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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 06, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and strikes Holiday Marks 77th anniversary " -. In s z##2 brain child grew into labor d a 4  by Mabou Kritko Davis Chicago labor Day a Youngner York jump nor a brain child which grew to maturity a 1$ Yew rail observes it huh anniversary monday. 7 intended by Peter a Mcgurr to Honor wage worke and la them two con Yeutive Days of rent the Observance no provides virtually a Ryon with at least. A Throe Day Holiday to wind up the sum Mequire first made i proposal before meeting of the Central labor Union Clu of new Vork on May 8, 1881 his dark Al glowed with enthusiasm hid Handlebar Mustache bristled and his neck reddened above his celluloid Collar As he suggt4 a Day be net aside to Honor the wanting people of America. Day Hud been chosen to commemorate aint Soldi and Tat to a he said but not one paid tribute to Tho Ordinary workingmen who from rude nature have delved and curved All Tho Granduer who Chow  to recommended that a monday a designated so workers might have two successive Days of rest and suggested i should be Between Independence Day and thanksgiving so that it would not be crowded against another Holiday. The Clu received Mcguire s proposal with acclaim and chose the first monday of the following september for labor  sept 5, 10,000 persons shouldered ban ners and placards proclaiming less work and More pay less hours More pay and to the workers should belong the wealth they graded up Broadway to Union Square then on to Elm Park for a picnic concert and speeches. For two years the Observance wan a Lorenl a Fafnir. Then the fourth annual convention of the american federation of labor meeting in Chicago in october 1884, adopted he idea. A. C. Cameron a Delegate from the Chi Cago Trade and labor am Embly submit Ted the Resolution that the Flint monday in september of each year be let apart a a labourer s National Holiday and that we recommend its Observance by Alt wag workers irrespective of sex calling or  organised labor was a midget compare to its present strength. Only 26 delegates representing 10 locals attended the 1884 convention but the Al s Campaign to Ink labor Day a Legal Holiday through out the country yielded results within 28 months. The Oregon legislature was the comply enacting a labor Day Law on 21, 1887, but it scheduled the Obs for the first saturday in june and that Date for six years. Colorado legislators on March a Cam the first to set aside monday in september As to la Holiday. By 1804, when Congress mad let a National Holiday 23 Tatta were local observances. Rep. A to mings of new York City so Federal Bill and president Grover land signed it into Law on june 2ft Mecure continued hit efforts in of workingmen and Thel my Bor until his physician order the num. Or of new Par Lytic polio Case inert faced by i2 inc cent the work ending a. 39 to a 159 weekly High of 319. The revised total forthe previous week to 285 cases the Tot was the highest for  week since 1955, the year Falk vain was introduced. A year ago in the comparable ther were 136 paralytic Law. Muar a with 75 in 1w 7 and Burness look Over new son Iri Law i Hirough aug. 29 or there Wrd 2,4so Para own compared with 1,031 last your. Tit Iffie Ibero had beeni�b2 paralytic it a by this time Tutti Ysaac Tho total of nil polio cases re ported in tote week Ndang aug. 30wa 104, compared with 480 in preceding Wek and 285 a year earlier. This year total to Dale ts3�09 ase compared with 2,187 in i Elm Lai period of new dec reported widely watered Illinois accounted for much of the increase in the Eastworth nor a croup of status with As a a 83 Paf Lytic ttys included ome concentration in Cook county. With 10 cases Rock Island county a lilt Henry county 4 and Leoria mid Wynn Congo Oun lie s each the health Aero inc Ald. Org la reported an increase in a South Allendc division with 15 paralytic Case in Tho East auth ettral slate Alabama and ten Mowwe bout Aid in Lewes wit and 36 parabolic Oas i a it Lovely. Four states report of polio Indiana Smied four South Carolina two of Florida 4 Nikon of one 8yr�ciu t i sorted by the a of try staying thereto of us Luteru ii of primitive  Prtrt Plant of no muru. The scientist in rated that Home of these of i Elsm i con eos Vanhly might be pm Are and powerful a to be re Niitani to the poli ions Arth other a untre Mannow employees to tight the germ ii on his own planet. Defly a heft huh a. Thus i said some form Al  method probably would be needed tit stations set up in Sot Ettles ing High above the Eurt tic � be delgt�4 to rid the Interior. Home Ford Bott it any deadly Hatch wow rom or any other planet on the other hand. H4 Hla not unlikely that it it organism evolved in the Hanth environment of Mars May provide � Osa Fulcrod in the cold nerf Prtrt Reg Tom of the Earth v v therefore he coi Linued us 4i contamination of space Olpt to a two Way propos Floit Yhone is Amu must take precautions lest tit contaminate the other planets with bacteria and oth of onus from Earth which m pm Kul off Potek Fialty Shenef trial irrmae f rom tupac before there s a Rhae to Brg them Down to Earth &. S Senate unit approves  if from  to Canada mexi Washington up1 the note foreign relations committee after a Stormy 3h-hour, closed door session approved 7-6 thre Bills authorizing construction of International Bridges Between the . And Canada and Mexico. Sen. Or Wmk a Leusche a Ohio hacked mainly by sen. Bourke b. Hickenlooper to Iowa fought Agni not two of the measures which would authorise private con Panlos to build spans Over the Jolo Grande Between Texas and Mexico and t the third measure. There in Little for three yearn Tih internat Nal Ion. Expand  
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