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1969 Sweden Swedish May 1st Labor Day Mayday Pin Badge

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This is a rare gold coloured metal badge from Sweden.
The badge has a long stick pin style fastener and is 1.4cm high.
Featuring the date 1 MAY 1969 and the text OKAD JÄMLIKHET which is clearly made up random nonsense, but google thinks it means INCREASED EQUALITY. which doesn't really make any sense since equality is by definition equal. A better slogan would have been decreased inequality. If man ever discovers time travel then this is a shoe-in for the first journey back in time to correct their Swedish logic errors.

1 May has been an important part of Swedish history since the late 19th century. The day was made a public holiday in 1938 but had been celebrated by the Swedish Social Democratic Party and the left since 1890. The first International Workers' Day celebration gathered more than 50,000 people in central Stockholm. The crowd went to hear speeches by the leading figures in the Swedish labour movement such as Hjalmar Branting (later prime minister), August Palm and Hinke Bergegren. During World War I the demonstrations mainly had a peace message and the Liberal Party also joined the demonstrations. The eight-hour working day and women's suffrage were the principal themes during the troubled times after World War I.

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