Happy Labor Day America!

Did you know that the first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union? (US DOL)

Did you know that in European countries, China and other parts of the world, May Day, the first day in May, is a holiday to celebrate workers and labor unions? Before it became an international workers holiday, May Day was a celebration of spring and the promise of summer. (howstuffworks)

Did you know that on January 13, 1874, as unemployed workers demonstrated in New York's Tompkins Square Park, a detachment of mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children indiscriminately with billy clubs and leaving hundreds of casualties in their wake? (an eclectic list of events in us labor history)

Did you know that on March 25, 1911, 148 sweatshop workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company (mostly women and young girls) were killed in a fire because the exits were locked to prevent breaks and theft? (trianglefactoryfire)

Did you know that on May 19, 1920, 10 were killed in the "Matewan massacre," an integral part of the fight for industrial democracy and workers' rights that was sweeping the country? (matewan)

Did you know that that over one million people in the US have worked as prostitutes in the United States? (pen)

Did you know that there are currently approximately a million people in the US working in the legal profession? (bls)