Labor Day is May 1

[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
>Mark Kohut  wrote:
> > I'm afraid I must comment......there is no avid fanship of 
> terrorism in Against the Day. None. The book is, in fact, one of 
> the longest worked-out
> > family epics of the sins of the fathers, the fountainhead 
> terrorist beginnings shown to lead to death down the generations. 
> Violence, as well as other things, kills in Against the Day. Up 
> close or over time.
>
>An important theme in P's works: sin of the father and loss of the
>mother. This makes the American an orphan, a renegade, a castaway (see
>C.L.R James on Moby-Dick). We can view these two cardinal sins that,
>with Gothic and Puritan strain, haunt, the American Romance. . . .

Does AtD nudge the reader to form an opinion about labor "terrorism?" 
If it does, would that nudge be from the period of AtD or the more 
politically correct modern period?
If one enjoys an eight hour day, one should realize where that came 
from. The posters quoted above have apparently never been members of 
a craft union or taken a militant stand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day