Show La labord labor borDal day IT TT IS DOUBTFUL if the little group of men who exposed proposed a parade by the knights of labor bor in new york in the fall of 1882 had bad the least idea of how the idea and the movement would spread here forty two years tear later we have labor day a legal holiday in all the states elates excepting possibly three of the western states always sways the first monday in september in europe there is a similar holiday observed on the first of may there in 1890 may day began to be observed as labor day with a demonstration toward the eight hour da day y there a as 9 here parades and addresses d r sea featuring prominent minds in the labor wor world mark the day and labor and everybody else almost for that matter takes a real do da off the knights of labor in 1882 and spain again in in 1884 held a parade in new lierk ork then they passed resolutions that all parades of thi the kind were to be held on the same day the first monday in september workers began agitation git for making the day a legal bo holiday iday colorado was the first to acquiesce the other states followed rapidly |