Внимание - март... / Attention! - Month of March...

1 Attention! – Month of March… Spring is coming – give way to spring! Spring is in the air… One thought generates five more thoughts. Each of the five can generate another five thoughts. This is how theses and ideas about what you want to write are begotten. The thought has ruffled the memories... The memories about the events of 1908 when 15,000 women in New York demonstrated, demanding shortening the working day, an increase in wages and the right to vote (in most states, women gained it in 1920, when the 19th amendment to the US Constitution was adopted). The following year, the American Socialist Party proposed that the last Sunday in February be Labor Women's Day . In August 1910, the well-known figure of the German social democracy Clara Zetkin , at a conference in Copenhagen, proposed the establishment of an International Day to Struggle for Women's Equality and Emancipation. About a hundred participants from 17 countries supported the idea unanimously. In 1911, it was first celebrated in Germany, Austria-Hungary, Denmark and Switzerland. The demonstration in New York that started it all took place on February 28. Clara Zetkin did not name a specific date. The first Women's Day celebration in Germany took place on March 19 to commemorate the March Revolution of 1848 in Prussia. Then Women's Day in different countries was celebrated on March 2, 9 and 12, as well as on May 2 and 12. The date of March 8 came to the international left movement from Russia, because everything, always and everywhere – came, comes and will ever come – from Russia. In 1917, on this day (February 23, old style), a strike of workers of weaving factories of the Vyborg district in Petrograd began demanding “Bread and Peace"! – which grew into a revolution. And the holiday went on confidently across the Planet, from spring to spring, with each spring becoming more and more beautiful and meaningful for those