While many of us will be out trying to enjoy barbecues and some time with family this Labor Day weekend, please take a moment to stop and remember what this day represents. Labor Day is not only a day celebrating how laborers overcame bad working conditions and low pay, but it is also a day to remember the accomplishments and achievements workers provide to companies. On September 5, 1882 the first Labor Day parade was held in New York City where twenty thousand workers marched in a parade up Broadway. In 1894, Congress voted Labor Day a federal holiday.On this Labor Day the WayneWho staff would like you to think of a few famous quotes that are still relevant today:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." -- Dwight Eisenhower 1953 speech
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level–I mean the wages of decent living." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool." -- Abraham Lincoln
Be safe and enjoy your weekend!
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Also remember that Ike warned us in a speech to "Beware the military-industrial complex". We should have, but didn't and we pay daily with troop deaths, headlines of Halliburton and Dick Cheney and a President that goes to war with a country that had nothing to do with the man that foraged war against us.
Ike also said...
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing."
Now take a look at the Mideast. We are talking about preventive war in Iran. That's what we did in Iraq. We have now crossed over to Pakistan. Where will it all end?
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