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SUMMARY:8.29.19 - Labor Day Celebration - No Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:From the US Department of Labor \n\n\n\nHistory of Labor Day\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLabor Day 2019\nOn September 2\, 2019\, the U.S. Department of Labor celebrates and honors the greatest worker in the world – the American worker. Labor Day 2019 is the 125th anniversary of Labor Day being celebrated as a national holiday. \nLabor Day: What it Means\nLabor Day\, the first Monday in September\, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength\, prosperity\, and well-being of our country. \nLabor Day Legislation\nThe first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed in 1885 and 1886. From these\, a movement developed to secure state legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature\, but the first to become law was passed by Oregon on February 21\, 1887. During 1887\, four more states – Colorado\, Massachusetts\, New Jersey\, and New York – created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut\, Nebraska\, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894\, 23 more states had adopted the holiday\, and on June 28\, 1894\, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. \nFounder of Labor Day\nMore than a century after the first Labor Day observance\, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers. \nSome records show that Peter J. McGuire\, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor\, was first in suggesting a day to honor those “who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold.” \nBut Peter McGuire’s place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire\, a machinist\, not Peter McGuire\, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire\, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson\, N.J.\, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic. \nThe First Labor Day\nThe first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday\, September 5\, 1882\, in New York City\, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later\, on September 5\, 1883. \nBy 1894\, 23 more states had adopted the holiday\, and on June 28\, 1894\, President Grover Cleveland signed a law making the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday. \nA Nationwide Holiday\nThe form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take was outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations” of the community\, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later\, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later\, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909\, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement. \nThe character of the Labor Day celebration has changed in recent years\, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change\, however\, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials\, industrialists\, educators\, clerics\, and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers\, radio\, and television. \nThe vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate\, therefore\, that the nation pays tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength\, freedom\, and leadership – the American worker.
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