{"id":1414,"date":"2004-09-06T20:54:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T01:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2004-09-06T20:54:31","modified_gmt":"2004-09-07T01:54:31","slug":"labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/09\/labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how on Labor Day everyone has the day off except a set of people who could <i>really <\/i> use a day off: retail workers.<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s important to remember where we came from (and where we might end up again if we&#8217;re not attentive.)  My husband is from Pittsburgh and Andrew Carnegie&#8217;s prints are all over that city &#8212; the libraries, the university &#8212; and all that philanthropy was built on the backs of the men who toiled in the steel mills, day and night, <b>twelve hours a day, seven days a week.<\/b>  They never had enough time to go to the library.<br \/>\nKaren Marie has posted some good Labor Day reading, including <a title=\"From the Anchor Hold\" href=\"http:\/\/kmknapp.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/teaching-on-just-wages.html\">this excerpt from Rerum Novarum:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>45. Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular let them agree freely as to the wages; nevertheless, there underlies a dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely, that wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well behaved wage-earner. <b>If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accept harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford him no better, he is made the victim of force and injustice.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t depriving the worker of his just wages one of the sins that cries out to heaven for justice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny how on Labor Day everyone has the day off except a set of people who could really use a day off: retail workers. I think it&#8217;s important to remember where we came from (and where we might end up again if we&#8217;re not attentive.) My husband is from Pittsburgh and Andrew Carnegie&#8217;s prints are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/09\/labor-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Labor Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}