Happy early Labor Day to everyone. This is an annual celebration of workers and their achievements that originated during one of American labor history’s most dismal chapters. At the height of the Industrial Revolution, in the late 1800s, the average American worked 12-hour days-seven days a week, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories and mines across the country, and people of all ages faced extremely unsafe working conditions. The labor force became fed up and began to show resistance to and protest the current conditions. To help address the protests, riots, and casualties on both sides, President Grover Cleveland, on June 28, 1894, signed into law, Labor Day as a national holiday. Since that time, this “workingmen’s holiday” has been celebrated with parades, picnics, barbecues, and other activities.