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Show imtv 1 " ""V i "'',, I - V ' i f -if $v- ' .v.' v.- t: ,, . . - ' I - ', VS" i - - - ' t i : - -.-ft r- .. . (j i " V l j HEROIC SI. ED DOG . . . Rcp- 1 rcsenlaiive of thousands of war ' ! and peacetime dops is Ballo. ' heroic sled dos !!1 M d rrum ' to Nome, Alaska, and is commem- ' i orated i" statuary in Central , 1 park, New Vork Cily. Labor Has Earned The Right to Celebrate Labor Day, observed on the first Monday in September, has come I to be one of the rnpst generally cele brated holidays in the United State; and Canada. Credit for the origin of the occasion occa-sion probably must be divideo equally between the Central Laboi union of New York and the ole Knights of Labor. Both organiza ! lions, with many members in com 1 i mon, were in session in New York 1 in the spring of 1882. At a meeting of the union on May 18 of that year I Peter J. McQuire, a delegate j iftd that "a day should be se j as:de as a festive day during which a por:,de through the streets of th city 'would permit a public tribute i to American industry." His proposal was adopted arc the first Labor Day celebration oc j curred on September 5. 1S?2 will i a parade in New York City. Pro I gressive Oregon was the first s:ati j to make Labor Day a leg,al hol.tiay I This was done February 21, lLc.7 |