COLORADO: THE SECOND STATE TO ADOPT LABOR DAY [Denver Public Library]
by KATIE RUDOLPH on September 1, 2015
On March 15, 1887, Colorado’s Sixth General Assembly passed a law designating the first Monday in September as a holiday honoring workers. Less than a month earlier, Oregon had been the first state to create an official labor holiday. President Grover Cleveland signed legislation that made Labor Day a federal holiday on June 28, 1894. READ MORE
Plumbers Local #3 Labor Day, DPL Western History Collection X-23794
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