Saturday, September 7
4:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN

Join the East Side Freedom Library on Saturday, September 7th, to share food, drink, and music!

Steeped in labor history and artifacts, each year brings a great opportunity for our sisters, brothers and kin to join in celebration of our past, present and future. This year’s event will also premier a photography exhibit sponsored by the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union, Local 1105, “Archives in Motion: The ATU Workers of Metro Transit,” with photographs by Leslie Grant, Jeffrey Skemp and Isabela Escalona.

• Free Food
• Archives in Motion
• Twin Cities Labor Chorus
• Book Sale
• Music
• More!

American workers have celebrated Labor Day for more than 140 years. This has been an occasion to honor our history, build solidarity and community in the present, and look towards a better future. We invite you to join together on our beautiful front lawn for food, drink, music, updates from ongoing campaigns and struggles, and community-building. Our national Labor Day holiday’s roots lay right here on Saint Paul’s East Side. In April 1894, after several rounds of wage cuts, railroad workers from all trades—engineers, firemen, brakemen, trainmen, switchmen, conductors, maintenance of way workers, and more—united into one union and struck against James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railroad. With the support of other St. Paul workers, they forced Hill to back down and rescind the wage cuts. Their success inspired 125,000 railroad workers to strike across the country that summer, and their power pushed President Grover Cleveland to declare a national Labor Day holiday in September of that year.

See you on the lawn!

FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY!