On 1 May 1890, workers in the German Reich demonstrated for the eight-hour day for the first time, together with workers in other countries. The public broadcasters’ knowledge program Planet Wissen gives the old slogan of the eight-hour movement, first raised by construction workers in Australia in 1856, in German as Acht Stunden Arbeit, acht Stunden Erholung, acht Stunden Ruhe, eight hours of work, eight hours of recreation, eight hours of rest. In 1894 Rosa Luxemburg wrote: Der 1. Mai verkündet die Losung des achtstündigen Arbeitstages. May Day proclaims the slogan of the eight-hour working day. In November 1918 the Council of People’s Deputies introduced the eight-hour day by decree. Employers’ associations and unions had agreed on it beforehand in the Stinnes-Legien Agreement. In December 1923 a new decree kept eight hours as the norm but allowed many exceptions.