The Year of the Worker. Labor Day 1986 to 1987. is a commemoration of the Great Strike which took place 75 years ago. That strike. a watershed event in the American labor movement. had the participation of over 20.000 people. including immigrants from at least 30 different nations. who spoke as many as 45 different languages. Many of these immigrant groups had arrived in Immigrant City only to face disdain and discrimination from the previous wave of immigrants who had tenaciously fought their way to some foothold on the economic ladder. But in 1912. these people united to oppose one common enemy: the hardship and penury which came from working in the citys mills. The Great Strike of 1912 illustrates so well how people of diverse cultural differences can unite for a common goal.
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