Labor Day - on the right wing agenda?
On Sep 4, 4:59*pm, wrote:
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:44:39 -0400, John H
wrote:
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:06:20 -0400, wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:35:09 -0700, wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:33:31 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:24:00 -0700, wrote:
I'm sure they're got plans to not work, since honoring labor is
equivalent to honoring evil.
The first big Labor Day in the United States was observed on September
5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York. It became a federal
holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at
the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman
Strike, President Grover Cleveland reconciled with the labor movement.
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