The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor…. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.
— Grover Cleveland, as quoted by Heather Cox Richardson in a brief history of the first Labor Day.
Spoiler: Labor Day was founded as a sop to labor after business interests defeated the labor movement.