9/06/10

This was labor day and so I'm not quite sure if we were suppose to blog for today but I know I need thirteen blogs so I will blog for today. How about some history on today. The first Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1878, in Boston, by the Central Labor Union of New York, the nation's first integrated major trade union. It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with the labor movement as a top political priority. It only took six days for it to be signed into law. Priority I would say.