Labor Day
If you are a US resident I hope you enjoy this panicked and unsuccessful attempt to salvage the Democratic nomination for President by Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th President. Having sent in Federal troops and marshals to break the Pullman Strike, Grover thought he could win back support from labor by giving them their own holiday before the bodies of the workers killed by said troops and marshals were cold in the ground, and to preempt the possibility of labor declaring May 1st, the commemoration of the Haymarket affair, a day for labor action.
When I was young, Labor Day was the last day of summer vacation from school, but now schools start in mid-August, so it’s just a long weekend filled with annoying drunken boaters clogging up my little street with their trailers.
It would have been nice if the current administration had at least managed to fill the vancancies on the NLRB by Labor Day, but that would have required leadership, a quality sadly lacking in DC at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue.
