May I respectfully correct Peter Mayo’s assumption that the United States does not celebrate workers and hold a Labour Day.

President Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897, signed into federal law the Statutory National Holiday, Labor Day, in 1894.

It is and always has been celebrated on the first Monday in September.

As May 1, as a labour celebration, has been associated with communism and Russia, it is hardly a day Americans would choose.

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