Labor Day 2020 is on Monday, September 7. Labor Day pays tribute to the contributions and achievements of American workers and is traditionally observed on the first Monday in September. It was created by the labor movement in the late 19th century and became a federal holiday in 1894. Labor Day weekend also symbolizes the end of summer for many Americans, and is celebrated with parties, street parades and athletic events.<\/p>\n
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Labor Day, an \nannual celebration of workers and their achievements, originated during \none of American labor history\u2019s most dismal chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the late 1800s, at the height of the Industrial Revolution<\/a>\n in the United States, the average American worked 12-hour days and \nseven-day weeks in order to eke out a basic living. Despite restrictions\n in some states, children as young as 5 or 6 toiled in mills, factories \nand mines across the country, earning a fraction of their adult \ncounterparts\u2019 wages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People of all ages, particularly the very \npoor and recent immigrants, often faced extremely unsafe working \nconditions, with insufficient access to fresh air, sanitary facilities \nand breaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As manufacturing increasingly supplanted agriculture \nas the wellspring of American employment, labor unions, which had first \nappeared in the late 18th century, grew more prominent and vocal. They \nbegan organizing strikes and rallies to protest poor conditions and \ncompel employers to renegotiate hours and pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of these events turned violent during this period, including the infamous Haymarket Riot<\/a> of 1886, in which several Chicago<\/a>\n policemen and workers were killed. Others gave rise to longstanding \ntraditions: On September 5, 1882, 10,000 workers took unpaid time off to\n march from City Hall to Union Square in New York<\/a> City, holding the first Labor Day parade in U.S. history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n idea of a \u201cworkingmen\u2019s holiday,\u201d celebrated on the first Monday in \nSeptember, caught on in other industrial centers across the country, and\n many states passed legislation recognizing it. Congress would not \nlegalize the holiday until 12 years later, when a watershed moment in \nAmerican labor history brought workers\u2019 rights squarely into the \npublic\u2019s view. On May 11, 1894, employees of the Pullman Palace Car \nCompany in Chicago went on strike to protest wage cuts and the firing of\n union representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On June 26, the American Railroad Union, led by Eugene V. Debs<\/a>,\n called for a boycott of all Pullman railway cars, crippling railroad \ntraffic nationwide. To break the Pullman strike, the federal government \ndispatched troops to Chicago, unleashing a wave of riots that resulted \nin the deaths of more than a dozen workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\n the wake of this massive unrest and in an attempt to repair ties with \nAmerican workers, Congress passed an act making Labor Day a legal \nholiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. On June 28, \n1894, President Grover Cleveland<\/a> signed it into law. More than a century later, the true founder of Labor Day has yet to be identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many\n credit Peter J. McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor,\n while others have suggested that Matthew Maguire, a secretary of the \nCentral Labor Union, first proposed the holiday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labor\n Day is still celebrated in cities and towns across the United States \nwith parades, picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays and other public \ngatherings. For many Americans, particularly children and young adults, \nit represents the end of the summer and the start of the back-to-school \nseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \nUniform Monday Holiday Act of 1968 changed several holidays to ensure \nthey would always be observed on Mondays so that federal employees could\n have more three-day weekends. The Act, signed into law on June 28, \n1968, moved Washington\u2019s Birthday Memorial Day, and Columbus Day to \nfixed Mondays each year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Labor Day 2020 is on Monday, September 7. 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Labor Day Celebrations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Holidays That Fall on Mondays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n