“’The idea is to make a representation where you can read the hard years of the construction of a ‘modern’ city from scratch,’ says Aryz in a press release, ‘representing all the anonymous workers who built it, representing the American Industrial Revolution and the workers in their labors’. Funded by donations from perhaps some of todays’ captains of industry, the mural lends a grace to that toil, a dignity to the classes who fought for union rights, better working conditions, a minimum wage, an end to child labor. Providence itself is known as the location of America’s first Labor Day Parade on August 23, 1882, with thousands of union members parading through downtown. 11 years later Labor Day became a holiday in Rhode Island. ...”
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