Labor Day became a federal holiday because of politics under President Grover Cleveland.
This article offers a bit on the history of how Labor Day was started and how and why it came to be a federal holiday .
...someone suggested a parade and picnic to celebrate workers and unions at a meeting in New York in 1882. Though the event was planned mostly by Irish immigrants, ads were translated into German. Alcohol was banned.
It was scheduled for Sept. 5, a Tuesday, meaning most of the demonstrators were skipping work. Divisions came from Jersey City, Brooklyn, Harlem and other areas, and they gathered on Canal Street. More than 20,000 people marched up Broadway to Bryant Park, a little under three miles, holding banners and singing songs about the eight-hour workday and other union demands.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the (more...)
