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LABOR DAY: Today is the day we remember those who fought for fair labor laws. Keep in mind, there was an actual WAR, fought right here in the USA , less than 100 years ago, between corporate power and workers.
If you don't know the history, I suggest you spend a few minutes reading.
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.
The massacre resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 25 people; sources vary but all sources include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, lasting from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).
The Columbine Massacre, sometimes called the Columbine Mine Massacre, occurred in 1927, in the town of Serene, Colorado. A fight broke out between Colorado state police and a group of striking coal miners, during which the unarmed miners were attacked with machine guns. It is unclear whether the machine guns were used by the police or by guards working for the mine. Six strikers were killed, and dozens were injured.
The series of incidents that have most frequently been referred to as the Colorado Labor Wars involved a struggle between the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and the mine operators, particularly the Cripple Creek Mine Owners' Association (CCMOA), during the period from 1903 to 1904. Like so many other fights between the miners and the owners of the mines, this was a brutal and bloody period in Colorado's history. A nearly simultaneous strike in Colorado's northern and southern coal fields was also met with a military response by the Colorado National Guard.
The Herrin Massacre took place in June 1922 in Herrin, Illinois. Three union miners (Jordie Henderson, Joseph Pitkewicius and one other) were killed in a strike-related confrontation on June 21. The following day, 19 of fifty strikebreakers and union guards were killed, many of them in a brutal way. A twentieth victim from the non-union group would later be killed, bringing the death count to twenty-three.
The Lattimer Massacre was the violent deaths of 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897. The miners, mostly of Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian and German ethnicity, were shot and killed by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse. Scores more workers were wounded. The Lattimer massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW).
The Bay View Massacre (sometimes also referred to as the Bay View Tragedy) was the culmination of events that began on Saturday May 1, 1886 when 7,000 building-trades workers joined with 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding an eight-hour work day.
Look in the right hand corner of your CD page and it says, "Happy Labor Day"........I think for most it's just another day of vacations and barbeques.
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet, those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."
LABOR DAY: Today is the day we remember those who fought for fair labor laws. Keep in mind, there was an actual WAR, fought right here in the USA , less than 100 years ago, between corporate power and workers.
If you don't know the history, I suggest you spend a few minutes reading.
I was thinking about this this morning - how we are always reminded on Memorial Day what the true meaning of the day is supposed to be but so many forget that Labor Day also has meaning beyond the barbecues and getting the kids back to school.
100 years ago they could not have seen that labor was going to commit suicide via public pension entitlement demands and corrupt union bosses tied to the DNC. And so it goes the Democrat presidents like Carter and Clinton sold out labor via international trade agreements and treaties.
Look in the right hand corner of your CD page and it says, "Happy Labor Day"........I think for most it's just another day of vacations and barbeques.
Unfortunately you're right, and most american's don't know, nor care about what the meaning of holidays are besides a day off of work.
Labor day is a very important day for the hard working americans that fought back against the evil corporate masters and their slave labor conditions. Each and every one of those hard working americans are to be honored this day
Living in a right to work state, unions are rare here. I have, however, worked union jobs and belonged to 3 different unions throughout my careeer.
Even though I do not have to join a union to work, I do realize that many of the benefits I enjoy came about because of unions and through the blood and suffering of many b4 there were any workplace standards.
How many would like to go back to the conditions that existed b4 unions? Even though some claim they have gotten too powerful or uncompromising, they DID play an important part in the development of higher living standards for the middle and lower classes.
All one has to do is look at the working conditions in China now to be thankful that this movement did take place in the US.
And the GOP's plans for America would take us right back to the same conditions which created those labor wars in the first place. Unrestrained greed.
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