A | 기사 내용을 바탕으로 AI를 통해 제작된 일러스트. 경기일보 AI 뉴스 이미지 인천 제물포구 북성동 월미도 놀이공원에서 ‘디스코팡팡’을 타던 30대 이용객이 놀이기구 밖으로 떨어져 다친 사고(경기일보 24일자 인터넷판 보도)와 관련, 경찰이 안전관리상 과실이 있었는지 확인하기 위한 조사에 착수했다. 26일 인천 제물포경찰서에 따르면 월미도 디스코팡팡 이용객 추락 사고와 관련해 업무상 과실치상 혐의 적용 여부를 검토하기 위한 입건 전 조사를 시작했다. 앞서 23일 오후 9시23분께 인천 제물포구 북성동 놀이공원에서 디스코팡팡을 타고 있던 30대 A씨가 운행 도중 몸이 뒤로 넘어가면서 난간 밖으로 떨어졌다. A씨는 머리와 목 부위에 통증을 호소해 119구급대에 의해 병원으로 옮겨져 치료를 받았고, 생명에는 지장이 없는 것으로 전해졌다. A씨는 경찰 조사에서 “신발 한쪽이 벗겨져 다시 신으려고 한쪽 팔을 풀었는데 순간적으로 몸이 뒤로 넘어갔다”고 진술했다. 경찰은 놀이기구 운행 과정에서 안전수칙이 제대로 지켜졌는지와 사고 당시 운행 강도 및 조작 방식 등에 문제가 없었는지 등을 확인할 방침이다. 또 A씨를 상대로 정확한 사고 경위를 조사한 뒤 당시 놀이기구를 조작한 DJ와 시설 책임자 등을 상대로 업무상 과실 여부를 살펴볼 예정이다. 경찰 관계자는 “놀이기구 특성상 원심력과 반동으로 이용객이 난간 너머로 떨어진 것으로 보고 있다”며 “사고 당시 운행 모습이 담긴 영상을 확보해 정확한 경위를 조사할 예정”이라고 말했다. ● 관련기사: 인천 월미도 놀이공원서 디스코팡팡 타던 30대 바깥으로 튕겨 나가 https://kyeonggi.com/article/20260824580479。
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Labor Day is a U.S. national holiday held the first Monday every September. Unlike most U.S. holidays, it is a strange celebration without rituals, except for shopping and barbecuing. For most people it simply marks the last weekend of summer and the start of the school year.
The holiday’s founders in the late 1800s envisioned something very different from what the day has become. The founders were looking for two things: a means of unifying union workers and a reduction in work time.
The first Labor Day occurred in 1882 in New York City under the direction of that city’s Central Labor Union.
In the 1800s, unions covered only a small fraction of workers and were balkanized and relatively weak. The goal of organizations like the Central Labor Union and more modern-day counterparts like the AFL-CIO was to bring many small unions together to achieve a critical mass and power. The organizers of the first Labor Day were interested in creating an event that brought different types of workers together to meet each other and recognize their common interests.
However, the organizers had a large problem: No government or company recognized the first Monday in September as a day off work. The issue was solved temporarily by declaring a one-day strike in the city. All striking workers were expected to march in a parade and then eat and drink at a giant picnic afterwards.
Why was Labor Day invented?
Labor Day came about because workers felt they were spending too many hours and days on the job.
In the 1830s, manufacturing workers were putting in 70-hour weeks on average. Sixty years later, in 1890, hours of work had dropped, although the average manufacturing worker still toiled in a factory 60 hours a week.
These long working hours caused many union organizers to focus on winning a shorter eight-hour work day. They also focused on getting workers more days off, such as the Labor Day holiday, and reducing the workweek to just six days.
These early organizers clearly won since the most recent data show that the average person working in manufacturing is employed for a bit over 40 hours a week and most people work only five days a week.
As the U.S. economy expanded beyond farming and basic manufacturing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it became important for businesses to find consumers interested in buying the products and services being produced in ever greater amounts. Shortening the work week was one way of turning the working class into the consuming class.
The common misconception is that since Labor Day is a national holiday, everyone gets the day off. Nothing could be further from the truth.
While the first Labor Day was created by striking, the idea of a special holiday for workers was easy for politicians to support. It was easy because proclaiming a holiday, like Mother’s Day, costs legislators nothing and benefits them by currying favor with voters. In 1887, Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey all declared a special legal holiday in September to celebrate workers.
Within 12 years, half the states in the country recognized Labor Day as a holiday. It became a national holiday in June 1894 when President Grover Cleveland signed the Labor Day bill into law. While most people interpreted this as recognizing the day as a national vacation, Congress’ proclamation covers only federal employees. It is up to each state to declare its own legal holidays.
Moreover, proclaiming any day an official holiday means little, as an official holiday does not require private employers and even some government agencies to give their workers the day off. Many stores are open on Labor Day. Essential government services in protection and transportation continue to function, and even less essential programs like national parks are open. Because not everyone is given time off on Labor Day, union workers as recently as the 1930s were being urged to stage one-day strikes if their employer refused to give them the day off.
In the president’s annual Labor Day declaration last year, Obama encouraged Americans “to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies and activities that honor the contributions and resilience of working Americans.”
The proclamation, however, does not officially declare that anyone gets time off.
Controversy: Militants and founders
Today most people in the U.S. think of Labor Day as a noncontroversial holiday.
The first controversy that people fought over was how militant workers should act on a day designed to honor workers. Communist, Marxist and socialist members of the trade union movement supported May 1 as an international day of demonstrations, street protests and even violence, which continues even today.
More moderate trade union members, however, advocated for a September Labor Day of parades and picnics. In the U.S., picnics, instead of street protests, won the day.
There is also dispute over who suggested the idea. The earliest history from the mid-1930s credits Peter J. McGuire, who founded the New York City Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, in 1881 with suggesting a date that would fall “nearly midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving” that “would publicly show the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations.”
Later scholarship from the early 1970s makes an excellent case that Matthew Maguire, a representative from the Machinists Union, actually was the founder of Labor Day. However, because Matthew Maguire was seen as too radical, the more moderate Peter McGuire was given the credit.
Who actually came up with the idea will likely never be known, but you can vote online here to express your view.
Have we lost the spirit of Labor Day?
Today Labor Day is no longer about trade unionists marching down the street with banners and their tools of trade. Instead, it is a confused holiday with no associated rituals.
The original holiday was meant to handle a problem of long working hours and no time off. Although the battle over these issues would seem to have been won long ago, this issue is starting to come back with a vengeance, not for manufacturing workers but for highly skilled white-collar workers, many of whom are constantly connected to work.
If you work all the time and never really take a vacation, start a new ritual that honors the original spirit of Labor Day. Give yourself the day off. Don’t go in to work. Shut off your phone, computer and other electronic devices connecting you to your daily grind. Then go to a barbecue, like the original participants did over a century ago, and celebrate having at least one day off from work during the year!
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