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side note: Labor Day was unofficially celebrated before International Worker's Day happened (or at least that is what I have found)
http://www.dol.gov/OPA/ABOUTDOL/LABORDAY.HTM The First Labor Day The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883. In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country. Labor Day Legislation Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. |
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since I won't be on much (if any this weekend due to medical testing)...I believe this is the link the OP's post came from...in fairness to view everything.
http://flag.blackened.net/daver/anarchism/mayday.html thought this part was interesting though: It is not surprising that the state, business leaders, mainstream union officials, and the media would want to hide the true history of May Day, portraying it as a holiday celebrated only in Moscow's Red Square. In its attempt to erase the history and significance of May Day, the United States government declared May 1st to be "Law Day", and gave us instead Labor Day - a holiday devoid of any historical significance other than its importance as a day to swill beer and sit in traffic jams. |
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Yes we have a one party system in Umerika capitalist and thats it . but I suspet if things get much worse the socialists and communits will make a comeback. the new deal is what stopped socialism in america it evened the field for the working people It was actually sh!tty cars that killed the American automobile industry. 
Why would someone want to drive junk? The problems started long before the assembly line. They're poor products right off the drawing board. That has little to do with union labour. Hi Jax 
hi harry
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side note: Labor Day was unofficially celebrated before International Worker's Day happened (or at least that is what I have found) http://www.dol.gov/OPA/ABOUTDOL/LABORDAY.HTM The First Labor Day The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883. In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country. Labor Day Legislation Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. Are you saying that the commies are trying to take credit for something they had no part in???? Public disinformation is one of the traits of communism. Without it they cant control the people. Another one which goes hand in hand with disinformation is censorship of the truth! 
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Thank our founding fathers and the courage of our military we arent communist!
Thanks Rose
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all of that while on meds...i'm goooooooooood lol
lol fanta...yep...what i'm saying. Labor Day was unofficially celebrated first while that other site tried to take credit. and they are both american holidays anyway |
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Edited by
Fanta46
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Fri 05/02/08 05:53 PM
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Damn Commies
Ok that was cold. I shouldnt put communist in the same group with Americans. Bush is even better that a commie........
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Just barely though.....
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lol fanta hush and move to an alimony state
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lol fanta hush and move to an alimony state Im sending the Pope to visit you........ 
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lol no because madison will be doing the talking lol
hey..i just wanted to give all sides and the whole story |
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Edited by
Fanta46
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Fri 05/02/08 06:28 PM
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I think madman may be one of them.
Hes been awfully quiet in this thread. If it was the Republicans trying to take credit for something hed be all over it!
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Naaaa, hes definitly a Democrat!!
Damn Democrats
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Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States. For approximately the first half of the 20th Century it was the largest and most widely influential communist party in the country, and played a defining role in the U.S. labor movement from the 1920s through the 1940s, originating or helping to originate most of the country's major industrial unions (which would later cleanse themselves of communists with the Smith Act) and pursuing intense anti-racist activity in workplaces and city communities throughout this first part of its existence.
http://www.cpusa.org/ still alive and kicking...
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I think the only history most who post on here know is the high school history. good luck breaking through that barir symbelmyne
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May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day. In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution stating that eight hours would constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886. The resolution called for a general strike to achieve the goal, since legislative methods had already failed. With workers being forced to work ten, twelve, and fourteen hours a day. The heart of the movement was in Chicago, organized primarily by the anarchist International Working People's Association. Businesses and the state were terrified by the increasingly revolutionary character of the movement and prepared accordingly. The police and militia were increased in size and received new and powerful weapons financed by local business leaders. Chicago's Commercial Club purchased a $2000 machine gun for the Illinois National Guard to be used against strikers. Nevertheless, by May 1st, the movement had already won gains for many Chicago clothing cutters, shoemakers, and packing-house workers. But on May 3, 1886, police fired into a crowd of strikers at the McCormick Reaper Works Factory, killing four and wounding many. Anarchists called for a mass meeting the next day in Haymarket Square to protest the brutality. ...The next time you bash a communist, socialist or anarchist..try to remember that it was thanks to the efforts of those groups, then and now, that you as a worker,have the rights and benefits that you take for granted today...
Communism as a philosphic system it's just perfect. The problem is when it becomes a political system. Politics perverts every good philosophy such as communism. The biggest communist and socialist philosopher was the great "Che Guevara." He really believed in communism as a train of thought, and not as a political systems. Sadly, politicians are like prostitutes. They go where the money is. TLW |
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TLW..well said
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TLW..good point and well said, sir.
viva el comunismo...viva el pueblo, viva la patria!!!! |
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TLW..good point and well said, sir. viva el comunismo...viva el pueblo, viva la patria!!!! vamos todavia, carajo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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TLW..good point and well said, sir. viva el comunismo...viva el pueblo, viva la patria!!!! |
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