 | Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt - 1883 - 354 sider
...f.xrmers it is frequently from sunrise until sunset. — Revised Statutes, § 3738. June 28, 1868. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics who may be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the US US "8 hour law. Fourteen days=one "... | |
 | W. Cave Tait - 1884 - 194 sider
...of the act of Congress approved June 25 1868 entitled an act constituting eight hours a legal days work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States, eight hours constitute a days work for all such laborers, workmen... | |
 | New Jersey. Bureau of Industrial Statistics - 1885 - 480 sider
...labor. The act of Congress of June 25th, 1868, provided that eight hours should constitute a legal day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the General Government;* and the example thus set has induced the passage of eight hour laws in a few... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1885 - 1000 sider
...act of Congress of June 25, 1868, being section :5738 of the Revised Statutes, which provided that " eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics now employed, or who may hereafter be employed, by or on behalf of the government of the United States,"... | |
 | 1885 - 524 sider
...May 31, 1871, 13 Op. 424. 5. The provisions of the act of June 25. 1 868, chap. 72, declaring that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanies employed by or on behalfof the United States, are not applicable to mechanies, workmen, and... | |
 | John Lord Hayes - 1886 - 32 sider
...In this case the Supreme Court holds (1) that the act of Congress of June 25, 1848, declaring that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all...workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States, is in the nature of a direction by the Government to its agents.... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1887 - 876 sider
...to K..»ton, .-iiy <>f. withdraw, on the petition .of the mayor of Boston for a law providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the city of Boston. Severally read and placed in the Orders of the Day for to-morrow. By Mr. Phillips,... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives - 1887 - 1012 sider
...committee on Labor, leave to withdraw, on the petition of the m:iyor of Boston for a law providing that eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by the city of Boston;, and Of the committee on Street Railways, inexpedient to legislate, on orders relative... | |
 | 1887 - 430 sider
...measure that has long been the subject of agitation lias become a law this year. It provides that " nine hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen and mechanics, now employed or who may be employed by or on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or any county,... | |
 | Canada. Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital - 1889 - 204 sider
...labor shall be inserted as one of the clauses of the contract. Congress has also passed a law that " eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all...workmen and mechanics employed by, or on behalf of, the Government of the United States." That a corresponding reduction of pay does not necessarily follow... | |
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Hours a Day's Work for all Laborers, Workmen, and Mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States. 
