Labor Day in September 1882. In connection with this clandestine Knights assembly, a public parade of various labor organizations was held on September 5 under the auspices of the Central Labor Union (CLU) of New York. Secretary of the CLU Matthew Maguire is credited for first proposing that a national Labor Day holiday subsequently be held on the first Monday of each September in the aftermath of this successful public demonstration. An alternative thesis is maintained that the idea of Labor Day was the brainchild of Peter J. McGuire, a vice president of the American Federation of Labor, who put forward the
On the First Warm Day was long past its heyday, but Joyce became a highly respected part of it..." Eight months after Rosemary Clooney's death in June 2002, an Audio CD and MP3 album on the British Sepia label, "You're Just in Love (with Rosemary Clooney) The Early Hits", a compilation of 25 songs she recorded in the early 1950s, featured "On the First Warm Day" as one of the selections. Sixty years after its initial appearance, the song was rediscovered in May 2012 when the words in the opening lines indicating the month, "on the first warm day in May", were utilized in the