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Larry Dickman
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you mean like, Jimmy Hoffa?
Miguels244
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The Pullman strike was a big one.
The Flynt sit down was successful because the wives stood between the plant and police so they wouldn’t shoot.
Women's Emergency Brigade | Encyclopedia.com
The Flynt sit down was successful because the wives stood between the plant and police so they wouldn’t shoot.
Women's Emergency Brigade | Encyclopedia.com
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AMEN!! to the labor of the past,my thanks!
card carrying UAW here.
Do ya think trump an swampers will eliminate Labor day?
Gw
card carrying UAW here.
Do ya think trump an swampers will eliminate Labor day?
Gw
Gordon B. Clarke
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Labor Day sounds kinda socialist 
Labor Day - Wikipedia
OTOH a holiday is a holiday and I don't give a damn what it's called.
Labor Day - Wikipedia
OTOH a holiday is a holiday and I don't give a damn what it's called.
Dave D
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Labor Day sounds exactly like a tribute to honor those who have made huge sacrifices under difficult conditions. Gordon don't you think its just a tad disrespectful to use it in an attempt at humor?
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Gordon B. Clarke
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Dave D I've got the feeling you don't really know what is being celebrated and why.
So to your question then "Nope". You do know that it is celebrated in other countries (including Denmark) but more often than not, on May 1st?
Must admit I was surprised to see it was started in the USA.
Labor Day - Wikipedia
International Workers' Day: why do so many Danes celebrate on May 1st? - The Local
And one of the shortest I could find.
Russia: Highlights of the 218 Victory Day Parade in Moscow - YouTube
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plastikdreams
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The unofficial end of summer and beginning of the school year up here lol
Dave D
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Gordon did you actually read the first post in this thread and most of the subsequent posts before you replied? I'm not understanding how the smiley face and comment is related to any of this. Generally people don't use smiley faces when there are clear references to shed blood, death and a massacre. Could you please explain.
As a self appointed authority on the USA I also don't get your "Must admit I was surprised to see it was started in the USA." comment either or was this another attempt at humor? I don't understand how this has anything to do with the original post either. Again, could you please explain.
Dave
As a self appointed authority on the USA I also don't get your "Must admit I was surprised to see it was started in the USA." comment either or was this another attempt at humor? I don't understand how this has anything to do with the original post either. Again, could you please explain.
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Don't LISTEN to him Gordo! It's a trap!
NOBODY really WANTS you to explain. Anything. Too painful by half...
Just go f**k yerself instead, and the world at-large will be just as happy with that as you are.
"Win-Win" yah?
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Hurricane Gordon strikes again.
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Dave, it doesn't!
The OP is about Labor Day as a holiday in the USA.
Gordon is talking about Labour Day or Mayday, which is celebrated on the 1st of May.
Don't know how it was before the EU, but in the old Soviet Bloc countries May 1st was celebrated as a huge ass pow-wow with mandatory appearance and
participation in a parade representing whatever group you belonged to.
Cops as cops, military personnel as such, firefighters, ambulance, students plane-jane workers ....
Each participant got 1 free hot-dog and 1 free beer though.
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Only if their group had chipped in TWO beers and THREE hot dogs in advance as "handling fees" for the omnipotent "State" that presumed to speak for the lumpen proletariat, though...
"from each according to... wotever-the-f**k we haven't already commandeered... to each according to whatever-the-f**k was useless left-overs"
They only pretended to work. State only pretended to feed them.
America's "Labor Day" is different. All folks work. We expect to be productive.
For OUR OWN GAIN.
It's a holiday because we HAVE been productive, and have earned that "day-out" to enjoy what we have accomplished, so-far, that year.
Ain't no, way, no how, any Gordon-munchkin will EVER understand just how f**king PERSONAL that is, most junior of burger flippers..... to most seniour of CEO's.
YES. We did "make that", dammit. However great.. or humble. Do better, next year, too.
Unions do not "own" that day. Political parties do not "own" that day. B'longs to ALL of us.
Closer parallel to "crops-are-in-now, catch-your-breath" harvest festival or Octoberfest than to any Socialist circle-jerk or Communist Many-f**ks-you.
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True: The OP is about Labor Day as a holiday in the USA.
Gordon is talking about Labour Day or Mayday
True: Hurricane Gordon strikes again.
Very True: - Unions do not "own" that day. Political parties do not "own" that day. B'longs to ALL of us.
- Ain't no, way, no how ...will EVER understand just how f**king PERSONAL that is.
Once again, Gordon took a jab, a weak one but a jab none the less at the USA.
Dave
Gordon is talking about Labour Day or Mayday
True: Hurricane Gordon strikes again.
Very True: - Unions do not "own" that day. Political parties do not "own" that day. B'longs to ALL of us.
- Ain't no, way, no how ...will EVER understand just how f**king PERSONAL that is.
Once again, Gordon took a jab, a weak one but a jab none the less at the USA.
Dave
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Wish we could just pipe the National Capitol sewage system over his pointy little-head.
He could then LEGITIMATELY keep on with sayin':
I mean.. the Capitol, right?
No Political Critter believes his s**t would ever STINK, yah?
SeymourDumore
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You've missed out on that fun Bill!
Sure, chipped in prolly more than two or three in advance.
But, at the same time the majority had found more than his/her share of "hey! it's just fell off the truck" items here, there and ... well everywhere.
Survival, that was!
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LOL! Human nature is "in the bone" as the Chinese put it. You look out for yerself, 'coz if you fail to, you are of no help those next on the ripples of expansion .. your family. IF there is a surplus, your extended family, then clan/village, then province, and even a national identity in wealthy times.
Times are sore tough? You and yours. All else becomes FOOD!
"Political Systems" are just the hood-ornaments on the allocators sharing out the misery.
Wealth? Somehow always finds channels without THEIR intervention. Or even sight, yah?
Universal human thing, actually. Central Europe had no patent on it.
Mind, I'd rate Ukraine pretty high on the "Chronic GF Ourselves" list for what COULD BE a rather more well-off entity. Mal-Asia. Indo-hooliga. Tied-land. E-gipped. Eyes-ran. In-do-yah. Bras-ill. ARGHH!-in-tiny-yah.
Then again? So, too, Japan... and the USA...
"Free" Social Services? Government Money? Handouts? Organized and legislated Altruism?
Run for it. SOMEBODY or SOME THING will be collecting!, and they have way to Hell and GONE less than 100% efficiency if even it was NOT simple THEFT!
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