EAU salutes Labor Day
He who swings a mighty hammer,
He who reaps a field of corn,
He who breaks the marshy meadow
To provide for wife, for children,
He who rows against the current,
He who weary at the loom
Weaves with wool and tow and flax
That his fair-haired young may flourish.
Honor that man, praise the worker!
Honor every callous hand!
Honor every drop of sweat
That is shed in mill and foundry!
Honor every dripping forehead
At the plough. And let that man
Who labors
Hungering ploughs not forget.
Ferdinand FreiligrathToday is Labor Day, the traditional holiday in honor of working people in the United States. Just as May Day is a workers’ holiday celebrated by nationalists across Europe, patriots in the USA pause on Labor Day to honor the rich history of blue collar America and draw attention to the threat workers face from globalist offshoring and open borders immigration.
Marxists have long hijacked both May Day and Labor Day, but “honor to labor” was a working class idea long before Marxists slaughtered the working class. The ideologically defeated far left regularly shows its own lack of relevance in the US as it takes to the streets to support the illegal immigrant scab labor, which is supported by corporations and drives down the wage scale in the name of “competition.” In fact, as each Labor Day passes the union movement, thanks in large part to the treasonous behavior of the labor bureaucracy, shrinks to the point that now the largest pool of union membership is in the public sector and overall membership is at an all time low. And those who are still union members often see their membership dollars wasted by union tops on campaign payoffs to corrupt politicians and to organizations fighting in favor of the open border agenda. In fact, as recently as June 3, 2009, the AFL CIO coalition, once a lion of labor, announced the formation of “Reform Immigration for America” in open partnership with the Hispanic racist National Council of La Raza [The Race to push Barack Obama to put immigration amnesty at the top of his agenda.
Lasting social progress is only sustainable in a racially homogenous nation, which is partly why corporate America so staunchly supports open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. In the US, corporations enjoy the private profits that come to them thanks to illegal labor, but these same corporations are able to socialize the costs, burdens which are carried by taxpayers who pay in ruined school and healthcare systems, crime, lost jobs and lower salaries, just to name a few. Yet the union movement, which once helped to uplift America’s working people and build the world’s foremost economy, now stands with the enemy against the same people it claims to fight for.
Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810-1876) was a German poet who expressed pro-labor and nationalist themes. Like Richard Wagner, Freiligrath stood on the barricades in 1848 as a nationalist against the rooted parasitical elites. Wagner’s father-in-law, Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, eventually set one of Freiligrath’s poems to music. The connection between nationalism and social progress has been obscured, but is being re-asserted by European Americans United and our co-thinkers across the Western world.
In this age of “globalism” working people are being shorn of the gains they earned through decades of struggle. In the United States alone, union membership is at an all-time low, and the forty hour week is a thing of the past. These real-world facts have given rise to a massive wave of opposition to globalist policies like Third World immigration.
By recognizing the likes of Ferdinand Freiligrath and others, EAU seeks to link current struggles for national freedom and social justice to the historical currents which spawned them.