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The Reasoning Behind Labor Day
Learn some great factor about Labor Day and it's celebration in the United States of America.
My Questions About Labor Day
Why do we celebrate Labor Day?
The holiday started in 1882 as the finished result of the “labor movement” and was planned to be a “day of rest” to recognize the strain and sweat of the everyday working man.
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Who started Labor Day?
Although there is some disagreement about who came up with the idea, many historians usually give the credit to Peter J. McGuire - who was the general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor - as the man who was first acknowledged for the idea of this holiday. However, other historians in recently passed years have looked at a mechanist named Matthew Maguire as the man to hold accountable for the holiday while he was serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. Despite the arguments over who deserves the credit, it was, in the long run, the Central Labor Union that adopted a Labor Day suggestion and named a committee to organize an official celebration on September 5, 1882 in New York City, New York.
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Why is it in September?
The first Monday of September was named the date of the holiday because the day occurred halfway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. This idea became popular with various labor unions and local governments around the country, and towns gradually came to adopt Labor Day as an official holiday before the notion gained support and developed into a national holiday.
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