May 1, 1914. Llano del Rio created.

 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.

Anarchist Alexander Berkman speaking in Union Square.  Berkman was a close associate of Emma Goldman and was, like her, later deported to the Soviet Union, thereby returning him to his native Russia, where he found the Communists not to his liking.  He relocated ultimately to France and killed himself in 1936 following prostate cancer which left him in constant Spain.

Of course, May Day wasn't observed everywhere.

Ottoman aircraft, Jerusalem.

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Wednesday, April 29, 1914. The Ten Days War ends and the Coalfield War with it.

1910s, 1914, Army, Colorado, Colorado Coalfield War, Labor unrest, Mexico, New York, Newspapers, Occupation of Veracruz, Vera Cruz Mexico

Saturday, May 1, 1909. May Day.

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.

Walter Reed Medical Center opened as Walter Reed General Hospital.

San Franciscans turned out in huge numbers to visit the Aso and Soya which had been captured by Japan in the Russo Japanese War.

The Aso, which had been the Bayan was sunk as a target ship in 1932.  The Soya, which had been the Varyag, was given back to the Imperial Russian Navy in 1916 during the Great War, was seized by the British in 1918, sold to the Germans for scrap in 1920, but ran aground whiel being towed, and was scrapped in place, the process being completed in 1925.

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Friday, .April 30, 1909.

1900s, 1909, Arizona, Arizona (Douglas), Douglas Arizona, Railroads, Transportation