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Today is Labor Day.

We celebrate “the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our nation.”

The first Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York City.

The Central Labor Union held a second Labor Day a year later, and began urging similar organizations to follow its lead in celebrating a “workingman’s holiday.”

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Labor Day is generally celebrated with a street parade… but it wasn’t always like that.

The first few Labor Days were celebrated in style, which included ample amounts of cigars, kegs of lager and picnics. Nineteenth century unions knew how to take a holiday.

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No one is 100 percent sure if McGuire or Maguire founded Labor Day.

Many believe the founder of Labor Day was a man named Peter J. McGuire, a co-founder of the American Federation of Labor.

But others say that it was actually Matthew Maguire -- a machinist who served as secretary for the Central Labor Union.

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Oregon was the first state to legally declare Labor Day a holiday.

That same year -- 1887 -- also saw Colorado, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey follow in the tradition.

A total of 28 states had deemed Labor Day a state holiday by 1894, which was the same year President Grover Cleveland made it a national holiday.

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“No white after Labor Day” is more symbolic than a rule. Typically, city-dwellers that were well-off enough to vacation during the hot months of summer wore white, not only as a means of escaping the heat but also as a fashionable symbol of their flight from the gritty city. In the cooler months, they would return and pull out the darker clothing, thus stowing away the breezy white apparel.

Since Labor Day is unofficially considered the end of summer, it became a guideline for the transition from warm weather to cool weather, and thus the wardrobe change from white to dark became tradition.

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Americans’ jobs are as varied as we are. Here’s a sample of the common and not-so-common U.S. occupations:

•Teachers: 3,039,523
•Computer operators: 101,889
•Actors: 10,980
•Telephone operators: 32,394
•Bus drivers: 265,429
•Bakers: 117,405
•Telemarketers: 55,733
•Hairdressers, stylists or cosmetologists: 395,503
•Janitors or building cleaners: 1,478,204

In September 1883, New York workers staged a parade up Broadway to Union Square. Few, if any, workers got the day off. Most were warned against marching in the parade with the threat of getting fired. Despite the warning, more than 10,000 workers showed up for the march.

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Most Americans consider Labor Day a uniquely American experience, but Labor Day actually has its origins in Canada.

Stemming from 1870’s labor disputes in Toronto, a parade was held in 1872 in support of a strike against the 58-hour workweek.

As a result, 24 union leaders who were responsible for organizing the event were arrested under anti-union laws

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Happy Labor Day to all