History of the socialist movement in the United States Day as the main workers holiday around the world (except in the United States, which celebrates Labor Day on the first Monday of September) and making the 8-hour day a worldwide objective by workers organizations and socialist parties worldwide. Under Socialist Party of America presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs, socialist opposition to World War I led to the governmental repression collectively known as the First Red Scare. The Socialist Party declined in the 1920s, but nonetheless often ran Norman Thomas for President. In the 1930s, the Communist Party USA took importance in labor and racial struggles while it suffered a
On the First Warm Day was long past its heyday, but Joyce became a highly respected part of it..." Eight months after Rosemary Clooney's death in June 2002, an Audio CD and MP3 album on the British Sepia label, "You're Just in Love (with Rosemary Clooney) The Early Hits", a compilation of 25 songs she recorded in the early 1950s, featured "On the First Warm Day" as one of the selections. Sixty years after its initial appearance, the song was rediscovered in May 2012 when the words in the opening lines indicating the month, "on the first warm day in May", were utilized in the