 | United States - 1961 - 804 páginas
...Congress a**fmbl>d, That beginning January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, eight hours snail, in contracts for labor and service, be deemed a day's...purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees who are now or may hereafter be employed by any common carrier by railroad, except... | |
 | 1917 - 948 páginas
...marks a new step in the settlement of labor controversies. The law provided that after Jan. 1, 1917, "eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service,...work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation " of employees engaged in operation of trains. Further, it required the President to appoint a commission... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 1414 páginas
...is assumed that the one excludes the other. The provision of section one that "eight hours shall ... be deemed a day's work and the measure or standard of a day's work," leaves no doubt about the first proposition. As to the second, this is equally true because of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1967 - 1384 páginas
...assumed that the one excludes the other. The provision of section one that " eight hours shall . . . be deemed a day's work and the measure or standard of a day's work," leaves no doubt about the first proposition. As to the second, this is equally true because of the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1970 - 286 páginas
...not prevented. . . ." 243 US, at 342. The Congress enacted a statute (39 Stat. 721) which provided that "eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and...for the purpose of reckoning the compensation" for railroad employees, and that "the compensation of railway employees subject to this Act for a standard... | |
 | Barry Cushman - 1998 - 333 páginas
...in September of 1916 in order to avert a general railway strike. Section one of the act had declared that "eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and...and the measure or standard of a day's work for the purposes of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees who are now or may hereafter be... | |
 | Eric Arnesen - 2007 - 1734 páginas
...political realities and the need for swift legislative action with the strike deadline looming. It stated that "eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and...work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation of all employees who are now or may hereafter be employed by any common carrier by railroad...." The... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - 1918 - 820 páginas
...Stats. 721, c. 436.] So far as applicable to this case, said Act provides that beginning January 1, 1917 "eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service,...purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees who are now or may hereafter be employed" by any railroad interstate carrier (with... | |
 | 1916 - 1138 páginas
...States of America in Congress assembled, That hepinning January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service,...purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employes who arc now or may hereafter he employed by any common carrier by rail•-oad, except... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1970 - 274 páginas
...was not prevented. ..." 243 US, at 342. The Congress enacted a statute (39 Stat. 721) which provided that "eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and...for the purpose of reckoning the compensation" for railroad employees, and that "the compensation of railway employees subject to this Act for a standard... | |
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That beginning January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service, be deemed a day's work... 
