Labor Day Week...Time To Remember All Workers!
We celebrate or at least recognize just about everything we can imagine with a week or certainly a day during the year‹such as Grandparents¹ Day, Independence Day, Pork Month, Flag Day, Hot Dog Week, Mothers¹ Day,
Groundhog Day, Apple Orchard Week, Strawberry Week, Sunflower Week, Newspaper Week, and we must never forget St. Patrick¹s Day...and the list goes on and on. But how about ³Labor Day Week,² when we can remember all the workers (laborers) who do their jobs on a daily basis to maintain the spirit and resolve of this country as the greatest in the world?
So we¹re just going ahead to name this ³Labor Day Week,² since the holiday was just celebrated on Monday.
In the United States, Labor Day is celebrated annually on the first Monday in September as a holiday for the labor movement in America. It is dedicated to the economic and social achievements of employees in the United
States. The first Labor Day Parade was held in New York¹s Union Square in 1882.
According to DoSomething.org, the first celebrated US Labor Day was on Tuesday, Sept. 5, in New York City, planned by the Central Labor Union. More than 10,000 workers marched from City Hall all the way to 42nd
Street and then met with their families in Wendel¹s Elm Park for a picnic, concert and speeches.
There is disagreement about who actually proposed Labor Day as a holiday. Some say it was Peter J. McGuire, who was the cofounder of the American Federation of Labor. Others believe it was Matthew Maguire, a
machinist.
Oregon was the first state to celebrate Labor Day as a legal holiday in 1887. While Labor Day started as part of the labor union movement, in modern times it is seen as a chance to celebrate the last weekend of summer.
Historians say the expression ³No white after Labor Day² comes from when the upper class people would return from their summer vacations and stow away their lightweight, white summer clothes as they returned back to school and work.
Trivia
‹Americans worked 12-hour days seven days a week during the 19th
Century.
‹The Adamson Act was passed on September 3, 1916 to establish an
eight-hour work day.
‹There is still a Labor Day Parade in New York City, which takes place
throughout the 20 blocks north of the 1882 labor march.
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Good Advice For All Of Us.......
Take one day at a time-
That is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over the past,
for it is gone.
And do not be troubled
about the future,
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present,
and make it so beautiful
that it will be
worth remembering.
‹Ida Scott Taylor
Good Luck Montgomery-Lonsdale-Le Center Titans! We wish you the best in all of your school activities, athletic and academic, during the next year.