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I don't get why Google posponed showing their Freddie doodle (quite awesome btw) until Sep. 6th in the US. "Out of respect for Labor Day?" Why does Labor day re

I don't get why Google posponed showing their Freddie doodle (quite awesome btw) until Sep. 6th in the US. "Out of respect for Labor Day?" Why does Labor day require that kind of respect? I'd absolutetly understand a Memorial Day hiatus. Is it because it's Freddie Mercury? I recall a Charles Schulz birthday doodle with Snoopy on Thanksgiving. Just confused here...

marquis 15y ago
Snoopy is synonymous with Thanksgiving because of the Charlie Brown movie, "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving". Labor Day is celebrating workers, hard-won worker rights etc. I personally like that Google is respecting this by delaying showing Freddie's celebration a day.
- philwelch 15y ago
  More cynically, Labor Day is a day off from work, so Americans are usually barbecuing with their families and enjoying the last bit of summer rather than sitting inside and using the internet. They would have a bit more exposure waiting until Americans were back to work.
crb 15y ago
I assumed that it was so more people would see it - assuming that Google traffic is probably down on Labor Day.
riffic 15y ago
There is a long and contentious, but mostly forgotten, history of laborers' rights in the United States. These events in history were at times violent and bloody confrontations. Labor Day, to those with knowledge of this history, is a day of reconciliation and reverence.
- kragen 15y ago
  Really? I thought September Labor Day was a day created to erase the memory of the Haymarket Massacre by discouraging workers from commemorating it on Real Labor Day, which in the US was instead called Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and then Law Day, specifically in order to marginalize the people struggling for laborers' rights.
  - riffic 15y ago
    Initially I thought you were correct, but September Labor Day actually predates the Haymarket affair by four years. "The first big Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
    - kragen 15y ago
      You're right. Thanks for the correction! It does look like Red-phobia played a role in keeping the September date, but it was trade unions that chose it initially.

marquis 15y ago

Snoopy is synonymous with Thanksgiving because of the Charlie Brown movie, "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving". Labor Day is celebrating workers, hard-won worker rights etc. I personally like that Google is respecting this by delaying showing Freddie's celebration a day.

philwelch 15y ago
More cynically, Labor Day is a day off from work, so Americans are usually barbecuing with their families and enjoying the last bit of summer rather than sitting inside and using the internet. They would have a bit more exposure waiting until Americans were back to work.

crb 15y ago

I assumed that it was so more people would see it - assuming that Google traffic is probably down on Labor Day.

riffic 15y ago

There is a long and contentious, but mostly forgotten, history of laborers' rights in the United States. These events in history were at times violent and bloody confrontations. Labor Day, to those with knowledge of this history, is a day of reconciliation and reverence.

kragen 15y ago
Really? I thought September Labor Day was a day created to erase the memory of the Haymarket Massacre by discouraging workers from commemorating it on Real Labor Day, which in the US was instead called Americanization Day, Loyalty Day, and then Law Day, specifically in order to marginalize the people struggling for laborers' rights.
- riffic 15y ago
  Initially I thought you were correct, but September Labor Day actually predates the Haymarket affair by four years. "The first big Labor Day in the United States was observed on September 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
  - kragen 15y ago
    You're right. Thanks for the correction! It does look like Red-phobia played a role in keeping the September date, but it was trade unions that chose it initially.