Don’t Be A Maguire Or A McGuire!

More than 100 years after the first Labor Day, there appears to be doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers. Some people believe that Peter McGuire, once the general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor laborers.

But Peter McGuire’s place in history has been challenged. Many believe that Mathew Maguire, a machinist, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Mathew Maguire, later the secretary of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson in New Jersey, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York.

What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic (yes, you read it right………….a demonstration and a PICNIC!!!.  “Let’s smash some managerial faces and then have some tea and sandwiches”).

What has this to do with you?  Well, nothing directly, but I would like to comment that, although physical labor MUST be done, it doesn’t have to be done by YOU!.  You can devote your time to more cerebral matters and make money for yourself by working your online business from home.  The technology today allows for people with a $400 computer and an internet connection to not only research, but to actually create a full-time business, supplying information products to willing, indeed EAGER, buyers.

Perhaps one day robots will completely take over the physical labor that we do.  After all, we’ve been using robots in one form or another for centuries now in the form of our machinery, from Ploughs to laptops.

Honor the laborers, yes, but DON’T BE ONE OF THEM.  Their time will come, if they so choose, to take the path of least resistance and to start making a good living running their home-based business and earning money by helping others.

Don’t be a McGuire or a Maguire, be an internet marketer!

Luke.