http://www.gothamist.com/2004/09/06/labor_day.php All comments for Labor Day en-us 2007 nyc_daveh Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:32:49 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss daveh@gothamist.com daveh@gothamist.com 60 http://www.gothamist.com/2004/09/06/labor_day.php#comment-30281 http://www.gothamist.com/2004/09/06/labor_day.php#comment-30281 Comments Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:38:02 -0500 <p>The "History of Labor Day" link appears to be broken. NYC generally gave us "Labor Day," but I have an 1880 non-NYC citation on my Big Apple site, www.barrypopik.com.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2004/09/06/labor_day.php#comment-30280 http://www.gothamist.com/2004/09/06/labor_day.php#comment-30280 Comments Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:31:28 -0500 <p>From wikipedia: "Labor Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September in the United States and Canada since the 1880s. The September date has remained unchanged, even though the two governments were encouraged to adopt May 1 as Labor Day, the date celebrated by the majority of the world. Moving the holiday, in addition to violating U.S. tradition, could have been viewed as aligning U.S. labor movements with internationist sympathies."</p>