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History.com: How a Deadly Railroad Strike Led to the Labor Day Holiday

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When the federal government was called in to suppress a railroad workers' strike, dozens were killed and politicians sought a way to show they still supported workers. July 1894, President Grover Cleveland finally signed into law legislation creating a national Labor Day holiday in early September.

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