Labor Day Word Search
This Labor Day word search honors American workers and the long fight for fair hours and pay: the labor union and the strike, the picket line, Gompers, Debs and Mother Jones, the call for eight hours a day, the weekend and the end of summer picnic.
The first Labor Day parade marched in New York City on September 5, 1882, organized by the Central Labor Union, and about 10,000 workers gave up a day's pay to take part. Oregon made it a state holiday in 1887. Who first proposed the day is still argued over: Peter McGuire, a carpenter, gets the credit in most accounts, but some historians name Matthew Maguire, a machinist.
Congress made it a national holiday in June 1894, while the Pullman strike was spreading across the railroads. President Grover Cleveland signed the bill within days, and a week later he sent federal troops to Chicago to break the strike. The eight hour day took decades longer: the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a federal minimum wage and, by 1940, a 40 hour week with overtime pay.
Free Labor Day Word Search Online Game
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Labor Day Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Labor Day word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
Print or Download pdfMedium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
Print or Download pdfEasy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Labor Day has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Bargaining
- Cesar Chavez
- Cleveland
- Contract
- Cookout
- Craft
- Debs
- Eight Hours
- Fair Wage
- Gompers
- Guild
- Hammock
- Hard Hat
- Haymarket
- Holiday
- Labor Union
- Lunch Pail
- Marchers
- McGuire
- Monday
- Mother Jones
- Overtime
- Parade
- Paycheck
- Picket
- Picnic
- Pullman
- Rally
- Safety
- Sales
- September
- Shirtwaist
- Solidarity
- Steelworker
- Strike
- Teamsters
- Toil
- Triangle
- Weekend
- Workers