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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 4, 1998
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Former President Grover Cleveland signed a bill creating Labor Day in 1894.
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Williams agreed that the labor movement was seeing a resurgence. She said that 400,000 new members had joined unions in 1998.
Peaselea said that although conditions for American workers greatly had improved, unions still serves as advocacy groups.
Williams said that 5,000 union and family members gathered in Kansas City last weekend for a picnic. Other parades and observances are planned across the country this weekend, she said.
Labor is pushing for prevailing wage and fair-share legislation in Kansas. About 15 percent of Kansas workers are union members, but that number is on the rise because of recruitment efforts, he said.
Kansas is a right-to-work state, which means that workers can not be required to join a union, Peaslee said.
Social security, health care and pay equality are key issues to unions, Williams said.
Political pressure mounted as labor unrest escalated into rioting because of issues unrelated to the holiday. A way to recognize the worker's contributions to the country was the formalize the holiday.
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"The labor struggle goes on as far as unions are concerned," he said.
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But most won't realize that the orignal purpose of this holiday was to honor the importance of the American worker.
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By 1892, workers in New York were using their unpaid holiday to march around the city's Union Square. They were pushing for legal, federal recognition of Labor Day.
As Labor Day is celebrated across the Country Monday, summer fun and family activities will be on the minds of many people.
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Dwayne Peaslee, president of the Lawrence Central Labor Council agreed.
and municipalities formally legalized a labor holiday.
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"It should be a time to sit back and take a moment to remember the struggles that our forefathers
Bridgette Williams, president of the AFL-CIO in Kansas City, Mo., said, "Labor Day is an important day for labor, and it's an important day for the country."
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He said that for many,including union workers, Labor Day is just a day off.
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"Now, it's just about picnics or going fishing." Peaslee said.
Central Labor Union and the Knights of Labor promoted the first holiday, and the idea soon spread around the country. Some states
What is known is that workers in New York City began celebrating an annual day off from work in 1882, Peasele said.
The period was one of tension and unrest between workers and industrial business owners regarding wages and job security.
the history of Labor Day dates back to the late 1800s, but the holiday's origins are not entirely clear.
had, just to put food on the table for their families," he said.
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Commentary
Ben Stiller tries to make a point in a futile conversation with Catherine Keener in the Neil LaBute film Your Friends and Neighbors. Contributed photo
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'Your Friends & Neighbors' serves up cynical look at life
Kansan movie critic
Bv Jeremy M. Doherty
Most Hollywood pictures these days try to convince us that people, although flawed, are basically decent individuals who truly care for one another.
Neil LaBute's Your Friends & Neighbors, on the other hand, seethes with a cynicism so massive that it's nearly suffocating. Many will be tempted to dismiss this disturbing story about a group of self-absorbed yuppies as the bleatiness of a misanthropic mind.
And if it weren't for the humor and honesty within LaBute's film, those criticisms might carry some weight. Instead, LaBute (a University of Kansas alumnus) has created a movie that serves as both a cautionary tale about our material-obsessed society and is an often-uproarious satire of sex.
Your Friends & Neighbors is a dialogue-heavy saga about what goes on behind the fake smiles and hearty handshakes that people exchange daily. LaBute does not
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Ben Stiller, in a performance miles away from his gooey turn in There's Something About Mary, plays a turtleneck-wearing drama professor whose annoying habit of talking during sex is deteriorating the sanity of his live-in lover (Catherine Keener). Her frustration sends her into the arms of an artist's assistant (Nastassja Kinski), whose silent demeanor provides more than enough comfort.
judge his self-centered, often misogynistic characters; he lets the audience to form its own opinions.
Stiller, meanwhile, suddenly is smitten with the wife (Amy Brennan) of his overweight best friend (Aaron Eckhart). This doesn't appear to perplex Eckhart to any extent; his wife craves intimacy, but he's more than content to gratify himself whenever she heads for the bathroom.
The sixth character is played by Jason Patric, effectively obliterating any bad memories lingering from Speed 2, as a near-psychotic sexual predator. To him, women are nothing more than notches on
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In a novel twist, LaBute declines to identify any of these characters by name, and the city they live in never is named. The result is impressive — it forces the audience to acknowledge the reality of the movie's world and the relevance of its subject matter.
Kansan rating: ***** out of ****
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Rated: "R" for profanity and sexual situations.
a belt. In one scene, he ridicules a sexual partner for menstruating on his expensive sheets.
many will wonder why LaBute goes to such extremes to shock and disgust. Your Friends & Neighbors is a deliberate, merciless film that refuses to moralize or condemn. In this era of movies that provide easy answers and cookie-cutter symbolism, we only can hope that he isn't asking too much of audiences.
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