{"id":607191,"date":"2020-05-01T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2020\/05\/remembering-dr-ambedkar-on-labours-day\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T17:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T11:31:37","slug":"remembering-dr-ambedkar-on-labours-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youthkiawaaz.com\/2020\/05\/remembering-dr-ambedkar-on-labours-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Day: How Ambedkar Ensured Welfare Of India’s Labour Class"},"content":{"rendered":"
Historically speaking, it was 1st May 1886, when the labour or working class came together<\/a> in Chicago to fight against the exploitation of US industrialists for paid leaves, fair wages, and deduction in working hours.<\/p> Likewise, May Day is celebrated as International Workers’ Day across the world. The day is a celebration of the working class that prompted through International Labour movements. The day has different stories of origin in different countries. But there is one common thing or theme of this worldwide celebration, and that is the ‘working class fighting against exploitation of and the circumstances they are subjected to’. It is said that the first celebration<\/a> of Labour Day in India happened in 1923 by Labour Kishan Party in then Madras. It is on this day that the symbolic red flag, which now signifies the labour movement, was first used in the country.<\/p>