Who started Labor Day, anyway?
I wanted to find him and give him a piece of my mind. The trouble was, I not only had no idea who started Labor Day, but why he started it in the first place. And so, year after year, I would surrender to the Labor Day weekend with about as much enthusiasm as a bookworm with no electricity awaits the sunset. My investigation into the first Labor Day brought me all the way back to the Labor Movement. Remember the Labor Movement? The Wobblies? Joe Hill? Cripple Creek? I know, I know. You were looking out the window, passing notes to your friend, or sleeping, when your teacher was talking about all this stuff, too. If you and I had been paying attention during History period, we would have known all about Labor Day. But, its not too late to catch up. America wasnt built in a day. It took millions of hardworking men and women to do it. Men who risked their lives in mines and in the lumber industry. Women who sweated in factories from dawn till dusk. If it werent for the founding members of
