| | | | |Independent labor| | | |party. | | | | | | | 1889 | | | |Two | | | |International | | | |Congresses of | | | |Working-men at | | | |Paris | | | |constituted by | | | |the | | | |"Possibilists" | | | |and the | | | |"Guesdists," | | | |proclaim as the | | | |salvation of | | | |the proletariat | | | |in general the | | | |legal enactment | | | |of an | | | |eight-hour day | | | |of work, and | | | |the celebration | | | |of May 1st as | | | |the | | | |working-men's | | | |holiday. (The | | | |first | | | |International | | | |Association | | | |Congress under | | | |the new | | | |enumeration.) | | | | 1890 |The Trade-Union | | |The first May |Congress in | | |festival of the |Liverpool | | |proletariat in |endorses a legal | | |all civilized |establishment of | | |lands. |the eight-hour | | |