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In Canada workers striked demanding a 9-hour work day, also known as the Nine-Hour Movement.

In 1882, American labor leader Peter J. McGuire witnessed one of these labor festivals in Toronto. Inspired from Canadian events in Toronto, he returned the USA, to New York and organized the first American "Labor Day" on September 5 of the same year.

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