Mother Jones

HEY! It's Labor Day.  After decades, almost centuries, of the suppression and repression  of labor, unions, union organizers, union members and the like through strikebreaking, assassinations, murders, massacres and forced internal expulsions and exile by organized mob violence and armed force involving police, sheriffs, private armies, Pinkertons and the National Guard, we celebrate Labor for a Day, except for maybe Wobblies and Commies, no doubt even in Lattimer, Ludlow, Bisbee and other such places as well as, no doubt, in all of our "right to work" states.

It is a great day and a tradition to feast on some union made picnic chow.  Here's one list of such products: https://teamsters332.com/union-made/ .  There are others; that list, for example, omits Annabelle Candy Company a family owned firm in Hayward, CA, famous for Rocky Road, Abba-Zaba, Look, Big Hunk, U-No and Annabelle Candy Co., Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent, 314 F.2d 1 (9th Cir. 1962) 

Unions gave us the 5 day week, 40 hour week, 8 hour work day and much more.  In fact, according to George Meany:

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

So, when in doubt,

Exercise Spade Fork was a sinister Government Training Exercise conducted from September 6 to September 27 in 1962. The premise was that a foreign first strike nuclear attack had taken out the White House and the Pentagon and seriously incapacitated most emergency relocation facilities. The NSA would pretty much take over the country with the assistance of the FBI, assorted pre-written executive orders would be signed by the President, including detention of everybody on the Feebs' no doubt enormous target list, given that Jedgar the Nazi was running it, publication of the Federal Register would be "suspended" and who knows what else.

On this day in history:

1492 – Christopher Columbus departed La Gomera, Canary Islands, for "the"Indies"

1522 – The Victoria, Magellan's only ship to return from circumnavigating the globe, returned to Spain

1620 – The Pilgrims sailed from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower

1803 – John Dalton began using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

1870 – Louisa Ann Swain became the first woman in the US to legally vote in a general election

1901 – Leon Czolgosz, fatally wounded US President William McKinley

1930 – Democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed

1936 – The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León was established.

1943 – Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology was founded

1946 – US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announced that the U.S. would engage in economic reconstruction in Germany.

1955 – Istanbul's Greeks, Jews, and Armenians were the victims of a government-sponsored pogrom

1962 – The US government began Exercise Spade Fork

1962 – Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovered the first of the Blackfriars Ships .

1970 – Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York were hijacked members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.

1972 – Munich massacre occurred

1976 – Viktor Belenko defected from Russia in a MiG-25 

1983 – The Soviet Union admitted shooting down KAL 007, claiming its people did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

1991 – The Soviet Union recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

2003 – Mahmoud Abbas resigned from his position of Palestinian Prime Minister.

2007 – Israel bombed Syrian without any provocation

2013 – Forty one elephants were poisoned by poachers in Hwange National Park.

2018 – The Indian Supreme Court legalized all private consensual sex among adults
 

Born this day in:

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it

~~     Fanny Wright

1757 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, general
1766 – John Dalton, chemist, meteorologist, and physicist
1795 – Frances (Fanny) Wright, author and activist
1800 – Catharine Beecher, educator and activist
1802 – Alcide d'Orbigny,  zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist
1857 – Zelia Nuttall, archaeologist and historian
1860 – Jane Addams, sociologist and author
1860 – May Jordan McConnel, trade unionist and suffragist
1863 – Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator 
1876 – John Macleod, physician and physiologist
1892 – Edward Victor Appleton, physicist and academic
1899 – Billy Rose, composer and manager
1906 – Luis Federico Leloir, physician and biochemist
1908 – Korczak Ziolkowski, sculptor, designed the Crazy Horse Memorial
1911 – Charles Deutsch, aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker
1920 – Elvira Pagã, actress, singer, and author
1921 – Norman Joseph Woodland,  inventor, co-created the bar code
1925 – Jimmy Reed, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1928 – Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher
1938 – Joan Tower, pianist, composer, and conductor
1939 – Brigid Berlin, actress, painter, and photographer
1939 – David Allan Coe, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1939 – Susumu Tonegawa, biologist and immunologist
1940 – John M. Hayes, scientist
1940 – Elizabeth Murray, painter and illustrator
1940 – Jackie Trent, singer, songwriter, and actress
1942 – Dave Bargeron, trombonist and tuba player
1942 – Mel McDaniel, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1943 – Richard J. Roberts, biochemist and biologist
1943 – Roger Waters, English singer, songwriter, and bass player
1944 – Donna Haraway, author, academic, and activist
1946 – Shirley M. Malcom, scientist, academic and educator
1947 – Sylvester, singer and songwriter
1948 – Claydes Charles Smith, guitarist
1952 – Buddy Miller, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Patrick O'Hearn, bassist and composer
1954 – John Sauven, economist and environmentalist
1958 – Buster Bloodvessel, singer and songwriter
1961 – Scott Travis, drummer
1963 – Mark Chesnutt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1965 – Terry Bickers, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1967 – William DuVall, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1967 – Macy Gray, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1969 – CeCe Peniston, singer, songwriter, actress, and former beauty pageant winner
1970 – Cheyne Coates, singer, songwriter, and producer
1970 – Rhett Miller, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1971 – Dolores O'Riordan, singer and songwriter
1974 – Nina Persson, singer, songwriter, and musician
1978 – Cisco Adler, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Died this day in:

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”

~~      Michael S. Hart

1625 – Thomas Dempster, historian and scholar
1635 – Metius, mathematician and astronomer
1902 – Frederick Abel, chemist and engineer
1907 – Sully Prudhomme, poet and critic
1966 – Margaret Sanger, nurse, educator, and activist
1978 – Tom Wilson, record producer
1982 – Azra Erhat, archaeologist, author, and academic
1984 – Ernest Tubb, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1990 – Tom Fogerty, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1994 – James Clavell, director, producer, and screenwriter
1994 – Nicky Hopkins, pianist
1994 – Max Kaminsky, trumpet player and bandleader
1998 – Akira Kurosawa, director, producer, and screenwriter
2011 – Michael S. Hart, author who founded Project Gutenberg 
2017 – Kate Millett, feminist author and activist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Labor Day
Fight Procrastination Day
Barbie Doll Day
Read a Book Day
Great Egg Toss Day

Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies

Labor Day

Billy Rose

Jimmy Reed

Joan Tower

David Allan Coe

Dave Bargeron

Mel McDaniel

Roger Waters

Dolores O'Riordan

Cisco Adler

Tom Wilson

Eernest Tubb

Tom Fogarty

Nicky Hopkins

Max Kaminsky

Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?

I may have jury duty today