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On Labor Day, the following flyer was placed on approximately 500 front doors,
car windshields, and telephone poles in well-to-do residential sections of
Morgantown, WV.
It's Time To Reflect
It's Labor Day once again. Today you are permitted to
do anything you want. This token day is given to you by your
employers "to honor your hard work and dedication." They're
making this investment of one day's lost labor, confident
that you'll return to work tomorrow feeling refreshed,
grateful, and submissive. You probably will.
Today, you will wallow in the by-products of your
captivity. Like a rabbit eating its own droppings, you will
spend the day buying back the very same commodities that you
and your labor-force partners have created. How many times
are you going to eat your own shit before you start to
question the people that are serving it up?
Can you remember the day that you decided you wanted to
spend your life as a laborer? Of course you can't. Society
doesn't present work to you as an option. It presents work
as your destiny. It's no wonder that you bought into it.
But you do have options. Your body, your mind, your
time, and your life are all rightfully yours. You are free
to reclaim any or all of them whenever you want them. There
can be so much more to life than producing products and
buying them back. But unless you are brave enough to step
out of the line, you will die as a slave to this self-
perpetuating cycle.
Your employers have given you today off to pacify you.
They are hoping that giving you one day back will blind you.
They don't want you to realize that they stole the other 364
from you. Are you going to fall for it again this year?
We don't want you to buy our newspaper, or come to some
discussion, or join our organization. We don't even have an
organization. We are just a group of individuals who
are outraged that our lives have been hijacked by this futile
and endless cycle that society has adopted. We are hoping
that Morgantown will wake up and refuse to take part in this
pathetic Spectacle.
So here you are, branded by society as "labor." Yet,
despite the subjugation that the word implies, you wear no
manacles. You are always free to do anything you choose.
Tomorrow, the fate of your body, your mind, your time,
and your life will be in your hands. Are you going to excuse
yourself from the table, or order yourself up another plate
of shit?
We implore you to reclaim your life. When your alarm
goes off tomorrow, pick up the phone and call your boss. Let
him know that you won't be coming into work. If he wants to
know why, just tell him that it's Labor Day.
If you have any questions, call 296-0041 any morning 9-
10am or 291-9433 during regular business hours.
We Invite You Back To Life
The phone numbers at the bottom of the page reach the Editorial Opinions desk
at The Dominion Post (a local newspaper), and the "Morgantown A.M." radio talk
show at a local radio station. The next day, the paper printed a front page
story on the flyer, insisting that they had nothing to do with it, and the
radio program issued a similar disclaimer.