I’d wanted to write an epic post about the meaning of Labor Day, but then I read Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s New York Times, realized that he’d done a better job of it than I could ever hope to, and decided to spend my time instead wondering around Ypsilanti with my camera. What follows […]
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Ypsilanti on Labor Day
Posted in History, Photographs, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged A Day in the Life of Ypsilanti, Arlo, cicadas, Eric Cantor, ferret, frat boys, Grover Cleveland, Huron River, Labor Day, missing pets, Paul Krugman, Pullman strike, working class, yarn bombing 9 Comments
Happy Labor Day… you Socialist sons of bitches
As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national holiday until 1894, in the wake of a bloody strike by employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, an Illinois-based manufacturer of luxury rail cars. It all began when the company, […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, History Also tagged 40 hour work week, American Railway Union, ARU, Chicago, child labor, coal mines, Colombian Exposition, company towns, Eugene Debs, federal troops, Governor Altgeld, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Interstate commerce act, Jackson Park, Kansas Heritage Group, Labor Day, labor history, mail, National Guard, national holidays, OSHA, Peter S. Grosscup, property destruction, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, Rail, revolt, Richard Olney, riots, Sherman anti-trust act, strikebreakers, strikes, the threat of Socialism, unions, William A. Woods 12 Comments