Labour Day " was instituted as a national holiday after socialist Eugene V. Debs led a strike against the Pullman Company during the World Exposition in Chicago." Marc Jones, a young Missourian, went with his family to see the Exposition and was so impressed, he forever wondered about spirituality in America. Genealogist and former Administrator of the Sabian... Continue Reading →
Biography of an Industrialist Britannica vers. 11 is typically first-rate, giving more incisive information than the online watered down version, but sometimes, as in the industrialist Henry Ford, they leave you wanting, wondering how they ignored him as he was reaching his height when they started the edition in 1908. Instead for a brief biography, we... Continue Reading →
John Llewellyn Lewis was a coal miner and son of coal miners who became an American labour leader & president of the United Mine Workers of America (1920–60). He was also the chief founder and first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO; 1936–40), now part of the AFL-CIO. He left school in the... Continue Reading →
P. J. McGuire and Labor Day Peter J. McGuire, the general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was the first person to suggest that special day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the... Continue Reading →
