Saturday, you'll recall, was International Workers' Day aka May
Day aka day on which trust-fund commies throw bottles, torch
cars, and yell "Die yuppie scum!" In tetchy parts of Europe,
anyway. (See here and here.) But in ‘Merica, it occasions about
as much brouhaha as Secretary's Day, which is weird because
International Workers' Day was born here. So in honor of the
United States's not-insignificant contribution to workers'
rights everywhere, we've compiled some of the best Yankee prole
propaganda around with help from Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W.
Drescher, authors of Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor
Posters (Cornell University Press). The first International
Workers' Day was a tribute to the victims of Chicago's 1886
Haymarket Affair, a strike gone terribly wrong that sparked
outrage from France to Cuba. Today, 66 countries officially
celebrate the event. The United States isn't one of them. "A
garland for May Day" by the British illustrator Walter Crane in
1895