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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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