Labor Day, which is Monday, is the national holiday when we celebrate the contributions of labor.
And labor is defined as the expenditure of physical or mental effort, especially when difficult or compulsory. While my experience is learning golf or oil painting can be “difficult,” I am not certain I would classify them as “labor.”
However, my experience as a supporting spouse definitely agrees with the secondary definition, having to do with childbirth, as “labor” — sometimes hard labor — that only a mother would voluntarily undergo more than once.
The Labor Day celebrations began with the first parade in the U.S. Sept. 5, 1882, when an estimated 10,000 union employees paraded in New York City.
While New York state was debating whether to declare it a holiday, Oregon, on Feb. 21, 1887, declared Labor Day a state holiday. By 1894, 23 states had adopted the holiday.
1894 began with a patent awarded for motion picture films, the Stanley Cup playoffs starting and the first motion picture house opening in New York City with a device identified as being used for “peep shows” (not that I know what that means) before the April bituminous coal miners’ strike that closed mines in the Midwest and caused riots across the U.S.
On May 11, 1894, about 4,000 Pullman Palace Car Co. employees started the “wildcat strike of Illinois.” Wildcat strikes, aka “quickie” strikes or “outlaw” strikes, are strikes that are not supported by the union leadership and tend to be violent, as this one was....
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