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Re: Celebrating "Labor"...? History of Labor Day
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| The reference to the 1894 Pullman strike (and President Glover Cleveland sending in troops to end it) is also a history of the 2nd Amendment and why we don't have a citizen's militia any more.
The reason the President often had to use federal troops is because the ordinary citizens who made up state militias sympathized with strikers and would not respond to calls from their governor to put down a strike. Or, in some cases, they took positions to defend strikers from company-paid goon squads.
Politicians, hammered by fat-cat capitalists who thought they'd bought the use of the government, passed the 1903 Dick Act, creating the National Guard. Over the next 30 years subsequent laws effectively replaced state militias (as envisioned by Art. 1, Sect. 8 of the Constitution) with what the Founders would have considered a standing army. (I.e., not universal participation; not deliberative by its members; under the complete authority of the President to federalize them into the standing Army.).
It's funny how liberals are pro-labor, anti-gun, and dismiss the 2nd amendment by saying "the militia is the National Guard." They don't realize the original connection between those things.
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Monmouth Junction, NJ | A very good point to be made here. Been a while since I pondered that aspect of American History!
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