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Labor Day

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Labor Day is a national holiday established by the labor movement to pay tribute to the social and economic contributions of American workers to the prosperity and well-being of the United States.

First organized and celebrated in New York City by the Central Labor Union on September 5, 1882, it became a national holiday in 1894. It is recognized annually on the first Monday in September.

Although there is disagreement over who first proposed the celebration, two men are widely mentioned as the founders of Labor Day. Matthew McGuire, a machinist and later secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Patterson, New Jersey, and secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York, and Peter McGuire, a carpenter, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, and cofounder of the American Federation of Labor.

Labor Day has become known as the customary end of the summer season and start of the new school year.

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