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America has Labor Day, and Labour Party, UK has Jeremy Corbyn.
Thankfully, America also has Wonkette-
We didn’t want no commie/socialist May Day holiday, so Grover Cleveland signed the September Labor Day holiday into law shortly after federal troops killed 30 people while breaking up the Pullman Strike in 1894.
https://wonkette.com/622460/a-country-that-hates-workers-celebrates-labor-day
The US celebrates Labor Day because of a bloody clash over 100 years ago that left 30 people dead and cost $80 million in damages
September 2, 2017
The Pullman Company hawked an aspirational product: luxury rail cars.
Company Town, Company store-
Then the disastrous economic depression of the 1890s struck. Pullman made a decision to cut costs — by lowering wages.
The workers ultimately launched a strike on May 11, 1894, receiving support from the American Railway Union.
The tension then escalated when Eugene Debs, president of the nationwide American Railroad Union (ARU), declared that ARU members would no longer work on trains that included Pullman cars.
125,000 workers across 29 railroad companies quit their jobs rather than break the boycott.
Pro-labor Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld refused to authorize President Cleveland to send in federal troops, asserting that allegations of societal breakdown had been grossly exaggerated. But the federal government ultimately sent in soldiers to enforce the injunction.
The General Managers Association was a group which represented 26 Chicago railroad companies-
The General Managers Association was able to deputize federal marshals to help put down the strike.
30 people died in the chaos. The riots and sabotage caused by the strike ultimately cost $80 million in damages.
Thankfully, America also has Wonkette-
We didn’t want no commie/socialist May Day holiday, so Grover Cleveland signed the September Labor Day holiday into law shortly after federal troops killed 30 people while breaking up the Pullman Strike in 1894.
https://wonkette.com/622460/a-country-that-hates-workers-celebrates-labor-day
The US celebrates Labor Day because of a bloody clash over 100 years ago that left 30 people dead and cost $80 million in damages
September 2, 2017
The Pullman Company hawked an aspirational product: luxury rail cars.
Company Town, Company store-
Then the disastrous economic depression of the 1890s struck. Pullman made a decision to cut costs — by lowering wages.
The workers ultimately launched a strike on May 11, 1894, receiving support from the American Railway Union.
The tension then escalated when Eugene Debs, president of the nationwide American Railroad Union (ARU), declared that ARU members would no longer work on trains that included Pullman cars.
125,000 workers across 29 railroad companies quit their jobs rather than break the boycott.
Pro-labor Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld refused to authorize President Cleveland to send in federal troops, asserting that allegations of societal breakdown had been grossly exaggerated. But the federal government ultimately sent in soldiers to enforce the injunction.
The General Managers Association was a group which represented 26 Chicago railroad companies-
The General Managers Association was able to deputize federal marshals to help put down the strike.
30 people died in the chaos. The riots and sabotage caused by the strike ultimately cost $80 million in damages.
