[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 97 (Friday, May 19, 1995)]
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Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 6801--Labor History Month, 1995
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                Proclamation 6801 of May 17, 1995

                
Labor History Month, 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Among the most insistent themes in the history of 
                American democracy has been the determination of our 
                workers to find dignity in their work and meaning in 
                their citizenship. The labor movement has long given 
                voice to these aspirations. American trade unionists 
                have fought for and achieved benefits for all of us by 
                strengthening citizens' roles in the workplace and by 
                expanding their participation in the political lives of 
                their communities.

                Gone is the time when the average American worker made 
                about ten dollars for a 60-hour week, and more than 2 
                million children worked similarly long hours for even 
                less pay. The national labor movement has helped ensure 
                safe working conditions, regular hours, decent living 
                wages, and paid holidays and vacations. And in 1993 we 
                moved a step further, affording hard-working Americans 
                the right to emergency family leave.

                Workers have been leaders in the efforts to establish 
                the 8-hour day, the 40-hour week, security in 
                unemployment and old age, protection for the sick and 
                injured and for children, equal employment opportunity, 
                and health and safety standards. And the labor movement 
                has strived to make public education available for 
                every child. American workers have helped to make this 
                progress possible, and our country is immeasurably 
                stronger because of it.

                As we observe Labor History Month this year, we 
                understand that our work is not yet finished. Today's 
                global marketplace demands that we establish and 
                strengthen partnerships between employers and unions, 
                cooperate to achieve safe, high-performance work 
                environments, improve the skills of American workers 
                and the competitiveness of American businesses, and 
                further enhance human dignity in the workplace. The 
                challenges we face are many, but the history of our 
                accomplishments assures us that the future looks bright 
                indeed.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim May 1995, as ``Labor History 
                Month.'' I call upon the people of the United States to 
                observe this period with appropriate programs, 
                ceremonies, and activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and nineteenth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 95-12533
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