On this day the hosts of labor shout their hosannas. It is a demonstration of a better age, a more chivalrous time, when labor shall be honored and well-rewarded.
So exulted New York Unionist Peter J. McGuire, who originated the idea of Labor Day in 1894 on the joyous occasion of the first U.S. legal holiday honoring the workingman. During the next six decades, U.S. labor grew mighty beyond Carpenter McGuire's wildest dreams. But this week there is little reason to shout hosannas. Instead, at the time of Labor Day, 1957, organized labor is disturbed by its recent past, perplexed...
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