Editorial: Our essential Labor Day traditions

Editorial: Our essential Labor Day traditions

President John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963, the same day as novelist C. S. Lewis. (Associated Press) This Labor Day, we offer a look back, to an address for the holiday delivered by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. His description of the challenges facing American and the nation’s workforce are compelling and remain relevant in the present day.

The history of the United States is in vital respects the history of labor. Free men and women, working for a better life for themselves and their children, settled a continent, built a society, and created and diffused […]

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