History of Myanmar's labour movement (32/505)

This post presents page 32 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

လက်ဝါးကြီးအုပ် ။ to monopolise
ရှေ့ပြေး ။ precursor; harbinger
အကြင်နာ ။ compassion
ငှားရမ်း ။ to hire
မူးမော် ။ to feel dizzy and sick
လဲပြို ။ to fall down, collapse
အနာတရ ။ (n.) hurt
အခြင်းအရာ ။ state of affairs
စုံထောက် ။ detective
စွန့်စား ။ to take a risk, venture
အတိုင်းအတာ ။ extent, magnitude

Translation:

...and preserve [the tradition of May Day]. By perversely designating the historical 1st of May as Children's Health Day and the first Monday of September as Workers' Day, the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations and the world's hegemonic American capitalist government similarly no longer use the terminology of May Day.

The precursor to the history of May Day is as follows. Beginning around the start of the 19th century industrial works in America gradually developed and employers heartlessly made workers work not only from dawn to dusk, but the daily work time was from 14 hours to 20 hours. As a result of being made to work for such a long time with extreme exhaustion and without rest, there were daily incidents such as fainting, injuries, and frequent deaths among the many women and children workers at the workplace. Due to the agitation of some workers who could not accept that situation the factory workers formed many kind of workers' groups and inasmuch as they were clever and strong they could maintain and protect the opportunities they got as a result. At that time, workers' associations did not have the right to freely establish according to the law and they regularly faced threats, arrests, expulsions from work and such dangers from employers, the government, detectives and the police. With the experiences that the workers' associations got by forming and breaking up, breaking up and forming over a period of many years they gradually became strong through progressive and risky hard work. When demands like a reduction in work hours, an increase in wages, reform of workplace conditions, the right to freely establish labour unions spread out across the whole country according to the extent of the workers associating in unity, in 1806 Philadelphia...