I know it’s probably cheating, but here’s something that I posted more than half a decade ago on the occasion of Labor Day. If anything, I think it’s even more appropriate today, seeing as how Michigan has since become a so-called “right to work” state, and we now how have an unquestionably anti-worker administration running […]
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A big “thank you” to all those who died in the Chicago rail yards so that we might have the day off to grill hot dogs… Happy Labor Day
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, History, Michigan, Other Also tagged Alexander Acosta, American Railway Union, Capitalism, Chicago, company towns, Eugene Debs, Grover Cleveland, Illinois, Ivanka Trump, John Peter Altgeld, labor, Labor Day, labor history, living wage, Marvin Kaplan, National Guard, National Labor Relations Board, Patrick Pizzella, Pullman, Pullman Palace Car Company, Pullman strike, right-to-work, Samuel Alito, strikes, sympathy strikes, unions, William Emanuel 7 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 1894, 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, strikes, the threat of Socialism, unions, William A. Woods 12 Comments