...more than eight hours as a day's labor. Massachusetts.— Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of any city or town in the Commonwealth upon acceptance of the statute by a majority ot voters presen...

...Labor's triumph seemed remarkably complete. The language of the law, which pronounced its application to "all laborers, workmen and mechanics . . . employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States," implied broad coverage of not only direct employees of the government but also...

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...city, township, or other municipality. JHnssachusetts.— Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of any city or town in the Commonwealth. Employment of minors under eighteen years of age and women in...

...measure involved a congressional statute providing that eight hours should constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States. The statute was unanimously sustained. 47 In 1891 the state of Kansas enacted...

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...work done by contractors for the government. Congress first adopted a law constituting eight hours a day for all laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States on June 25, 1868. By an Act approved May 24, 1888, the eight-hour law was extended...

...act of Congress approved June 25, 1868, constituted on and after that date eight hours a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States, and repealed acts and parts of acts inconsistent therewith : Now, therefore,...