Re: OT: The origin and history of Labor Day

"BarryNL" <n@xxxx> wrote in message
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> Scott wrote:
>
> > "Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the
> > year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime
president of
> > the American Federation of Labor. "All other holidays are in a more or
less
> > degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man,
of
> > strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one
nation
> > over another. Labor Day...is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no
sect,
> > race, or nation."
> > Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor
> > movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of
> > American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the
> > contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and
well-being
> > of our country.
>
> Sounds about right - the workers get one day a year, those who own the
> means of production get the other 364. Ain't capitalism great!

Yes, yes it is. :-)

>
>
>
> (Joke, OK, look, smiley ----> :-)

:-)

>
>
> --
> "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of
> the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas
> Jefferson

Dennis


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