By Jordan Blystone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
America is the land of opportunity, but with opportunity comes responsibility, new experiences and hard labor. Labor is a part of all of our lives, from fast food to foundry workers. This is why U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill in 1894 declaring Labor Day a national holiday which workers are praised and given the day off. Workers are what holds up America\u2019s economy and allows our currency to retain its value. Labor Day also brings in sales, political campaigns, and celebrations to bring America together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Who came up with Labor Day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are many people associated with the original idea of Labor Day but the general credit would go to the founder of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters\u00a9, Peter J. McGuire. Although, before Labor Day came to be, a communist alternative was already celebrating it\u2019s working class citizens with \u201cMay Day.\u201d U.S. President Grover suggested a holiday without communist roots and soon Canada followed since there was a \u201cRed Scare\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why is Labor Day important?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Labor Day is the only day in the year when workers are celebrated. There were many fights for good work conditions and for equal working rights that must not be forgotten. Many people see Labor Day as just another day off, but in an interview with Mr. Perry<\/strong> he was asked if he thought Labor Day was just another day off, he said this. \u201cMy great grandfather participated in the Little Steel Strike in 1937 in Youngstown.\u201d He said. \u201cThis has always painted my thought about worker\u2019s rights and the necessity to fight for those rights.\u201d Mr. Perry<\/strong> also added this on the importance of Labor Day, \u201cLabor Day is always a day of remembrance for plight of those who fought and died for these rights that we enjoy today.\u201d There are many that remember the efforts workers have made to make the workplace a safe and equal environment. It is important to remember why we have the rights we do because some day they could be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jordan Blystone America is the land of opportunity, but with opportunity comes responsibility, new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}