In the first congress of the Second Socialist International, held in Paris in 1889, established that henceforth, every first of May would be celebrated on Labor Day, in memory of the events Chicago. Everyone has heard the story. 
On May 1886, some 80,000 workers took to the streets of Chicago, demanding a day 8-hour working. A anarchists joined the strike, independent, organized workers across the country, and in the days following violent clashes with police. Protesting the police action, some 2,500 people gathered in the Chicago market, there came about 200 policemen dead suppressed the crowd after someone threw a bomb that killed an officer. The fact left several dead and hundreds injured. At the movement's leaders were tried in a fraudulent process and was sentenced to hang for Parsons, Spies, Fischer and Engel, the "Martyrs of Chicago."
On May 1886, some 80,000 workers took to the streets of Chicago, demanding a day 8-hour working. A anarchists joined the strike, independent, organized workers across the country, and in the days following violent clashes with police. Protesting the police action, some 2,500 people gathered in the Chicago market, there came about 200 policemen dead suppressed the crowd after someone threw a bomb that killed an officer. The fact left several dead and hundreds injured. At the movement's leaders were tried in a fraudulent process and was sentenced to hang for Parsons, Spies, Fischer and Engel, the "Martyrs of Chicago." The print and broadcast media around the world makes this event review, not to forget the slaughter of Chicago. Chile could not escape to remember this day. At the end of the day, everyone remembers him, especially the socialist countries influenced by past or present. However, it is curious that in the Czech Republic, the first of May is celebrated as the day of love, in the words of the poet Karel Hynek Macha: " pvrní Byl Maj, lásky byl čas" (It was the first of May, it was time of love) . On May not celebrated either in U.S. or Canada as International Labour Day, what that sounds ironic coming from countries where the anarchist movements emerged and workers who originated the event.
However, and here's the really ironic, Chile these days makes little or no mention of facts which, without detracting in any way the importance of self remembered first of May, Chicago, are important directly in the history of labor and union movement in the country, claimed the lives of thousands . What we have heard lately, for example, what happened at the Escuela Santa María de Iquique? 
The twenty- December this year marks the centenary of the massacre that killed about three thousand men, women and children who only took a fair wage. This parliamentary Chile, oligarchic and oppressive labor movement had allowed other bloody episodes like the slaughter of the longshoremen in Valparaiso (1903), the massacre in Chile saltpeter (1904) and took place in Santiago (1905). After Iquique, would accommodate no less bloody events, and Puerto Natales (Puerto Bories, 1919), Punta Arenas (Labor Federation, 1920) or Antofagasta (Office nitrate San Gregorio, 1921). The story tends to behave like a sinister spiral and if the media fail to refer to these events, is in every one of us to keep the memory, so that massacres like those do not occur today or in future generations.
The twenty- December this year marks the centenary of the massacre that killed about three thousand men, women and children who only took a fair wage. This parliamentary Chile, oligarchic and oppressive labor movement had allowed other bloody episodes like the slaughter of the longshoremen in Valparaiso (1903), the massacre in Chile saltpeter (1904) and took place in Santiago (1905). After Iquique, would accommodate no less bloody events, and Puerto Natales (Puerto Bories, 1919), Punta Arenas (Labor Federation, 1920) or Antofagasta (Office nitrate San Gregorio, 1921). The story tends to behave like a sinister spiral and if the media fail to refer to these events, is in every one of us to keep the memory, so that massacres like those do not occur today or in future generations. will conclude with a special greeting to my dear friends from South time, ensembles these days has taken the beautiful task of spreading in the Region of Valparaíso, with masterful talent, the work " Santa María de Iquique Cantata, "composed in 1969 by Luis Advis, popularized by the interpretation of Quilapayún 1970 and in force today with special force. Thanks, guys, for helping to raise awareness of what happened one hundred ago years.
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