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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 5 sepTember 2017
Politics, marches dominate summer’s last hurrah on Labor Day

By The Associated Press ultimately we will win this
Labor Day is a holiday to struggle,” said Sanders, an
honor the American work- independent who ran un-
er, but it also has a political successfully for president as
bent. Across the country a Democrat. Trump, a Re-
gatherings and parades publican, has slammed the
invite politicians to march program for young immi-
and speak on the day that grants as illegal “amnesty.”
also marks a final hurrah for
summer. Here’s a look at THE AMERICAN WORKER
how the United States cel- U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren
ebrated its Labor Day. released a report on Labor
Day saying Trump is fail-
TO THE STREETS ing to keep his campaign
Hundreds of people promises to create more
marched through down- jobs and increase wages.
town Los Angeles on Mon- Instead of protecting work-
day, calling for a $15-an- ers, the report from the
hour minimum wage na- Massachusetts Democrat
tionwide and stronger said the president is put-
union protection for work- ting people in the Labor
ers. The marchers held Department who are anti-
a large banner reading Supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA chant slogans and hold signs union and want to revoke
“America Needs Unions” while joining a Labor Day rally in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017. regulations they say are an-
as they marched to City (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) ti-business, but labor groups
Hall while chanting. Some depending on the number back! Working-class Amer- viated from a typical La- say protect worker safety.
of the demonstrators wore of employees, to $15 an ica is under attack. Keep bor Day message, using Trump has touted his eco-
red shirts that said: “Fight for hour by 2022. Marches over up the fight,” Springer said “ugly” and “cruel” to de- nomic policies he said have
$15.” Others walked with a the minimum wage were at a Monday morning rally. scribe Trump’s reported created more than 1 million
large quilt created to sig- held in several other cities, Springer, a Democrat, has decision to end a program jobs since he took office.
nify unity for street vendors. including St. Louis and Kan- not officially announced that grants temporary le-
Supporters of the Deferred sas City in Missouri. a run for Ohio governor in gal status to people who REMEMBERING JERRY LEWIS
Action for Childhood Arriv- 2018. Before he became a were brought to the United A staple of Labor Days for
als, or DACA chanted slo- JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! TV star, he bounced back States illegally as children more than 40 years, the
gans and held signs while Perhaps the most inter- from a prostitution scandal Sanders told the union telethon for the Muscular
joining the Labor Day rally esting Labor Day political in the 1970s to win elec- members he spoke to at Dystrophy Association host-
in downtown Los Angeles. appearance was in Ohio, tion to a term as Cincinnati the New Hampshire AFL- ed for almost all its run by
Los Angeles police said where tabloid TV star Jerry mayor and failed in a run CIO in Manchester that Jerry Lewis has been gone
there were no arrests. Springer was at a parade in for governor in 1982. they needed to stand to- for three years. And Lewis
Earlier Monday, dozens of Cleveland. gether to fight for immi- died on Aug. 20.
workers walked off the job There was no crazy love tri- BERNIE! BERNIE! BERNIE! grants, just like they need Lewis parted ways with his
at a McDonald’s in the angle or confrontation that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders to keep fighting for govern- namesake 21-1/2 hour tele-
city’s Beverly Grove neigh- made Springer famous on made several speeches in ment-run health care for all thon in 2010. The telethon
borhood and joined union syndication. Instead, the the Northeast on Monday, Americans and other poli- ran with reduced hours
activists in a protest outside. 73-year-old had low-key saying Donald Trump’s cy changes he said would until 2014, when the as-
California has approved conversations, calling for presidency is accelerating stop the economic back- sociation announced the
legislation that will gradu- workers to join unions so a trend to make America a sliding for the middle class. way people watched TV
ally push the statewide they can get back a bigger country for the rich and not “We’re taking on the insur- and donated money had
minimum wage from $10 piece of the pie from their for everyone. ance companies. We’re changed too much for the
an hour or $10.50 an hour, bosses. “We have to fight Sanders on Monday de- taking on Wall Street. But show to work anymore.q
Caribbean celebration held in New York amid tight securitya

NEW YORK (AP) — One of “I’m Guyanese, Trini, Pana- drew Cuomo was killed by
the largest U.S. celebra- manian, Puerto Rican and a stray bullet. Last year,
tions of Caribbean culture, Jamaican,” reveler Imani 17-year-old Tyreke Borel
a colorful and joyful spec- Woods told WCBS, express- was shot and killed and a
tacle featuring thousands ing enthusiasm for a day of 72-year-old woman was
of revelers, musicians, dancing and good food. grazed in the arm. Soon af-
dancers and costumed The day’s curtain-opener, ter, a 22-year-old woman,
troupes, was held Monday J’ouvert, which combines Tiarah Poyau, was shot in
amid a backdrop of tight the French words “jour” the head just a block away
security. and “ouvert” and means and died.
The daylong party, fea- daybreak, has been held “Tiarah lost her life due to
turing a morning festival for decades in the pre- senseless violence at last
called J’ouvert and an dawn darkness, but there year’s J’Ouvert celebra-
afternoon Caribbean Car- was serious talk of cancel- tion,” Democratic Mayor
nival parade, brought out ing the party this year. Bill de Blasio said Sunday in
smiling throngs, bouncing Costumed dancers perform during the West Indian Day Parade Shootings near the march a Twitter statement accom-
to the steel-drum beat of on Monday, Sept. 4, 2017, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. route have long been a panied by heart-wrench-
Brooklyn’s melting-pot La- The parade, one of the largest celebrations of Caribbean culture concern. In 2015, an aide ing video Poyau’s tearful
in the U.S., is being held amid ramped-up security.
bor Day tradition. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen) to Democratic Gov. An- mother and uncle.q