RC & Moonpie Inc.

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In 1938 Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established
the            forty-hour work week, the minimum wage, and bans child
labor in interstate commerce. 

May 1st is Labor Day in America. From Chile to Canada. 

Why those stupid Yanks done forgot they own history. 

What happened when the workers to stop the exploitation of children and
get a decent wage for 8 hours of work and a 40 hour work week? 


The story of the Haymarket Martyrs, and their monument in Forest Home
Cemetery, begins at a convention of the Federation of Organized Trades
and Labor Unions in 1884. The Federation (the predecessor to the
American Federation of Labor) called for a great movement to win the
8-hour workday, which would climax on May 1, 1886. 

The plan was to spend two years urging all American employers to adopt a
standard 8-hour day, instead of the 10 to 12, even up to 16-hour days
that were prevalent. After May 1 of 1886, all workers not yet on an
8-hour schedule, were to cease work in a nation-wide strike until their
employer would meet the demand. 

http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/haymkmon.htm

http://www.aap.org/policy/00661.html