Labor Day Activities: In the United States and Canada, a September holiday, called Labor Day, was first proposed in the early 1880s. In 1887, Oregon was the first state of the United States to make it an official public holiday. By the time it became an official federal holiday in 1894, thirty of the fifty U.S. states officially celebrated Labor Day. Thus by 1887 in North America, Labor Day was an established official holiday, but in September, not on May 1. May 1 was chosen to be International Workers’ Day to commemorate the May 4, 1886, Haymarket affair in Chicago where the police were trying to disperse a public assembly during a general strike for the eight-hour workday when an unidentified person threw a bomb at the police. The police responded by firing on the workers, killing four demonstrators. Today, a majority of countries around the world, including Pakistan, celebrate a workers’ day on May 1 to commemorate the social and economic achievements of workers. It is a public and national holiday. Currently, it is honored by every single organization in Pakistan to give respect to all those who worked, to those who are working and those who play an essential part in social as well as the economic well-being of the country and society.

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