In the history of the workers` movement in India, 15 February 1969 is a memorable date. On this day, production commenced in Kerala Dinesh Beedi (KDB) Workers` Cooperative Society located in Kannur, a small city in the Malabar region of Kerala.
Read MoreKilvenmani got worldwide attention on Christmas Day in 1968 when 44 Dalit agricultural workers and their family members, including women, children and old men, were brutally murdered in the village in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu. The victims were locked up in a small hut and burned alive by upper caste landlords of the area.
While in most part of the world, May Day (1st May) is celebrated as International Labour Day, to honour the workers and their contributions to the society, in the United States and Canada the first Monday in September is being observed for the same purpose.
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