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HISTORY

. . . and its Intriguing Path
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2017... LABOR DAY!

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abor Day. "The founding of our beloved United States is impacted
by ever so many stirring events that attribution might well be afforded to Providence as well as to coincidence. It strikes me that

the story of Labor Day is a case in point."

The Honorable Stephen J. McEwen, Jr.
"An invaluable source of professional wisdom"
History... and its Intriguing Path
The members of the First Continental Congress first gathered on the
morning of Monday, September 5, 1774 - how ironic that the first Monday
of September, 110 years later in 1884, would be designated and celebrated
as Labor Day. Hearken now, for that irony is even deeper and brighter.
When the members of that Congress assembled in Philadelphia early on
that first Monday of September in the City Tavern at Second and Walnut
Streets, the threshold item of business was a vote upon the place where sessions of the Congress should be conducted: the Pennsylvania State House,
as recommended by the conservatives, or Carpenter's Hall, as urged by the
radicals.
The majority voted to meet in Carpenter's Hall, the Chamber of the
Carpenter's Guild, so as to symbolize a bond between the Congress and
America's labor force, men likely to be the backbone of the Continental
army. Thus it was that the First Congress assembled that afternoon, and
thereafter, in Carpenter's Hall.
Imagine! The first session of the First Continental Congress was conducted on Labor Day - in Philadelphia's Chamber of Labor!
Not Even Dicta, Steve McEwen, President Judge, Superior Court of
Pennsylvania, 1996-2001
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