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Nedavno gledala Ken Burnsov "Dust Bowl" 

 

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British soldier protecting himself from the rain under turned over tank in Italy, 1944.

 

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The Illinois National Guard outside of the Arcade building during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, 1894.

 

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Labor Day has its roots right here in Chicago. It started with George M. Pullman, an American industrialist who founded the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1867 to manufacture luxury passenger railcars. In 1880, Pullman developed the Town of Pullman in what is now the city of Chicago to provide a place where his employees could work and live productive and healthy lives. Pullman Town, as it came to be known, was America’s first planned industrial town and represented a dramatic departure from the overcrowded, makeshift, and unsanitary living conditions often found in 19th century working-class neighborhoods.

The rest, as it goes, is history. Responding to an economic decline that began in 1893, George Pullman cut wages without reducing rent, and his employees launched the now-famous “Pullman Strike” that spread across the railroad industry, interrupting national rail and mail service and causing a nationwide dialogue on workers’ rights and conditions. In 1894, the same year as the Pullman Strike, Congress unanimously passed a national Labor Day.

That history is still alive today with a movement to create Chicago’s first national park in the Pullman Historic District, further heightening the important stories of labor–including one of the country’s first African-American unions. The stories of Pullman are American stories. It is a story of hard work, immigration, race and class, wealth and poverty, and a struggle for justice.