August 2010 The Shoreline^ Page 19
Summer's End Ordinance of the Future Job Grown
By Charlie McBriarty
Month
Labor Day has evolvea into the three-day holiday
weekend that wraps-up the summer season. However,
Labor Day has not always had such significance.
Actually, this holiday celebrated on the first Monday
of September can trace its roots to the labor union
movement that emerged and grew through the
Industrial Revolution of the IS*" and 19* centuries.
As late as the 1880's and 90's, many workers-men,
women and children—labored 12-hour days, seven
days a week for meager wages with poor working
conditions. The labor union movement became the
means to stand up for employees against the ever-
increasing need of industry for cheap labor.
On Tuesday, September 5,1882, in New York City,
the Central Labor Union sponsored an event that
involved an estimated 10,000 workers who took off
the day without pay to march from City Hall to Union
Square. The purpose of the march was to protest poor
working conditions and recognize the contribution of
workers. This demonstration has been identified as the
first Labor Day in the United States. One year later,
the Central Labor Union repeated the workers' unpaid
"holiday" and march, and similar events took place
in other industrial cities. By 1894, this type of labor-
focused demonstration had quickly spread, and the
first Monday in September was designated as Labor
Day. Just three years later, in 1887, the state legislatures
of Oregon, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts and
New Jersey passed measures recognizing Labor Day
as a state holiday.
It was in 1893, that the small town of Pullman,
Illinois, received national attention when President
Grover Cleveland declared a strike by workers of the
Pullman Company illegal and ordered 12,000 troops to
break the strike. The ensuing clash evenhially ended
the strike, but it also put the spotlight on the plight of
workers throughout the country. In an effort to reach
out to the labor movement. Congress quickly passed
a measure identifying Labor Day on the first Monday
of September as a national holiday. Although he was
not an advocate of the labor movement. President
Cleveland signed the measure on June 28,1894.
It is interesting to note that International Workers'
Day is when most of the rest of the world celebrates the
accomplishments of labor. This day also known as May
Day is held on May 1. However, our neighbor to the
north, Canada, shares the first Monday of September
as its Labour Day.
Editor's Note: Each month, space permitting, one or more
of the town ordinances will be summarized as a service to
our readers. All ordinances are available on the town's web
site: www.townofpks.com.
Each Monday all of the residents of Pine Knoll Shores
have the opportunity to dispose of household garbage
and trash that is picked-up from the front of each
residence by a provider contracted by the town. This
service is governed by a town ordinance. Chapter 42
- 1: Garbage and Trash Removal. The following is a
summary of this ordinance:
Garbage and trash must be drained of liquid,
wrapped or deposited in a plastic or paper bag and
placed in watertight containers (cans) of galvanized
steel or plastic with tight fitting lids. These containers
shall be the 35-gallon variety or less or the 65- or 95-
gallon roll-out containers. Heavy-duty plastic bags
are permissible, but those bags cannot be left out
overnight.
The containers may not be placed on the right-of-
way any earlier than 12 hours prior to the scheduled
collection time. Once the containers are emptied they
must be removed from the right-of-way within 12
hours.
The ordinance also prohibits the construction of
any permanent racks or containers of the garbage
receptacles in the right-of-way.
GARBAGE
CAN
SERVICE
CUMMINS AND
GOINGS - PKS
247-0063
422-5313
OR
BOGUE BANKS
SERVICES
503-2197
A recent item from the Office of Governor Bev Perdue
newsletter revealed that a New Bern company will have
the "Help Wanted" signs posted in the near hiture. The
Brunswick Corporation has armounced that it intends
to expand its New Bern-based Hatteras Yachts that
will add 350 jobs over the next five years. Brunswick
will invest $4.7 million that will be coupled with state
grants from the Job Development Investment Grant and
One North Carolina Fund to expand Hatteras Yachts
to accommodate the production of both its Hatteras
Yacht and CABO Yacht brands.
Hatteras Yachts currently employs 279 full-time
workers and with the addition of 350 new employees
anticipated with the addition of CARBO Yacht it is
expected that the overall average for the new jobs will be
more than $31,000 per year as contrasted to the current
Craven County average of just under $30,000.
For more than 20 years CARBO Yachts has benefited
from a reputation as one of the world's top builders
of sport fishing boats from 32 to 52 feet. Hatteras
Yachts is recognized as a world leader in the building
of convertible sport fishing and luxury motor yachts.
This New Bern base company has been a pioneer in
the production of large offshore fiberglass powerboats,
first introduced in 1959.
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