
Common Constitutionalist explores the Left
The [Labor Day] holiday was brought about by the great Pullman strike of 1894. Pullman manufactured train cars in the Chicago area. This strike caused railroad shutdowns all over the country.
President Grover Cleveland sent troops and marshals to end the strike. The result was 30 strikers dead and 57 wounded.
It was this that caused Congress to propose and ratify the national holiday not even a week after President Cleveland ended the strike.
Oh, and in the "some things never change category," the Pullman strike was organized by a union boss, Democrat hack and avowed socialist, Eugene Debs.
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On this day: September 3
San Marino, the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus (301)
Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches Communism Peak - the highest point of the Soviet Union (1933)
Start of gassings in the Auschwitz concentration camp (1941)
The People's Liberation Army begin shelling the ROC-controlled islands of Quemoy (1954)
b: Maurice Papon (1910), Dixy Lee Ray (1914); d: Oliver Cromwell (1658), e.e. cummings (1962)

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