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EL PRIMER DÍA DE LOS TRABAJADORES EN LA ARGENTINA

El 1º de mayo de 1890 se conmemoró por primera vez en la Argentina el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. Al año siguiente de ser instituido en París en el Congreso Internacional de trabajadores para perpetuar la memoria de los Mártires de Chicago, obreros argentinos e inmigrantes se reunieron en la ciudad de Buenos Aires. El memory of that day, in A 86-year rally English Prado, J. Emilio note Corbière in the newspaper La Opinión 30 April 1976.

"Tomorrow 1 ° de Mayo 86 years will mark the first celebration of Labor Day in Argentina when about 3000 workers, foreign and native, met in English Prado, an open area, suitable for outdoor meetings, located at Avenida República, Avenida Quintana today's 'long street' of the Recoleta. The rally was announced
for three in the afternoon, but an hour before people started arriving. The first, as historians tell the date were the surveys that had strict orders to arrest the first to speak against the country and the government.
Four bands belonging to Italian Republican centers, composed of veterans mazzin and Garibaldi, disputed the protesters' attention.
At three in the afternoon at about the worker carpenter Carlos Mauli-chairman of the meeting, opened the event, on stage displaying a red flag that had made his young wife.
The newspaper La Nacion May 2 gave an account of the meeting: "In the English Prado took place yesterday the workers' meeting convened for socialism from here following the general movement of European sociaslimo. A man first spoke German. Eulogized date 'whose sun was gathered in their respective countries to workers throughout the world. " The note with little respect for organizers ended saying: "There were very few Argentines at the meeting, of which we are very happy."
The meeting was organized by the International Labor Committee, chaired by José Winiger and composed, among others, by Mauli, Augusto Kuhn, Bernardo Sanchez, William Schulze, Pedro Burgos and Domingo Benítez. Responded to the call of the Paris Workers' Congress, made a year earlier, he had established on 1 May each year as a day at work and where reinvindicaría the legal day of eight hours. That Congress had ratified the date of May 1, chosen for the same purpose, in 1888 - the American Federation of Labor American. This held for the first time, on 1 May in Argentina. "

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