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Labor Day
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Labor Day is celebrted as the last holiday weekend of the SummerBut 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 1893Strike of 1894 started with 3000 employees of PullmanGrew to 250,000 Rail Road employees in 27 states13 Dead 54 Wounded$340,000 damages ($8,818,000)
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Eugene V. Debs
Leader of the American Railway UnionOrganized the StrikeJailed for 6 months for ignoring court injunctionBecame a leader of the Socialist Party
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Grover Cleveland
Wanted to appease the Unions for the deaths in the Pullman strikeHe 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 IllinoisWanted to send in the State MilitiaHated Cleveland for stepping inBlocked 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