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五一劳动节简介英文版 the history of labor day labor day differs in every essential from the other holidays of the year in any country, said samuel gompers, founder and longtime president of thhe american federation of labor. aall other hoolidays are in a more oor less degrree connecteed with confflicts and bbattles of mman‘s prowesss over man,, of strife and discordd for greed and power, of glories achieved byy one nationn over anothher. labor dday...is devvoted to no man, livingg or dead, tto no sect, race, or naation. laborr day, the ffirst mondayy in septembber, is a crreation of tthe labor moovement and is dedicateed to the soocial and ecconomic achiievements off american wworkers. it constitutess a yearly nnational triibute to thee contributiions workerss have made to the streength, prospperity and wwell-being oof our counttry. founderr of labor dday more thaan 100 yearss after the first laborr day observvance, theree is still ssome doubt aas to who fiirst proposeed the holidday for workkers. some rrecords showw that peterr j. mcguiree, general ssecretary off the brotheerhood of caarpenters annd joiners aand a co-fouunder of thee american ffederation oof labor, waas first in suggesting a day to hoonor those wwho from rudde nature haave delved aand carved aall the granndeur we behhold. but peeter mcguiree‘s place inn labor day history hass not gone uunchallengedd. many beliieve that maatthew maguiire, a machiinist, not ppeter mcguirre, founded the holidayy. recent reesearch seemms to supporrt the conteention that matthew magguire, laterr the secrettary of locaal 344 of thhe internatiional associiation of maachinists inn paterson, , proposed the holidayy in 1882 whhile servingg as secretaary of the ccentral laboor union in new york. wwhat is cleaar is that tthe central labor unionn adopted a labor day pproposal andd appointed a committeee to plan a demonstratiion and picnnic. the firrst labor daay the firstt labor day holiday wass celebratedd on t