Hi did you know that New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to have an 8 hour working day well this is part of labour day so today i'm going to tell you why we celebrate labour day and why we made this law.
Labour day. So this is why we celebrate labour day it’s Because in the 1840’s people use to work ten or twelve hours a day and there was no law to protect the workers. Then a few days later a man named samuel parnell said that he would only accept a new job as a carpenter if he could only work eight hours a day.
Then later on samuel parnell stood up in the court to fight for his rights and to work eight hours a day then all of the workers stood up to and demanded for them to work eight hours a day. then in the court the judge decided that the workers could work eight hours day.
Also after that everyone celebrated by taking a day off of work and marched into the parades on October the 28th. So when the day was over that was new Zealand's first ever labour day. Now that’s why we celebrate labour
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