Eagle Mountain encourages all Americans to proudly display their American flags on September 4, 2023, when we celebrate Labor Day.

Labor Day is a U.S. national holiday held on the first Monday every September. For most people, it simply marks the last weekend of summer and the start of the school year, however, the holiday’s founders in the late 1800s envisioned something very different from what the day has become. 

The founders were looking for two things: a means of unifying union workers and a reduction in work time.

The History of Labor Day

Labor Day originated in 1894 after the Industrial Revolution in the United States. At the time, the average American had to work 12-hour days, often 7 days a week, and this was just enough to make ends meet. In some states, there were even children working in mills and factories to help support families that were struggling to survive.

These long working hours and grueling jobs caused many union organizers to focus on winning a shorter eight-hour work day. Through strikes and protests, they focused on getting workers more days off, such as the Labor Day holiday, and reducing the workweek to just six days.

Surprisingly, many politicians and business owners were actually in favor of giving workers more time off. That’s because workers who had no free time were not able to spend their wages on traveling, entertainment, or dining out. Shortening the work week was one way of turning the working class into the consuming class.

Don't Forget The Meaning of Labor Day

The original holiday was meant to handle the problem of long working hours and no time off. Although the battle over these issues would seem to have been won long ago, this issue is starting to come back with a vengeance on those who are constantly connected to work in this digital age.

If you work all the time give yourself the day off this year. Don’t go into work. Shut off your phone, or computer, then go to a barbecue, as the original participants did over a century ago, and celebrate having at least one day off from work during the year!

Honor Americans for Labor Day with American-Made Flags

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