Ford Motors introduced the 40 hour workweek into American industry. They reduced what had been a 48 hour workweek to that level, with no reduction in pay.
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It was Canadian pediatrician David Murray Crowe who became aware that the addition of sodium iodide or potassium iodide to salt could safely remedy the problem of iodine deficiency that was a leading cause of thyroid problems.
Benz und Companie and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft combined operations, but had not yet quite merged.
May Day demonstrations occured across the US.
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Nixon canned White House Counsel John Dean and requested the resignations of H.R. Halderman, his Chief of Staff, John Ehrlichman, is domestic affairs advisor, and Richard Kleindienst, his Attorney General. All due tothe Watergate Scandal.
Things were clearly not going well.
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The British Trade Union Congress called a day long, Labour Day, work stoppage which was honored by 1,600,000 workers in order to protest the government's anti inflation policies.
Japan repaid $175,000,000 in food assistance aid funds which were extended during the post World War Two occupation of the country. The payment was made in one lump sum at the request of the US, which needed the money due to its growing concern over the imbalance in deficit payments.
Sweden's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister accused President Nixon of violating the Paris Peace Accords and of bombing refugees in Cambodia in May Day speeches.
A socialist communal community was established in Los Angeles County, California as Llano del Rio. It only existed until 1918 when political dissention tore it apart, and a new colony was formed, with less success, in Louisiana.
While having a very brief existence, its farming enterprises were remarkably successful.
The entire experiment was interesting, and in some ways it anticipated Mondragon, which would be founded on distributist principals in 1956. Mondragon has been quite successful, and that example may provide insight to the deficiencies of small "s" socialism in comparison to distributism.
That Llano del Rio would be founded on May Day, 1914, isn't too surprising. The entire first quarter of the 20th Century was full of all sorts of radical movements (and it's noteworthy that distributism really gained steam later). This day say the typical May Day protests in big US cities.
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A major parade protesting child labor, and generally celebrating the cause of labor, was held in New York City.
The parade had a heavily ethnic character to it, and the day was regarded as "Labor Day", before that holiday was officially created as an American one in contrast to May Day.
San Franciscans turned out in huge numbers to visit the Aso and Soya which had been captured by Japan in the Russo Japanese War.
