Labor Day and the Foundation for the United Socialist States of Amerika

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As the nation observes Labor Day in 2022, Eugene V. Debs must be looking on from Hell and should be very proud of the socialist advance and insidious influence upon the political realms of the United States. Many Americans are only beginning to awaken to the realization that the steady Socialist investment of energy, money and time has paid off after only 120 years. One has to admit that the Socialists have exercised great patience, as well as great diligence, in their long march to becoming a dominant force  in American politics.  Debs was quite likely the most important American socialist in U.S. history. He was a labor organizer and powerful union leader who ran for U.S. president on the Socialist Party platform five times: 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and in 1920. His involvement and instigation of the infamous Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company strike launched him into national prominence. This strike led to deadly labor union initiated violence and serious property destruction that was even condemned by other labor unions. It also led to Labor Day.

Eugene V. Debs led his American Railway Union into a strike against George Pullman's Pullman Palace Car Company in the hot summer months of 1894, in the midst of the worst economic Depression prior to the Great Depression. The ARU strike spread from Chicago to St. Louis and quickly swept through the entire country like one of California's wildfires in dry summer heat. At its peak, the ARU strike exploded to include 250,000 workers across 27 states and crippled the nation's rail transportation. At the time, the AFL and Samuel Gompers, as well as other various Railroad brotherhoods, opposed this heavy-handed strike.  Sadly, before the strike officially ended, approximately 30 people, including 13 strikers, had been killed. In all, 57 people had been injured or wounded. Mobs caused about $340,000 (equivalent to roughly $80 million today) of property damage. The vanilla version of the history of Labor Day often sanitizes the depth of such violence and destruction that Big Labor was capable of even back in 1894. However, at the time it opened the eyes of many politicians to the serious lengths to which such organized unions would go to in order to accomplish their objectives.  This massive and destructive strike was crushed by President Grover Cleveland sending Federal troops into the Chicago area. Ironically, on the 4th of July in 1894, Democrat Cleveland deployed 12,000 U.S. Army troops to end the violent clashes between the strikers and local authorities and to restore order. On July 6th, a violent mob stoned a train, killing the engineer and injuring many passengers. The violence spread to many cities and the public became worried about the chaos. Fortunately, it was not too long before the Army managed to take control of the unruly mobs.  Debs and three additional union leaders were arrested on July 10th for interfering with the delivery of the U.S. mail. Eventually, the Army could withdraw by July 19th. Yet, in just six days of the strike's end and the situation under control, President Cleveland signed a bill that recognized Labor Day as an official U.S. holiday. The bill had been rushed through Congress with bipartisan support and was unanimously approved. 

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Chicago was a hotbed of Socialist and Communist organizing activity

While some historians have made the claim that Cleveland attempted to use the Labor Day legislation to help his efforts to win re-election by mollifying Big Labor, they neglect the point that the election that year was for members of Congress. Cleveland had stood firm on what he thought was right: the protection of the American people from the violence of the unions, and the stability and trust in the legal flow of U.S. mail. This dramatic incident essentially represents a turning point in U.S. history. President Cleveland, like Democrat Truman later, took a strong stand against organized labor and had committed a political "cardinal sin." Democrats were scared to death they would pay the price. Democrats in the 53^rd Congress rushed a bill to the floor that had been languishing in a pile of potential legislation for some time. The bill was rushed through, gained Republican support, and was unanimously approved. President Cleveland, a good Democrat, cooperated with his Party's urgency and signed the Labor Day bill. Yet, Democrats could not tolerate political sins; like Truman, he was ostracized by his own Party. In the aftermath of that turbulent summer of 1894, Grover Cleveland became the goat  of the Party. Especially, Democrat John Altgeld, the governor of Illinois, and Democrat John Hopkins, the mayor of Chicago, were outraged when the president sent troops into Chicagoland. Being way too conservative for the Democrat Party, and unwilling to allow Big Labor to have its way, Cleveland's hope for re-election evaporated. He had angered Big Labor, thus angering a majority of Democrats. Despite having restored order and successfully taking responsibility to end one of the most violent strikes in U.S. history that had affected the welfare of American citizens, it didn't matter. Democrats were more worried about votes.  The date for Labor Day was set for the first Monday in September, although there had been discussion about selecting May 1 because certain Socialist elements in the labor movement hoped to celebrate the holiday on International Workers' Day. However, Cleveland succeeded in bucking his Party and getting the date switched from May 1.  He was concerned that observing Labor Day in May would be linked to even more radical Socialist and Communist elements that had rallied together on May 1, 1894 to commemorate the Haymarket Square Riot, which had also taken place in Chicago during his previous administration. He was dimly aware, even then, Chicago was a hotbed of Socialist and Communist organizing activity.

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Big Labor's tampering with the 2020 election

Since 1900, Socialists have morphed into many organizations, with different names and faces following Deb's lead in his bids for the presidency. Debs even ran for president from his jail cell (imprisoned for opposing America's intervention into The Great War) in the 1920 election.  But the Socialists never got what they "deserved" until they finally secured control of the major political party that had once been an adversary. Today, modern Democrats would like to pretend they are the party of F.D.R. and Kennedy.   But, Democrats no longer represent the cherished American values of even those presidents, let alone the fundamental values upon which this nation was built.  "Exhibit A" would be Joe Biden's divisive and hate-filled speech in Philadelphia this past Thursday. The Socialists in attendance as he spoke at Independence National Historical Park in front of Independence Hall were likely very proud of how far they have come in having been able to install a president in November of 2020. "Exhibit B" would be Big Labor's tampering with the 2020 election. Mike Podhorzer was admittedly the architect of the "Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election." He currently also serves as the senior adviser to the president of the AFL-CIO, which has ties to Socialists dating back to the Eugene Debs era. Debs would be proud indeed since he campaigned from a jail cell in the 1920 campaign, to see that Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 from a basement bunker and "won." While from prison in 1920, Debs campaigned with the slogan "Convict No. 9653 for President." He actually received around 915,000 votes, representing about 3% of the total votes cast. If Mike Podhorzer knew such history, Deb's prison campaign may have been  a blueprint to keep Biden "on ice" while letting cyber experts handle the campaign results.  One must wonder: If true Americans don't show up in 2022, will Big Labor and Democrats orchestrate a Socialist States of Amerika by 2024?