AS WE APPROACH LABOR DAY
Please note that Labor Day is a celebration of the American Communist Labor Party. It was founded by Peter J. McGuire, Vice President of the American Federation of Labor.
The need for a Marxist party being imperative, the socialist forces proceeded to reorganize one in Philadelphia, July 19-22, 1876, just a few days after the old I.W.A. was dissolved in that same city. The new body was the Workingmen's Party of America, the following year to be named the Socialist Labor Party. It was based primarily upon a fusion of the Marxist elements of the I.W.A., headed by F. A. Sorge and Otto Weydemeyer, son of Joseph Weydemeyer, and of the Lassallean forces of the Illinois Labor Party and the Social-Democratic Party, led by Adolph Strasser, A. Gabriel, and P. J. McGuire. The Philadelphia founding convention had been preceded by a unity conference in Pittsburgh three months earlier.
So although we enjoy a three day weekend, we must remember that this is truly an anti American Holiday.
WWG1WGA!