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This Labor Day take a moment to remember that people fought AND DIED to make sure employers in the US treated people humanely and with some decency. They fought big companies, their thugs, and the government to end things like child labor, sweat shops, company towns that owned the police, company stores, and unreasonable working hours. They fought for minimum wage and safe working conditions. Remember the labor movement.



"Tomorrow is Labor Day. Labor Day in this country has never been a class holiday. It has always been a national holiday. It has never had more significance as a national holiday than it has now. In other countries the relationship of employer and employee has more or less been accepted as a class relationship not readily to be broken through. In this country we insist, as an essential of the American way of life, that the employer-employee relationship should be one between free men and equals. We refuse to regard those who work with hand or brain as different from or inferior to those who live from their property. We insist that labor is entitled to as much respect as property. But our workers with hand and brain deserve more than respect for their labor. They deserve practical protection in the opportunity to use their labor at a return adequate to support them at a decent and constantly rising standard of living, and to accumulate a margin of security against the inevitable vicissitudes of life." -- FDR