HAPPY HOLIDAY TO ONE AN ALL–MY BOSS IS MAKING ME WORK TODAY, BUT HOPE THE REST OF YOU HAVE FUN.
To labor is to pray. ~Motto of the Benedictines
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BUNNY CUP FROM BARNSTABLE COUNTY AIR CAPE COD 1999 (262030139842) $2.00
In Ebay auction one more day….that is starting bid
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Had a fun Sat. first we went to ROYALS BRITISH TEA ROOM in Lake Mary—great food, owners are wonderful and the atmosphere divine: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Royals-English-Tea-Room/847307041984375
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ~Robert Burns
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NO LABOR DAY IN SCOTLAND TODAY—the UK like the rest of (mostly) of the world celebrate Labor Day in May (first Monday though it is traditionally May 1st in some countries) The US has tried to do that date, but as usual we travel to our own drum and just never have coordinated it. In the mean time check out this story about Sam, bagpipes and Comic Con http://www.inquisitr.com/2241501/outlander-star-sam-heughan-tells-his-favorite-comic-con-story-plus-will-jamie-fraser-where-a-kilt-in-paris-society-in-season-2/
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall
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In June 1894 Congress passed legislation making the first Monday of September a day to recognize workers: Labor Day-
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.”
But ,,,, Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist,…founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic http://www.dol.gov/laborday/history.htm
—but before you nod and say right let me get back to my beer and picnic you might be interested to look a little deeper.
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor. ~Oscar Wilde
the Panic of 1893, (was) a severe financial depression that affected the American economy. Pullman cut the wages of workers by one-third, but he refused to lower the rents in the company housing (which the labor’s lived in). http://history1800s.about.com/od/organizedlabor/a/Pullman-Strike-1894.htm
Pullman workers started their strike in May 1894. (The sympathetic American Railway Union refused to handle Pullman cars, hampering commerce in many parts of the country.) The following month, Congress passed legislation making the first Monday of September a day to recognize workers. (Such a holiday had already been a demand of the labor movement, though commentators have described the Labor Day legislation as an attempt to “appease” angry workers.) In July, President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to Chicago to crush the strike. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-bloody-origin-of-labor-day_55e9ce1fe4b002d5c075e464
What was most amazing was that the Governor of Ill. had not requested assistance and resentfully requested their with drawl, for while there had been some incidents there had been no major rioting which would warrant Federal troops.
However: “There was some clamor in the newspapers and by the public for the company to operate such trains without the Pullmans, but the request was refused. Thereupon an order came from Eugene Debs, the head of the national organization of the railroad employees, on June 28 to tie up the entire system of the Southern Pacific. ” http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/railroad/strike.html which probably went a long way toward the government’s decision.
Cleveland dispatched more than 14,000 federal troops and marshals to break the strike, sparking riots, violence and the burning of train cars. In Chicago, soldiers fired into a crowd of 10,000 people; 25 were killed and 60 badly wounded. Hundreds were jailed, including Debs. The strike finally ended on August 3. The ARU was immediately dismantled and the Pullman employees, gaining no concessions, were forced to sign a pledge stating they would never again unionize. http://www.2facts.com/Popup.aspx?extid=has00001522 Other results were Debs turning socialist and forming American Socialist party, famed attorney Clarence Darrow launching a career as a defender of the underdog and social Worker Jane Adams to investigate it all:
Addams found the idea that labor’s organizing efforts could benefit society compelling. “If we can accept” that possibility, she adds, then the labor movement is “an ethical movement.” The claim was a startling one for her to make. It seems the strike had shown her at least one moral dimension to the workers’ struggle. The negative had become the potentially positive. Instead of seeing labor’s union organizing as a symptom of society’s moral decay, as she once had and many other middle-class people still did, she was considering the hypothesis that labor organizing was a sign of society’s moral redemption.” http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/446999.html
Without labor nothing prospers. ~Sophocles
FOR MANY YEARS LABOR DAY MEAN JERRY LEWIS AND HIS MDA LABOR DAY TELETHON which went from 1966 through 2009 (28 of those years broadcast from Los Vegas) these lasted up to 21 1/2 hours and raise a total of $2.45 Billion over those years.
The MDA announced on August 3, 2011, that Lewis had “completed his run” as both host and national chairman, effective immediately, and that Lewis would not appear in the 2011 telethon.The wording of the release left it ambiguous whether he had been fired or if he had resigned. … Numerous celebrities came out in support of Lewis and opposed to his dismissal from the MDA shortly after it was announced;[25] Lewis himself was mostly silent (though the “firing” was reportedly in regard to statements by Lewis) about the issue, saying that the controversy is “very difficult to get into.”[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jerry_Lewis_MDA_Labor_Day_Telethon
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. ~Joseph Joubert
Labor Day
- The Central Labor Union observed the first Labor Day holiday in 1882 in New York City.
- Labor Day marks the end of the summer season, the beginning of school and the start of football season.
- According to the rules of fashion, Labor Day Weekend is the last official time where wearing white is appropriate.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Thank God every morning when you get up, that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. ~Charles Kingsley
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