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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 ::
Saluting the worker Kentucky Post
The year was 1904 and it was Labor Day.
Crowds lined the streets of Covington and Newport for a parade before moving on to a rally at Ludlow Lagoon Amusement Park. The rally and parade drew more than 30,000 union workers and supporters, according to estimates in The Kentucky Post.
The tradition of large-scale Labor Day celebrations had grown quickly in Northern Kentucky. Accounts of large-scale local labor parades began as early as 1898, just 15 years after Peter J. McGuire, who helped found the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, organized the nation's first labor parade in 1883. Oregon then became the first state to establish a labor holiday with President Grover Cleveland signing the bill creating the Labor Day holiday in 1894.------------------------------------------- posted 6:34 AM :: reference link ::
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