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Do you think that most of the people know the history of Labor Day and how it came about to be a national holiday? Its origins would be unknown to most people since it’s more popularly acknowledged as the conclusion of the summer months, a day for the family, for leisure, and a time to party, and also that it is always on the 1st Monday of the month of September. This also utilized to become the beginning of another school year other than then schools have started resumption of their classes in August instead but the weekend of Labor Day is always full of summer programs and people flocking to the beaches to enjoy the last of the summer holidays.

The Labor Day celebration and its recognition as the national holiday is a hundred year old tradition. What started out as just a labor union event later came to symbolize the ending of summer and also the beginning of fall. All of this began in the year 1882 in New York; it was while Knights of Columbus members decided to acknowledge the citizen workers and wanted other people to appreciate the contributions of the working class towards society. The organization arranged for a huge procession honoring the working class citizens later in 1884. The Knights selected the month of September, with the first Monday of the month to hold the procession and all the other celebrations thereafter. That was exactly how Labor Day came to be celebrated every 1st Monday of September.

Similarly, the Socialist Party held a celebration in honor of the working class on May first, a date that became known as May Day. It was celebrated by both Socialists and Communists, thus in the United States, the very first Monday in September was selected to disassociate itself from any identification with Communism.

Toward the end of the last decade of the 1800’s, labor organizations to lobby state legislatures to observe Labor Day as an official state vacation. In 1887, the first states declared it a state holiday: Oregon, Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. In 1894, Congress passed a law that specified Labor Day as an official national holiday.

Currently Labor Day is celebrated in the United States, Canada, and other industrialized countries. Although in the U.S. it is a general holiday, which also designates the end of the summer season; in European countries its roots to the working class remains clear.

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