Labor Day Is A Celebration Of American Exceptionalism, Job Creators, And Hard Workers

[occupied]

Interesting trivia....a lot of the castle-like National Guard Armories built east of the Mississippi in the late 1800s/early 1900s were built because the government became really con-cerned about a worker's revolt.

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People don't even know that the international labor movement was founded in America.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

That's history you don't know so at least in your case the whitewashing of Labor day into a meaningless non-political day off was a success.

No, you want to connect Labor Day with anti-capitalism. There’s a difference between protesting immoral labor practices and opposing capitalism.

 

[Polishprince]

People don't even know that the international labor movement was founded in America.

I don't think that's correct. I was always told that Big Labor started in Sicily and was brought to America by Italian immigrants.

 

[j-mac]

Labor day is a half-assed concession to the labor movement after the once very popular May day celebrations were banned in most American cities.

"In the Soviet Union, leaders embraced the new holiday, believing it would encourage workers in Europe and the United States to unite against capitalism. The day became a significant holiday in the Soviet Union and in the Eastern-bloc countries, with high-profile parades, including one in Moscow’s Red Square presided over by top government and Communist Party functionaries, celebrating the worker and showcasing Soviet military might. In Germany Labour Day became an official holiday in 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party."

May Day | History, Meaning, Traditions, & Facts

May Day, also called Workers’ Day or International Workers’ Day, day commemorating the historic struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement, observed in many countries on May 1. In the United States and Canada a similar observance, known as Labor Day, occurs on the first Monday...

www.britannica.com

 

[occupied]

I don't think that's correct. I was always told that Big Labor started in Sicily and was brought to America by Italian immigrants.

The international labor movement started as a response to massacres of striking workers here and in Britain. It was once very common for police and management to simply open fire on striking workers.

 

[Polishprince]

The international labor movement started as a response to massacres of striking workers here and in Britain. It was once very common for police and management to simply open fire on striking workers.

Actually, it was common for Union Thugs to attack scab and rent-a-cops just seeking to keep a facility on strike in business.

In Homestead, PA, labor goons attacked Pinkerton Rent-a-cops arriving for duty at Carnegie's steel mill in 1892.

The mall cops were shot at while they were still in their boats.

 

[1srelluc]

Labor Day sucks ass....All the gun/pawn shops are closed.

 

[B. Kidd]

Labor Day sucks ass....All the gun/pawn shops are closed.

Not here in Vegas. Where the hell do you live, Amish country?

 

[Polishprince]

Labor unions are what have made life tolerable for average working people. They fought the corrupt industrial tyrants who were out to take advantage of people. Eed still be living in those times without them. I salute the unions.

Actually, you have it half assed backward, initforme.

Big Labor established Union Work Rules which make technological change nearly impossible. Any labor saving changes- not allowed by contract- as they will "cost jobs".

If Big Labor had won the day during the gilded age, we'd still be living at the same living standards.

 

[B. Kidd]

No big deal. Labor Day is only one day. It could be worse like Black History Month.

 

[surada]

Happy Labor Day!

"Labor Day should be recognized as the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators, and institutions central to the flourishing of the United States and its people.

For most people, Labor Day is a rather vague holiday without the clarity and meaning typically associated with other holidays. Yet in its most complete context, Labor Day should be recognized as the holiday that celebrates not only labor, but also the ideas, job creators, and institutions central to the flourishing of the United States and its people.


For starters, consider the tools brought by the colonists who arrived in the New World along the eastern seaboard that would become the United States. These were the same rudimentary tools — such as shovels, axes, hoes, and ploughs — that had been used for prior centuries. But something happened in America that sped up economic development and transformed labor output beyond what had ever happened previously in human history..."

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Labor Day 2022: Facts, Meaning & Founding | HISTORY

Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, under President Grover Cleveland. Cleveland created the holiday during a crisis over federal efforts to end a strike by railroad workers. Today the holiday—celebrated on the first Monday in September—pays tribute to the contributions of American...

www.history.com

 

[insolent imp]

No big deal. Labor Day is only one day. It could be worse like Black History Month.

At least black history has some merit. Now pride month that is just dumb.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

No big deal. Labor Day is only one day. It could be worse like Black History Month.

Don’t give them ideas. They’ll take the whole month of February off.

 

[B. Kidd]

At least black history has some merit. Now pride month that is just dumb.

I love how blacks are often compared to rump rangers. It drives them crazy.

 

[Polishprince]

At least black history has some merit. Now pride month that is just dumb.

Pride Month is designed to memorialize and commemorate those proud LGBTQ+ who have died since the ideology was founded in Sodom back in antiquity.

 

[insolent imp]

Pride Month is designed to memorialize and commemorate those proud LGBTQ+ who have died since the ideology was founded in Sodom back in antiquity.

lol I see the sarcasm there.

 

[occupied]

Actually, it was common for Union Thugs to attack scab and rent-a-cops just seeking to keep a facility on strike in business.

In Homestead, PA, labor goons attacked Pinkerton Rent-a-cops arriving for duty at Carnegie's steel mill in 1892.

The mall cops were shot at while they were still in their boats.

No one is claiming that the Labor movement in America is pure but the good it has done far outweighs the bad. We once had the most prosperous working class in human history. How far back towards the bad old days when workers had no rights does it have to go before people like you say enough is enough? Thankfully the younger generation has a more healthy opinion of what their time and sweat is really worth.

 

[Polishprince]

I love how blacks are often compared to rump rangers. It drives them crazy.

It is amusing to comment to a black person how you can't see the difference from being black and taking it in the Caboose.

 

[B. Kidd]

No one is claiming that the Labor movement in America is pure but the good it has done far outweighs the bad. We once had the most prosperous working class in human history. How far back towards the bad old days when workers had no rights does it have to go before people like you say enough is enough? Thankfully the younger generation has a more healthy opinion of what their time and sweat is really worth.

For them it's worth living in a tent on a sidewalk addicted to drugs.

 

[insolent imp]

It is amusing to comment to a black person how you can't see the difference from being black and taking it in the Caboose.

I didn't see any fags portrayed in the March on Birmingham.