Why Do We Celebrate Labor Day?
Most of us celebrate LaborDay by spending time with our families, friends or maybe by taking a day torelax by ourselves. In our busy lives, opportunities to take a break do not come along very often. So who or what do we have to thank for this holiday?Well according to Wikipedia, here is how the holiday evolved.
The first big Labor Day inthe United States was observed on September 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Unionof New York. It became a federal holiday in 1894, when, following the deaths ofa number of workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals duringthe Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland reconciled with the labormovement. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a nationalholiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. The September date originally chosen by theCLU of New York and observed by many of the nation's trade unions for the pastseveral years was selected rather than the more widespread InternationalWorkers' Day because Cleveland was concerned that observance of the latter would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair, which it hadbeen observed to commemorate. All U.S. states, the District of Columbia, andthe territories have made it a statutory holiday.
Happy Labor Day!
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