The first ever labor day was tuesday ,september, 5 ,1882. Some people think that Peter J. McGuire thought of labor day but other people think that Matthew Maguire thought of it.reserch seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguirech thought of the holiday labor day. By 1894, 23 other states had started to do the holiday in honor of workers, and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories. The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in many years. Especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and have proved a problem
