Labor Day in the 1890s
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Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894 and Michiganians across the state celebrated. At Bement Park in Lansing (left) workers gathered and held a parade. The same year in the Detroit Labor Day Parade, cigar workers marched with this float (below) made by the Cigar Makers International Union.
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