September
8
Labor Day
ABOUT LABOR DAY
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. (U.S. Department of Labor)
This bookplate illustrates the motto with an ant because ants are proverbially hard-working (like in Aesop’s fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper).
Here is a U.S. Postage stamp from 1956 in honor of the holiday: Labor is life.
The image below shows a Labor Day poster from 1942, with Labor smashing the Axis powers:
