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05 May 2000 |
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Letters to the EditorDisappointed by May Day Coverage
I found the May Day History article somewhat disappointing. May Day is very important to me as it represents past and future struggles of working people for social justice. I have been attending May Day marches since 1970, and I have been celebrating May Day on May 1st since about 1978. I have also done a reasonable amount of reading on the origins of May Day, and its celebration in Australia. I was somewhat disappointed when I discovered that Neale Towart had incorporated substantial sections of his article on PreIndustrial May Day and Working People from Eugene Plawiuk's very informative website on the origins of May Day, without giving due credit. Surely sections should have been quoted, with an appropriate link at the bottom of the article. The section on May Day in Australia is interesting, but too brief. The inclusion of extracts from O'Dowd's poem and Lawson's poem was particularly nice, but could have been more extensive. For a detailed history of May Day in Australia, the Melbourne May Day Committee published in 1990 'A Short History of May Day 1890-1990'. This is an excellent book, now likely to be out of print. Readers of Workers Online may be interested in a brief article on the origins of MayDay in Australia and its connection to anarchism. This is available at: http://members.xoom.com/takver/history/mayday.htm Also of interest is Chummy Fleming's biography http://members.xoom.com/takver/history/chummy.htm Eugene Plawiuk's excellent website on 'The origins and Traditions of May Day' - http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/mayday.htm And for many other relevant links and information try 'May Day on the Web' - http://www.mayweek.ab.ca/ Takver
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