Show Labor or Day a aThe The first man to suggest a aday aday aday day be set aside in honor of or labor the labor the working man and the spirit of or industry in the nation was nation was probably Peter McGuire He was President of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Jointers of America in 1882 when his suggestion suggestion suggestion sug sug- was adopted by the Central Labor Union in New York THE FIRST Labor Day then was observed in 1882 In 1884 the Federation or Organized Organized Or Or- Organized Trades and Labor Unions which later became the American Federation of Labor adopted the suggestion and states Oregon was the first began to declare the first Monday in September a holiday McGuire had chosen September because it was about midway between July and Thanksgiving By 1894 when Congress declared declared declared de de- the day a holiday in all federal offices and territories some thirty states had acted to make Labor Day a legal holiday After Oregon Colorado Colo Colorado Colo Colo- Colorado rado Massachusetts New Jersey and New York were the next to declare the holi holi- day ONE GOOD feature of oC Labor Day the traditional last weekend weekend weekend week week- end of oC summer in many areas is that it always falls on a Monday thus creating a long weekend This has been so popular the proposed world calendar fixes several traditional traditional traditional holidays in the year on Mondays though Mondays though this calen- calen 1 i dar hasn't yet been adopted of course This year Labor Day is on the the as late as it can ocAs oc oc- cur As on other holidays there will be many accidents in observing it this year take care to see that you live to observe other Labor Days |