Happy Labour Day Brothers and Sisters.

[Hamish McBagpipe]

Marching tomorrow in the parade in Toronto which goes into the Canadian National Exhibition. Then to the beer garden and to the casino to play some 5/10. Fight the power! One year the president of the union I worked for had to give the members ten bucks each to show up.

Here is a rendering of the first labor day parade in 1882 in New York when 20 000 marched.

http://www.seiu.org/images/1882_parade--350_pixels.jpg

Still pretty big in a lot of industrial towns. About 1/2 an hour out of Toronto is Hamilton, our "steel town", big union town and big labour day parade.

I'm sure I'll see you all out at your local marches, right comrades? right? right?

In Solidarity, Hamish.

[sam h]

It is interesting that while many people will jokingly thank the labor movement for this holiday, they do not understand that the labor movement is also largely responsible for the popular adoption of the institution of a respite from work the two days prior (ie - the "weekend"). Cheers to that, and many other things as well.