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Housekeeping:
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Topic:
What is Labor Day and Why is it Celebrated?
What are all the questions about Labor Day that need to be answered?:
What is Labor Day?
What is the history of Labor Day?
When is Labor Day? or What is Labor Day’s date?
What is the labor union’s involvement in the history of labor day?
What is Labor Day?
Holiday said to celebrate the common working man or woman and how they have built the United States.
People take the day off for this, ironically enough.
What is the history of Labor Day?
First Labor Day Observance law passed Feb 21, 1887 in Oregon.
30 states have followed suit by 1894.
June 28th congress passed an act that the first Monday in September will be the holiday.
What is the labor union’s involvement in the history of labor day?
Labor Day is lined with the blood of many workers that died at the hands of tyranny.
Pullman Strike:
“Civil Conflict” between American Railway Union and Railroad workers against Pullman Company, General Managers’ Association, The U.S. Army,
During the panic of 1893, Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages
George Pullman refused to lower rent for workers at same time
Many of the workers joined the American Railway Union
Response from General Manager’s Association was to hire black people (explain racism of the time) adding racial tension
In 1984 , after a peaceful rally for the strike, workers set fire to buildings and derailed a loco, and lots of sympathy strikers began striking across the western states
The federal government, under Grover Cleveland, had to get involved and an injunction was obtained barring union leaders from supporting the strike.
The American Railway Union ignored, so troops were called to enforce the injunction.
When a general Union Strike was called by Eugene Debs, president of the American Railway Union, but the other Unions opposed it.
Thousands of U.S. Marshals and 12000 U.S. Army troops were sent to stop the strike, because they wanted the mail running again.
When you send troops and wage war on angry people, they get more angry and try to fight back!
30 Workers were killed and 57 wounded at the hands of the us military and us marshals
What did the media, have to say?:
Of course they sided with government and ran smear campaigns against the boycotters
At the end of the strike:
Debs was arrested, and got six months in prison
When this happened Grover Cleveland had to stop the potential riots, so congress quickly and unanimously signed within six days of the end of the strike.
They didn’t want more strikes popping up.
After the fact, A national commission was appointed to investigate the strike, and found Pullman’s party and the operations of his town to blame for the strike.
They annexed his town to Chicago.
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Housekeeping:
If you don’t know where to start in prepping, check out my resource page at theprepperpodcast.com/gettingstarted.
It is National Preparedness Month, what are you doing to prepare? Hopefully that involves listening to me.
Don’t forget to give me a review at theprepperpodcast.com/itunes or theprepperpodcast.com/stitcher and you could win a consulting call with me.
We will be doing the St. Jude heat in the Warrior Dash, because it’s not worth doing unless we raise some money for charity. Go to http://theprepperpodcast.com/warrior2015 to donate. Our minimum goal is $600 total, or $300 for each my wife and me.
Topic:
What is Labor Day and Why is it Celebrated?
What are all the questions about Labor Day that need to be answered?:
What is Labor Day?
What is the history of Labor Day?
When is Labor Day? or What is Labor Day’s date?
What is the labor union’s involvement in the history of labor day?
What is Labor Day?
Holiday said to celebrate the common working man or woman and how they have built the United States.
People take the day off for this, ironically enough.
What is the history of Labor Day?
First Labor Day Observance law passed Feb 21, 1887 in Oregon.
30 states have followed suit by 1894.
June 28th congress passed an act that the first Monday in September will be the holiday.
What is the labor union’s involvement in the history of labor day?
Labor Day is lined with the blood of many workers that died at the hands of tyranny.
Pullman Strike:
“Civil Conflict” between American Railway Union and Railroad workers against Pullman Company, General Managers’ Association, The U.S. Army,
During the panic of 1893, Pullman Palace Car Company cut wages
George Pullman refused to lower rent for workers at same time
Many of the workers joined the American Railway Union
Response from General Manager’s Association was to hire black people (explain racism of the time) adding racial tension
In 1984 , after a peaceful rally for the strike, workers set fire to buildings and derailed a loco, and lots of sympathy strikers began striking across the western states
The federal government, under Grover Cleveland, had to get involved and an injunction was obtained barring union leaders from supporting the strike.
The American Railway Union ignored, so troops were called to enforce the injunction.
When a general Union Strike was called by Eugene Debs, president of the American Railway Union, but the other Unions opposed it.
Thousands of U.S. Marshals and 12000 U.S. Army troops were sent to stop the strike, because they wanted the mail running again.
When you send troops and wage war on angry people, they get more angry and try to fight back!
30 Workers were killed and 57 wounded at the hands of the us military and us marshals
What did the media, have to say?:
Of course they sided with government and ran smear campaigns against the boycotters
At the end of the strike:
Debs was arrested, and got six months in prison
When this happened Grover Cleveland had to stop the potential riots, so congress quickly and unanimously signed within six days of the end of the strike.
They didn’t want more strikes popping up.
After the fact, A national commission was appointed to investigate the strike, and found Pullman’s party and the operations of his town to blame for the strike.
They annexed his town to Chicago.