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Labor Day:

Labor Day:. Origins of a Holiday. Quiz. 1. Labor Day is celebrated on September 1 st The first Monday in September The first Monday after the Summer Equinox The first Monday after the Fall’s new moon. The first Monday in September. 2. The first Labor Day parade was held

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Labor Day:

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  1. Labor Day: Origins of a Holiday

  2. Quiz 1. Labor Day is celebrated on • September 1st • The first Monday in September • The first Monday after the Summer Equinox • The first Monday after the Fall’s new moon

  3. The first Monday in September

  4. 2.The first Labor Day parade was held • Tues., Sept. 5, 1882 • Mon., Sept. 4, 1882 • Sat., Sept. 1, 1901 • Mon., Sept. 12, 1946

  5. Tues., Sept. 5, 1882

  6. 3. The purpose of the first parades was • To celebrate a newfound prosperity • To fight for the inclusion of women in the workforce • To rally for the adoption of an 8-hr. work day • To celebrate the workers of America

  7. To rally for the adoption of an 8-hr. work day

  8. How much money will an average Utah family spend on Labor Day weekend (2008)? • $325 • $578 • $826 • $177

  9. $826

  10. United States is the only country to celebrate Labor Day. • True • False

  11. False. Canada, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands celebrate it also. It is also quite similar to May Day (a day to celebrate laborers), which is celebrated through much of the world.

  12. 6. What is not to be worn after Labor Day?

  13. White (esp. shoes) and straw hats.

  14. Labor Day • First observed in September of 1882. • First Labor Day Parade was done by the Knights of Labor. • Oregon was the first state to make it a legal holiday in 1887. • In 1894, President Cleveland made it a national holiday.

  15. State Traditions • Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival • Bumbershoot Art Festival in Washington • Kansas City Irish Festival • Taste of Cleveland Festival in Ohio

  16. BOOMSDAY! • Boomsday is held annually in Knoxville, Tennessee on Labor Day as the largest firework display in the Southern United States, attracting 325,000 people.

  17. Labor Day Fashion and Tradition • White clothes should not be worn after Labor Day (originally it was white shoes). • Before Labor day in the west, you wear a straw hat. After and until Memorial Day, you wear a felt hat. Straw hat Felt Hat

  18. Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day. . .is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.- Samuel Gompers, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor

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