Labor Day

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Labor Day
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Labor Day is celebrted as the last holiday
weekend of the Summer But it was originally a day
given to the labor unions
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Industrial Revolution
Many People Worked Long Hours for Low Pay
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Labor Unions

• Labor Unions were formed to combat poor working

Workers Used Strikes
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Pullman Strike 1894
Pullman Factory
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Pullman Palace Car Company
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Economic Panic of 1893 Strike of 1894 started
with 3000 employees of Pullman Grew to 250,000
Rail Road employees in 27 states 13 Dead 54
Wounded 340,000 damages (8,818,000)
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Eugene V. Debs
Leader of the American Railway Union Organized
the Strike Jailed for 6 months for ignoring court
injunction Became a leader of the Socialist Party
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Grover Cleveland
Wanted to appease the Unions for the deaths in
the Pullman strike He proposed and Congress
unanimously voted to make Labor Day a National
Holiday in 1894
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Political Consequences
Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois Wanted to
send in the State Militia Hated Cleveland for
stepping in Blocked Cleveland's reelection bid
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First Labor Day Parade
September 1882
New York City
Knights of Labor
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Labor Day Parades
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Other Labor Day Traditions
Last day to wear white.
Start of football season
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Happy Labor Day