As I celebrated Mass for our parish on the morning of Labor Day, I was struck by the Gospel which coincidentally was given to be read for Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary time: Luke 4:16-30.
Also included are those who are small business owners, those who represent best the type of world envisioned by the popes for a fair market, namely those who aren't rich themselves but through their own labor and risk create jobs so that others can provide for their families.
The now month-long and counting prohibition against labor for these people is intrinsically evil for it is a violation of the rights of these men and women to preserve their lives.
Even if they are made whole by the printing of cash by their respective governments, they are being robbed of the dignity of eating by the labor of their hands.
Our celebration of Labor Day in the United States of America is a historical memory of the great achievement of the labor movement in the face of the grave injustices which occurred in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.
The initial attempts at unions commonly were broken, often by violence, but the victory of the labor movement established the rights of workers to unionize and thus have an even footing at the bargaining table with their employers.
Finally, and most astoundingly, the "Labor movement" did nothing at all in defense of the actual right to labor.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-dignity-of-labor-requires-freedom-and-truth/
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