“The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883,” advises the official history of the U.S. Labor Dept.
Monday's Labor Day is the 143rd commemoration of holiday that started in New York
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