At the pre-action UNITE HERE rally before the march to the rally fpr voting rights on the National Mall. “Make sure everyone down on Capitol Hill can hear us… when we fight we win!” said UNITE HERE Local 25 president Linda Martin. “They know that the more people vote the more democratic our country will be,” said MWC president Dyana Forester. “This is what democracy looks like, we are what democracy looks like”
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Another Haymarket memorial: “Fyi there are 2 Haymarket memorials in Chicago,” points out Kathleen McKirchy. “One - the newer one - is on the site itself. The one you pictured (Today's Labor History 6/25 UC) is at the cemetery a ways away, as you indicate.” Duncan’s EST: Dan Duncan (Union Voice/Readers Write: The Man On The Line 6/25 UC) is “former head of the NOVA CLC and currently Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Maritime Trades Department.” “Let us each Labor day, hold a congress and formulate propositions for the amelioration of the people. Send them to your Representatives with your earnest, intelligent indorsement [sic], and the laws will be changed.”
Illinois Congressman Lawrence McGann, speaking at the first official Labor Day parade in Chicago. He was Chairman of the House Labor Committee in 1894; President Grover Cleveland signed legislation declaring Labor Day an official U.S. holiday on this date in 1894. |