`WORKING' TO END LABOR DAY; GROUP WANTS `LEISURE' DESIGNATION.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Staff Writer They wanted to organize a million men to their cause, but that would have taken too much work. Instead the Men of Leisure simply hope to find enough men, or women, willing to back their issue - changing Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. to Leisure Day - and sign a petition to be sent to Congress. They plan to submit the petition Sept. 7, the day after the holiday, which they plan to spend doing, well, nothing. ``We just think people work a little too hard sometimes, it makes the society a little hard to live,'' said organizer Greg Rydberg, a college student who also holds down a job at a Ventura Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . ``For leisure you don't have to do anything. People have kind of forgotten about that - that's what were trying to do is remind people, how to do that, do nothing.'' With membership cards - depicting a man swinging on a hammock hammock, suspended bed, usually of netting, canvas, or leather. The hammock and its name were introduced to Europeans by Christopher Columbus, who learned of them from Native Americans. - and a Web site, the organization that started in January is bending its do-nothing philosophy to champion the Leisure Day cause. Already, more than 12,000 supporters have added their names to the cyber-petition. Others have downloaded forms and made hard copies to collect signatures. The group said it sent e-mail to Rep (programming) REP - A directive used in IBM object code card decks (and later PTF Tapes) to REPlace fragments of already assembled or compiled object code prior to link edit. . Elton Gallegly Elton W. Gallegly (born March 7 1944), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, currently representing the 24th District of California (map). , R-Oxnard, but the congressman said Thursday he had been too busy working to go through the correspondence. And he doubted he would take the time to push the proposed legislation. ``I'm going to stop everything right now - I'm going to put education, health care, Social Security, Medicare Medicare, national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over and the disabled. It was established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and is now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. on hold and we're going to tell everybody what they should do on the one day they have a choice (of what to do),'' said Gallegly. ``I firmly believe it isn't government's role to tell people what they should do on their day off.'' |
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