LABOR DAY, First Monday in September. The only day when labor works overtime.
An occasion when the workingman takes a cane in place of a dinnerpail
and proudly tramps the streets behind a real silk banner
and a Hod Carrier on a Cart Horse. ~The Foolish Dictionary (1905)
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