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First Labor Day March
 Institute for Labor Studies

Issue Date: April - June 2004

 
Labor Day rallies is not just an invention of modern-day activist workers’ federations. These rallies have been around for more than one hundred years. The first Labor Day march was held in 1903. Spearheaded by the Union Obrero Democratica de Filipinas (UODF), thousands of workers marched from Plaza Moriones in Tondo to Malacañang to demand complete independence from the United States. Consequently, the federation’s leader, Dr. Dominador Gomez, was arrested for sedition and illegal association. He was later tried and sentenced to one year of hard labor.

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