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Labor Day. Labor Day is celebrted as the last holiday weekend of the Summer But it was originally a day given to the labor unions.

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1 Labor Day

2 Labor Day is celebrted as the last holiday weekend of the Summer But it was originally a day given to the labor unions

3 Industrial Revolution Many People Worked Long Hours for Low Pay

4 Labor Unions Labor Unions were formed to combat poor working Workers Used Strikes

5 Pullman Strike 1894 Pullman Factory

6 Pullman Palace Car Company

7 Economic Panic of 1893 Strike of 1894 started with 3000 employees of Pullman Grew to 250,000 Rail Road employees in 27 states 13 Dead 54 Wounded $340,000 damages ($8,818,000)

8 Eugene V. Debs Leader of the American Railway Union Organized the Strike Jailed for 6 months for ignoring court injunction Became a leader of the Socialist Party

9 Grover Cleveland Wanted to appease the Unions for the deaths in the Pullman strike He proposed and Congress unanimously voted to make Labor Day a National Holiday in 1894

10 Political Consequences Governor John P. Altgeld of Illinois Wanted to send in the State Militia Hated Cleveland for stepping in Blocked Cleveland's reelection bid

11 First Labor Day Parade September 1882 New York City Knights of Labor

12 Labor Day Parades

13 Other Labor Day Traditions Last day to wear white. Start of football season

14 Happy Labor Day

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