Roy Edroso does the heavy lifting here.
Michelle Malkin opened the Labor Day festivities by celebrating "Big Labor's Legacy of Violence."Roy has a lot of additional excerpts from the right-bloggers, most of them equally insipid.Malkin predicted that on Labor Day President Obama and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, with whom he would be spending it, would "cast Big Labor as an unassailable force for good in American history." She might have left off "unassailable," as she didn't mention any good that had come from unions, choosing to focus instead on "the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations."
The long struggle for workers' rights has been violent -- think of Federal troops mowing down railroad workers in the 1894 Pullman Strike, or the Ludlow Massacre, or the Ford Hunger March, or any other of a host of other attacks on unions.
I do wonder if any of those folks have ever worked more than an eight-hour day with no overtime, have ever worked more than five days in an average workweek, or have ever missed a paid holiday. Their ideological blinders are impressive in a sad sick sort of way.
Here's a song from Woody Guthrie memorializing all the dead labor organizers of the 20th century.