealt with counter-subversion, including the monitoring of left-wing groups and activists, where he worked vetting Labour Party politicians prior to the 1992 election, later being transferred to T branch, which handled Irish terrorism, in August 1992.
ACT had by this time started billing itself as a natural coalition partner for National -- a sharp departure from Prebble and Douglas ' roots in Labour.
After finishing his education, he started working for the Dutch railways in 1900 and became a member of the Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij ( SDAP, the predecessor of the Dutch Labour Party ) and the railway union.
In 2010 she started volunteering for Ed Miliband's Labour Leadership Campaign, being subsequently appointed as head of volunteers for the duration of the campaign.
MAB first started working with the StWC in 2002 when they agreed to join together a demonstration they had planned to mark the anniversary of the Second Palestinian Intifada with a demonstration StWC had planned against the looming Iraq war at the opening of the Labour party.

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