Labour Day 2010 SMS, Messages & Greetings

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Labor day is celebrated in United States on the first Monday of September (September 6 in 2010) as a federal holiday.

On 5th of September in 1882, the first Labor Day in New York City in the United States was celebrated. In 1894, it became a federal holiday. The day would be filled with a street parade to allow the public to appreciate the work of the trade and labor organizations, it was originally intended. To amuse local workers and Labor originations, a festival was held after the parade. Speeches were held by well-known men and women in later years. In election years sometimes it is seen, but now a days it is less common. Every year, labor day is celebrated on the first Monday in September to add a holiday in the long gap between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

Initially, Labor Day was organized to celebrate various labor associations' strengths of and contributions to the United States economy. In modern times, mostly it is celebrated as a day of rest. And many people mark Labor Day as the end of the summer season and a last chance to make trips or hold outdoor events.

Labour Day messages:

1. Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.
It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was
originally purchased. ~Adam Smith

2. God sells us all things at the price of labor. ~Leonardo da Vinci

3. Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall

4. Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up
another. ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

5. A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe,
for felicity. ~Thomas Jefferson

6. God give me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done. ~Epitaph of Winifred Holtby

7. Pagels, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch
out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken

8. Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the
next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.
~Bill Dodds