Labor history of the United States losing money anyway. They were successful in times of prosperity when the company was losing profits and wanted to settle quickly. The Federation made some efforts to obtain favorable legislation, but had little success in organizing or chartering new unions. It came out in support of the proposal, traditionally attributed to Peter J. McGuire of the Carpenters Union, for a national Labor Day holiday on the first Monday in September, and threw itself behind the eight hour movement, which sought to limit the workday by either legislation or union organizing. In 1886, as the relations between the trade union movement
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