Posted on 09/02/2019 3:50:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Seemingly every year, some prominent conservative goes out of his way to contemptuously mock the U.S.-recognized federal holiday known as Labor Day. The general rationale for such scorn is that Labor Day came into being and, to some extent, still exists to glorify and harken us back to the once-dominant labor movements of yore. Labor Day, the narrative goes, was a capitalism-undermining governmental fabrication that bestowed unnecessary social capital and legitimacy upon the restive, and oftentimes outright violent, unionized forces of the proletariat.
Play Video It is true that sometimes, shibboleths and outmoded orthodoxies require fresh, innovative thinking. But it is also the case that the general conservative disdain for Labor Day is not a particularly good example of that. This "holiday" deserves all the derision it can possibly receive.
Simply put, Labor Day is indeed an anti-capitalism, anti-economic growth federal "holiday" born out of the ashes of the late 19th century's societally ruinous labor movement. It is a manifestly stupid socialist "holiday" and conservatives are wholly justified to make fun of it.
While the precise origins of how Labor Day came to be recognized as a federal holiday in 1894 are subject to historical debate, it is uncontested that various cogs of Big Labor served as the driving force. According to one version of the history, Central Labor Union (CLU) Secretary Matthew Maguire first proposed the federalization of the holiday after the CLU successfully held a pan-organizational parade of labor organizations in New York City on September 5, 1882. According to a different version of the history, American Federation of Labor Vice President P.J. McGuire initially proposed the federalized holiday to the CLU as a means of publicly demonstrating and flaunting Big Labor's institutional might.
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Hey Josh, some things aren't worth fighting, and this is one of them.
Dont hurt them Hammer.
I have never done anything to celebrate labor on Labor Day or any other day. As usual, I spent the day laboring around the house. I tore out my basement windows and replaced them with glass blocks.
Labor Day weekend is the start of college football season. And those of us who work for a living need a day off to help cope with the tiredness of the dog days of summer. It is also near the start of school for the kids and the turmoil of having to send the kids back to the educational institutions. So maybe we all need to be replaced by robots so there will not be human beings who get tired. Oh yeah, the robots revolt and replace the management types with robots. Maybe we just keep the humans and let them have a late summer day off.
Careful or they’ll replace it with some muzzie or queer (or combination) POS day.
Labor Day is for gun discounts on line.
Correct. Especially since it has such a timely position in the rhythm of the year and the SJWs are such petty activists about other holidays that we might as well not stoop to their level on this one.
I'm fine with Labor Day.
So we should be more like the collectivist Euroweenie welfare states?
The holiday presumes that business owners and managers don’t labor, when they usually put in much longer than a 40 hour week. It also denigrates the role of savings, risk-taking, and investment in the creation of wealth. While Republican candidates should not run against the holiday, the battle can be fought intellectually in forums where such battles take place.
Picked up a nice utility trailer on sale during labor day. But I’m non-union, and I live in a right to work state so Labor Day doesn’t really mean anything to me other than a sale or two. When I was young it was the day before the storm, i.e. going back to school.
I know, it's such a joke. I've already worked 25 hours this week. Think my customers care?
Yes, things were awesome for workers at steel plants in the early 1900’s.
Young children should work in coal mines as well.
You Can’t Touch This?
You need to get word out to the Trump campaign.
Airplanes will fly banners over beaches in five cities in critical swing states — Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Virginia Beach, Virginia — on Labor Day afternoon that say “Trump-Pence thanks our great American workers.”
I wouldn’t have a big problem if what was going on here in the U. S. was simply honoring the people who keep things rolling in the nation, if it weren’t for the Leftists, Union leadership, and otherwise.
It’s a real shame everything the Left touches gets soiled.
They try to twist this into some holiday celebrating the worker’s paradise, obviously a nod to totalitarian Socialist/Communist nations.
If you see a large Labor Day parade, you’re likely to see the usual suspects on posters trotted out to advertise the wonders of those failed governing models. Wonders alright...
Replace with a “Right to Work” holiday, celebrating the American worker free from the shackles of communist/socialist/criminal Unions.
Not everything is a nail, Hammer.
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