The American clothing industry is now in China. Imagine that. Americans actually throwing up their arms in surrender to the 'cheap economy' of oppressed and impoverished laborers. This is America?
Since when do Americans NEED deep, deep discounts in order to put their children on a bus to school?
By Bruce Watson
Aug 31st 2013 6:00AM
Before the deep, deep discounts (click here) and back-to-school sales, before it was the end of summer and the start of college football season, Labor Day signified just one thing: respect for America's organized labor. Originally proposed by the secretary of New York's Central Labor Union, the holiday was slowly adopted, state by state, until 1894. That year, the massive Pullman car strike ended with the massacre of 30 people, $80 million in property damage, and a national labor force that was furious. In an attempt to smooth things over, Congress and President Grover Cleveland rushed through a bill that made Labor Day a federal holiday.
