Blog Post: Labor Day Monday~Sept. 06, 2010

@7:27 AM ~ It is Labor Day today. I am going to head down to the K Street Mall, get some cafe then go out to Safeway. It will be a warm day. I am mindful of staying in tune with my spirit as a wholistic being these days. I am being aware of my general direction and going with the flow in the river of life. One of the masses.

I am going to check out Chalk It Up! Sacramento by Fremont Park where local artists do artwork on the sidewalk squares. This is the 20th Anniversary.

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Origins of Labor Day
Source Link:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/september96/labor_day_9-2.html

The observance of Labor Day began over 100 years ago. Conceived by America's labor unions as a testament to their cause, the legislation sanctioning the holiday was shepherded through Congress amid labor unrest and signed by President Grover Cleveland as a reluctant election-year compromise. Read about the turbulent circumstances of Labor Day's birth, browse NewsHour segments on labor and the economy, and explore labor-related resources on the Internet.

Pullman, Illinois was a company town, founded in 1880 by George Pullman, president of the railroad sleeping car company. Pullman designed and built the town to stand as a utopian workers' community insulated from the moral (and political) seductions of nearby Chicago.

The town was strictly, almost feudally, organized: row houses for the assembly and craft workers; modest Victorians for the managers; and a luxurious hotel where Pullman himself lived and where visiting customers, suppliers, and salesman would lodge while in town.

Its residents all worked for the Pullman company, their paychecks drawn from Pullman bank, and their rent, set by Pullman, deducted automatically from their weekly paychecks. The town, and the company, operated smoothly and successfully for more than a decade.

But in 1893, the Pullman company was caught in the nationwide economic depression. Orders for railroad sleeping cars declined, and George Pullman was forced to lay off hundreds of employees. Those who remained endured wage cuts, even while rents in Pullman remained consistent. Take-home paychecks plummeted.

And so the employees walked out, demanding lower rents and higher pay. The American Railway Union, led by a young Eugene V. Debs, came to the cause of the striking workers, and railroad workers across the nation boycotted trains carrying Pullman cars. Rioting, pillaging, and burning of railroad cars soon ensued; mobs of non-union workers joined in.

The strike instantly became a national issue. President Grover Cleveland, faced with nervous railroad executives and interrupted mail trains, declared the strike a federal crime and deployed 12,000 troops to break the strike. Violence erupted, and two men were killed when U.S. deputy marshals fired on protesters in Kensington, near Chicago, but the strike was doomed.

On August 3, 1894, the strike was declared over. Debs went to prison, his ARU was disbanded, and Pullman employees henceforth signed a pledge that they would never again unionize. Aside from the already existing American Federation of Labor and the various railroad brotherhoods, industrial workers' unions were effectively stamped out and remained so until the Great Depression.

It was not the last time Debs would find himself behind bars, either. Campaigning from his jail cell, Debs would later win almost a million votes for the Socialist ticket in the 1920 presidential race.

In an attempt to appease the nation's workers,Labor Day is born

The movement for a national Labor Day had been growing for some time. In September 1892, union workers in New York City took an unpaid day off and marched around Union Square in support of the holiday. But now, protests against President Cleveland's harsh methods made the appeasement of the nation's workers a top political priority. In the immediate wake of the strike, legislation was rushed unanimously through both houses of Congress, and the bill arrived on President Cleveland's desk just six days after his troops had broken the Pullman strike.

1894 was an election year. President Cleveland seized the chance at conciliation, and Labor Day was born. He was not reelected.

In 1898, Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, called it "the day for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed...that the workers of our day may not only lay down their tools of labor for a holiday, but upon which they may touch shoulders in marching phalanx and feel the stronger for it."

Labor Day: a good-bye to summer

Almost a century since Gompers spoke those words, though, Labor Day is seen as the last long weekend of summer rather than a day for political organizing. In 1995, less than 15 percent of American workers belonged to unions, down from a high in the 1950's of nearly 50 percent, though nearly all have benefited from the victories of the Labor movement.

And everyone who can takes a vacation on the first Monday of September. Friends and families gather, and clog the highways, and the picnic grounds, and their own backyards -- and bid farewell to summer.

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>>>Good Night Family~Buenas Noches Familia~Time for a simple prayer by candlelight and the serenity of sleep.~Namaste, Che Peta<<<

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@dragonsbard Smart lady. Good writing from your whole being. The mind is highly over-rated but spirit flows.

I have reached the ancient age in my life when I know a little about a lot of
things and a lot about a few things.

@YouAre_IT Yeah, I am getting to be quite an expert on me, if nothing else. Then I gots names and nicknames Chicanos

LINK: http://www.weroy.org/ ~DOWNLOAD FREE Documentary Featuring the Words of Arundhati Roy ~911 Coming!

Be aware of mediums of mass propaganda. Be aware of sitting in the darkness with all the lights on.

Technology is a double-edged sword with a fine sharpened bevel ~ hold and wield with caution!

@SoulFya TVs, Computer Monitors and Movie Screens are the Cyclops of the New Milennim ~ Watch Consciously

Fascist Corporate Media Loves to Leech onto Sexy Scandals like Craig's List for Mass Distractions

Funny how people get spooled up about proper citations for quotes, "stealing tweets", etc. Don't you know we're all identical crows cawing?

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VIA @SoulFya: ~Arundhati Roy: A Truth Speaker tells it like it is 7/22/2007 ~ http://youtu.be/KgIRZH5UjBo

Someone said that youth is often wasted on the young. Someone else said age and treachery will outwit youth and vigor.

I am no longer the young pup chasing his tail in circles thinking I am busy making progress. I love aging with grace.

Take your time when you are engaged in physical activity, be conscious of twists, turns and sudden pivots.

Naturally always being hung up on doing this or that aggravates anxiety and high blood pressure. Just be you.

@heidiko44 I prefer to stay conscious, mindful and aware of my being, my presence, my beingness without undue rushes.

Today a Friend on mall asked me today what I was going to do as I sat sitting on a bench on K Street Mall: "I think I will just be."

Or Be Yourself RT @YouAre_IT: Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself. ~Miles Davis

Never 2B read Tweet 2 POTUS Obama: A good communicator is a great explainer. Why in the hell are we in AfgnhanisNAM?!?

I love and read Eckhart Tolle, though he has pretty much stretched out the NOW > http://www.eckharttolle.com/home/

@ileducprof Now that I have overcome my denial and accept my ancientness I have learned to take my time.

@DeepakChopra Avoid divisions ~ The majority of the people of Mother Earth are innocent. ~Namaste, Che Peta

A child's curiousity is of the divine. via mobile web

So true! RT @cosmicdenmother: Prayer is like talking to God, meditation is a way of listening to God. ~Edgar Cayce

@aiman_mania I am touched by your grace. I try to write with my whole being, not just mind.

Wise words! RT @aiman_mania: If someone you love hurts you, cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.

I would have you make up your minds there is nothing that you cannot do for yourselves. ~Eugene V. Debs > http://bit.ly/celHZN

LINK: Eugene V. Debs Foundation ~ http://www.eugenevdebs.com/ ~ A true humane being and active revolutionary!

I am being aware of my general direction and going with the flow in the river of life. One of the masses.

I am mindful of staying in tune with my spirit as a wholistic being these days.

HISTORY: ORIGINS OF LABOR DAY via PBS > http://to.pbs.org/4wooY2
Labor Day History: 11 Facts You Need To Know; http://huff.to/avSsKW via @huffingtonpost about 14 hours ago via The Huffington Post

@Peta_de_Aztlan: Blog Post: Sunny Sunday ~ September 5, 2010: http://bit.ly/anTitn

Let us pray for all those locked up in the prison of their prejudices without discernment.

Let us pray for more heartfelt prayers as petitions to Creator to have our prayers answered today.

Let us pray for our enemies to become our true friends based upon common survival interests as an endangered species.

Let us pray for dialogue between all warring parties to win true peace in a world without war.

Let us pray for loved ones we have lost all of a sudden as they pray for us to be found all of a sudden.

Let us pray for POTUS Obama that he have inner revelations about what is right and what is wrong.

Let us pray for prisoners caged without respect for their divine dignity as creatures of the Creator.

Let us pray that cold hearts are melted by the power of pure love for all living beings upon Mother Earth.

Let us pray for the 3rd World that they know there are good decent Americans who pray for them.

Let us pray for the people of Afghanisnam victimized by the terrorism of the Amerikan Empire!

Let us pray for those cold-hearted ones without feelings to know the power of pure love.

Let us pray for all who feel forsaken and have not learned to forgive themselves.

Let us pray for those who feel powerless, helpless, hopeless and loveless in life for new revelations.

Let us pray for all those who feel they labor in vain to become masters of their labor.

Let us pray for peace in our beingness ~ having joy for who we are in the cosmos.

>>>Monday, September 06, 2010~Good Morning Family~Buenos Dias Familia!~Let us create our day with divine pure love.~Che Peta<<<

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