Labor Day 2022 Celebration
The Post was an early and strong supporter of the movement. As early as 1836, the publisher William Cullen Bryant wrote: “Forbid the right of association for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well immediately bind him to a master.” New York hosted the first Labor Day parade, when 10,000 workers marched from City Hall to Union Square. As the movement grew, so did the parades and celebrations....