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that a mule can travel about 3 miles per hour, covering 24 miles in an eight-hour day. In a translation by J. B. Bury (Priscus, fr. 8 in Fragmenta Historicorum

trustees to sit on the separate school board. Voters also approved an eight-hour day for firefighters. The election would normally have been held on November

member of Work Council tasked by the government with implementing the eight hour day. Göran Jakobsson (12 January 2008): Ett namn som blev en bok Archived

seven children. He became a publican and an organising secretary of the Eight Hour Day Committee from around 1912 to 1917. In 1917 he was elected to the New

Hotel (1850) State Library of Victoria (1854) Scots' Church (1874) Eight Hour Day Monument, commemorating Melbourne's labour movement to adopt the 8 hour

wages across the railway companies and the introduction of a maximum eight hour day. "Circular: National negotiations". mrc-catalogue.warwick.ac.uk. NUR

route impossible. For example, after winning a referendum vote for the eight-hour day with support from 72 percent of Colorado's electorate, the WFM's goal

legislation and call conferences to discuss matters. It intended to obtain an eight-hour day "from bank to bank" for all underground workers, attend inquests and

been paid $2.50 for a ten-hour day were demanding the same pay for an eight-hour day. Mine owners offered nine hours pay ($2.25), arguing they could not

It was a major achievement of the Labour Party, which revoked the eight hour day that had been enacted in 1926, replacing it with a 7 1⁄2 hour day. Mine

Edwin Halford, Andrew Hopkinson, and Shaftoe, on a platform of an eight-hour day for municipal workers, and municipal contracts to employ trade union

Halford, Andrew Hopkinson, and Samuel Shaftoe, on a platform of an eight-hour day for municipal workers, and for municipal contracts to employ trade union

Halford, Andrew Hopkinson, and Samuel Shaftoe, on a platform of an eight-hour day for municipal workers, and for municipal contracts to employ trade union

high school, middle school, and elementary in one building. A normal eight-hour day consists of Science, History, Choir or Band, Bible, a flex period, Spanish

promoted the social and cultural uplift of the worker, and demanded the eight-hour day. In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating with employers

Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. He was a pioneer of the eight-hour day principle, which was first implemented by the South Australian Railways

secretary of the Moulders' Union from 1897 to 1908, secretary of the Eight-Hour Day Committee from 1906 to 1923, and secretary of the Queensland Trades

Melbourne Herald where he won the poetry prize in 1885 for a poem about the Eight Hour Day. After dismissal he earned his living from his writing and was published

in the early 1900s. She led the successful efforts to establish the eight-hour day and the $10 per week minimum wage for Washington women in 1913. She

Awl" 2:29 2. "The Blind Fiddler" 1:17 3. "Buffalo Skinners" 2:44 4. "Eight-Hour Day" 1:00 5. "Hard Times in the Mill" 2:16 6. "Roll Down the Line" 3:15

laid down five tracks at Vancouver's Telesound Studios, including "Eight Hour Day" and "Get Away from It All" (both O'Toole/Jurgensen compositions) and

1889, and served in that role during their six-week 1890 strike for an eight-hour day. He was subsequently appointed by the union to serve as their advocate

involved in a campaign among mechanics at Kooringa, near Burra, for an eight-hour day, becoming their spokesperson. He went to Bendigo during the Victorian

have been caused by his strident support for the legal enactment of an eight-hour day for agricultural workers. Duffus was elected to the Legislative Assembly

achieved a maximum nine-hour working day. In 1920, the union achieved an eight-hour day and further wage increases. A national executive was appointed to lead

the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, in 1889, and supported its eight-hour day policy, but argued that it could not occur in South Wales because of

originated with a general strike on 1 May 1886 in the campaign for the eight-hour day in the United States, which culminated in the Haymarket affair in Chicago

it supported legislation establishing the eight-hour day. The union also struck to obtain the eight-hour day, calling a strike of its affiliates for May

gives the rate of doing work or power. A laborer over the course of an eight-hour day can sustain an average output of about 75 watts; higher power levels

elected as the union's president, in which role, he campaigned for an eight-hour day. In 1897, he was again elected as secretary of the union, and also sat

around Butte. They hoped the strike would help secure higher wages, an eight-hour day, and end the use of the rustling card, a system that allowed employers

during this decade. He became deeply involved in the campaign for the eight-hour day and a member of the Greenback Labor Party after moving in 1878 to St

published in this period include Woman Workers and Labor Supply, The Eight-Hour Day Defined, U.S. Cost of Living Index, and a series of reports on Workers'

South Australian Gas Company’s Employees’ Association committed to an eight-hour day. In 1914, members joined the Federated Gas Employees Industrial Union

of eight pages, and there were some special editions (such as the "Eight hour day"). Some initial editions were printed by J. Thom at the Sun Buildings

twentieth centuries, trade union banners were unfurled with pride in annual Eight Hour Day marches which advocated 'Eight Hours Labour, Eight Hours Recreation

manual laborer performs work equal to about half a kilowatt-hour over an eight-hour day. To convert a quantity measured in a unit in the left column to the

at the congress were wealthy women. They were willing to vote for an eight-hour day for factory workers, but baulked at giving the same terms to their maids

opposed the disruption of war production by strikes, it supported an eight-hour day for workers, equal pay for women, and the right to organize unions and

Who in State Politics: 1910. Boston: Practical Politics. 1910. "The Eight-Hour Day and Prohibition of Night Work. Report of Public Hearing before Committee

forced the company to give up its 12-hour day and adopt the standard eight-hour day. During the 1920s, U.S. Steel, like many other large employers, coupled

War Labor Board that eliminated war-time restrictions, giving them an eight-hour day and a wage hike. Denver Tramway, violating the board's orders, cut the

the Senators stood on the linked issues of the eight - hour day and the Colegiado . On the eight - hour day there were "12 in favour, one doubtful and nothing

camp site near Maryborough during the Sugar Workers strike of 1911. Workers wanted an eight-hour day and higher wages. Tents appear in the background.

unhappy that she did not focus much attention on the campaign for an eight-hour day, and in 1900, Irwin decided not to stand for re-election. However, she

Dental Insurance, Bereavement Leave, Protection against Discrimination, Eight-hour day, Retirement Benefits, Sickness benefits, Forty-hour Week, Holiday Pay

Factory Act limited the workweek to 56.5 hours. The movement toward an eight-hour day. Furthermore, system of routine annual vacations came into play, starting

Commonwealth Celebrations Committee and a long-standing secretary of the Eight Hour Day committee. He was an unsuccessful Labor candidate at the 1903 Tamworth

student farm workers earned 17 and a half cents an hour and worked an eight-hour day. Additionally, Wellesley College, Blackburn College, Massachusetts Agricultural

union focused on forcing postmasters to honor federal law mandating an eight-hour day for federal employees. In 1893, the NALC won a Supreme Court decision

improving the working conditions of his staff and gave his workers the "Eight-hour day" without delay, giving them 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of play and 8 hours

in an effort to improve working conditions. One such union was the Eight Hour Day movement, which was initiated in Queensland in 1858 by stonemasons working

produced its 100,000th magneto. In the same year, Bosch introduced the eight-hour day for workers. In 1910, the Feuerbach plant was founded and built close

result of a WFM proposal to the Telluride Mining Association for the eight-hour day. The new association consolidated the power of thirty-six mining properties

ridiculous. We were militant about the working conditions. We wanted an eight-hour day like everybody else." Hobart also served on the board of the Screen

the British fishing industry. He supported shorter working hour (an eight-hour day) for employees, particularly railways employees. . Beaufoy was buried

are also 70 small silk banners made for unions to carry on the annual eight-hour day processions. These were made by the Committee (who had offices in the

during the era of the Third Republic, which included such reforms as an eight-hour day for miners, a ten-hour day for many workers, the lowering of mandatory

2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed 14 Feb 2007 The First Dispute:The Eight Hour Day GMB History Archived 3 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine accessed 22

twenty-nine demands, including the right to collective bargaining, the eight-hour day, price controls, and workers' rights to run and hold public office.

illegal for French children under the age of 12 to work more than an eight-hour day, but Bouvier worked in one of the many factories that ignored the law

that the contractors should have been required to abide by terms of an eight-hour day that had just been ordered in new state legislation. He was, however

on which the labor leaders stood in Haymarket Square to champion the eight-hour day. The 3,200-pound sculpture features a faceless human figure orating

1937 helped tobacco workers in Virginia successfully agitate for an eight-hour day and pay increases. The tobacco workers held the first strike in Virginia

later, in 1924, the factory was turning out 125 manure spreaders in an eight-hour day. and “became the brand that set the standards for spreader performance

(HMS Paragon) onshore listening base. The workers there would work an eight hour day which was a third of the day. During the next two days they would work

the softest ride. Workers were paid 10 shillings and sixpence for an eight-hour day, also working a half-day on Saturdays. They were accommodated in tents

Administration.) The Adamson Act, enacted in 1916, provided workers with an eight-hour day at the same daily wage they had received previously for a ten-hour day

productive land; labor reforms including workman's compensation and the eight-hour day; but also the right of the government to intervene in strikes. According

the Russian employers, who reacted to the forced introduction of the eight-hour day with factory closures that left 100,000 workers on the street, the Soviet

his time as Prime Minister, a decree of February 1920 introduced the eight-hour day for seamen. When Deschanel had to resign later in 1920 due to his mental

league as new teams for the 1926–27 season. Henry Ford introduced the eight-hour day and five-day workweek. The League of Nations Slavery Convention abolished

appointment to the Legislative Council in 1908. He served as president of the Eight Hour Day Committee and was a member of the central executive of the Labor Party

running the agency to others, saying "she's not spent one, single, eight-hour day in her office since May of 1998." She defeated Pope handily and then

the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Coal Strike of 1902. The eight-hour day was eventually adopted, and the coal and iron police were banned. At

radical version of liberalism: adult suffrage and one man one vote; an eight-hour day and a minimum wage; a tax on unimproved land values, an absentee tax

Contract at Metro--Mae Busch Named for Part in 'Antoinette' Actors May Ask Eight-Hour Day Coast Scripts Of Local Origin MUSIC NOTES". New York Times. Feb 5, 1938

largely at the expense of wage earners and the economic middle class. The eight-hour day, one of the main social achievements of the 1918/19 revolution, was

securing the Adamson Act, a federal law that provided 10 hours' pay for an eight-hour day. At the end World War I, the brotherhoods promoted the "Plumb Plan"

The previous Liberal MP had gone against the miners by opposing the eight-hour day, nationalisation and the abolition of fines, which he thought would

support a May Day demonstration, in support of the movement for an eight-hour day, while at the 1894 Leicester by-election, it backed Joseph Burgess,

inactive during World War I, and after the war, its campaigns for an eight-hour day, minimum wage and union recognition led to widespread strikes. These

for the city when a general strike occurred there, in a fight for the eight-hour day and the banning of child labor.[page needed] Industrial production continued

reforms in the working condition of the workers: the establishment of the eight-hour day in 1896, a pension scheme in 1906, a five-day work week and work councils

provisions of the Trade Boards Act of 1909, while Runciman was against the eight-hour day for miners and compensation for workers. Burns, Bryce, Loreburn, and

Closing Movement (ECM), an organization tied to labor history, the eight-hour day movement, and indirectly, the Temperance movement's efforts to regulate

Board decision. The Railroad Administration was the first to grant the eight hour day with wage increases, after which the three other administrations followed

extension of railway network in the province, labour laws, such as eight-hour-day legislation 2 Arthur Sifton (1858–1921) 26 May 1910 30 October 1917

delegation in Baltimore that he could not directly commit himself to an eight-hour day, he nevertheless told the same delegation that he greatly favoured the

May 1891, at Fourmies, a workers' demonstration took place for the eight-hour day; confrontations with the police followed. The police opened fire on

Miners, 1881–1918, p. 89 Neil Rainford, Statism, Voluntarism and the Eight-hour Day, p.56 Roy Gregory, The Miners and British Politics 1906–1914, p. 104

Eight-hour day banner, Melbourne, 1856

demonstration of 20,000 workers, including black workers, demanding an eight-hour day and supporting the Paris Commune. From 1872 to 1874 Sorge was general

the Boyce case, upholding an act of the Legislature providing for an eight-hour day for men laboring in mines, smelters and ore-reduction works. In Nash

leading role in negotiations in which railway workers won the right to an eight-hour day and time and a half overtime pay with the passage of the Adamson Act

Contest Boxing between legendary Les Darcy and Bob Whitelaw was held on Eight Hour Day morning, November 1913. After 20 hard rounds, Whitelaw was awarded the

Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-306-80154-9. This petition asked for "an eight-hour day, a minimum daily wage of one ruble (fifty cents), a repudiation of bungling

gains in efficiency that were assumed to result. He claimed that the eight-hour day led "to suburbanization, the increase of workers' gardens, greater attendance

Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations on 1 May 1986 at the Melbourne Eight Hour Day monument

season, Raheem recalled: The adult males would work their permanent eight-hour day jobs and arrive at the restaurant in time to eat dinner before the extremely

in Parliament for numerous reforms, including old-age pensions, an eight-hour day for miners, and meal provisions for schoolchildren. In November 1905

founded. Horses gave the cavalry forces significant mobility: during an eight-hour day a distance of 35 miles (56 km) could be covered without fatiguing horse

Party was published. Among the main policies of the program were the eight-hour day, prohibition of child labor, minimum wage, compensation for accidents

Eight Hour Day Memorial in Melbourne

Odin Mine was fully developed by 1902 with a tonnage of 1000 tons per eight hour day employing 200 men. The mine worked above average until 1924 when the

Cap. XXIX (Brooke, 1797). Hand, Learned. "Due Process of Law and the Eight-Hour Day", Harvard Law Review, Vol. 21, Issue 7 , p. 495 (1907-1908). Coke, Edward

industrial capitalism, supporting causes such as the single tax, the eight-hour day and equal suffrage, and opposing militarism. By April 1896, the Sun

a new government was in place on 31 January 1927. It legislated the eight hour day and unemployment insurance. On 18 September 1927 Hindenburg spoke at

pergola a short distance away to Lundie Gardens. Also in South Australia, Eight Hour Day, 13 October 1915, was renamed Anzac Day and a carnival was organised

range of reforms, including women's suffrage, worker's rights (unions, eight-hour day, right to strike, pensions), the elimination of latifundios through

Commission. When the Commission's report came out, it recommended an eight-hour day for children under thirteen, with a declared aim of allowing mills to

It was during this time that he became known for establishing the eight-hour day policy: “Flesh and blood cannot stand twelve hours of continuous work

Workers sought better accommodation, wages and conditions, including an eight-hour day and a minimum weekly wage of 30 shillings, including food. The mobilisation

when hostilities ceased, but wages had increased significantly, the eight-hour day had been extended to boatmen and rivermen, and raw materials were more

structure, promotion of collective bargaining, minimum wage scales, and the eight-hour day... ." There is nothing in [Adams book] which would support the view

conditions for the termination of employment. Division I establishes the eight-hour day and forty hour week but permits averaging if the profession demands

of Louisiana went on strike to make a demand for to be limited to an eight-hour day and an increase in their wages to 25 cents an hour. Russia agreed to

relations history of NSW as it was the first site to be awarded an eight-hour day for stonemasons, the first tradesmen to be granted it. Mariners' Church

productive land; labor reforms including workman's compensation and the eight-hour day; but also defended the right of the government to intervene in strikes

alongside Samuel M. "Golden Rule" Jones and ghost-wrote the book "The Eight Hour Day." Casson married Lydia Kingsmill Commander just before moving to New

The Roosevelt Administration issued an executive order suspending the eight-hour day for mechanics and laborers employed by the War Department on public

which began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day by

article "The Eight Hours Question" Haldane rejected the idea of the eight-hour day. In 1888, he courted Emma Valentine Ferguson, sister of his Liberal

and the coolies of the rubber plantations. Their demands were for an eight hour day, trade union rights, rights of assembly, a free press, etc. The government

for pay and extra food. Pay for skilled male workers was 50 cents per eight-hour day; unskilled workers got 35 cents, and women and children 25 cents. Rice

sought unsuccessfully to get a bill passed to protect labor with an eight-hour day in the District of Columbia. Stevens advocated a bill to give government

were protections aimed at the health of women workers including an eight-hour day, six-day work week and no work between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a

growing number of state workers were entitled to permanent employment, an eight-hour day, medical benefits, subsidized food and housing, as well as an eight-grade

Channel Islands, Northern Ireland, and Police. Anderson worked an eight-hour day, from 10:15 in the morning to 18:15 each night, with an hour and a half

delegation in Baltimore that he could not directly commit himself to an eight-hour day, he nevertheless told the same delegation that he greatly favored the

non-union membership in order to get a permit to work.: 30, 32  The eight-hour day had been a major issue for the Western Federation of Miners throughout

miners in the nearby community of Cripple Creek went on strike for an eight-hour day, Slocum courageously walked through the picket lines in an effort to

Hanford Press, 1925; pg. 198. Allen, Passionate Commitments, pg. 279. The Eight Hour Day for Children. New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1914. Newspapers

Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Coal Strike of 1902. Eventually, the eight-hour day was adopted, and the "coal and iron police" were banned. Similarly In

attendees had no difficulty supporting a resolution that called for an eight-hour day for industrial workers, with a full day off, they had considerable difficulty

shorter hours. They were successful in aiding in the fight for the eight-hour day and hoped to further their accomplishments with an even lower 6-hour

mill-owners that adults as well as children should work no more than an eight-hour day. This led to a split with those factory reform leaders still pinning

better than the women could have expected elsewhere: they worked an eight-hour day and received a fair wage, daily hot lunches, and a yearly paid vacation

costs having increased, with higher wages, the introduction of an eight-hour day and the price of coal having risen. A scheme was devised whereby the

not be until the gas workers strike of 1889 that they would earn the eight-hour day. The gas stokers had a particularly harsh existence. The work was dirty

the Wobbly-led loggers' and sawmill workers' ongoing strike for the eight-hour day and sanitary conditions in the camps. The IWW was militant, radical

troubled Hand. In 1908, in his article "Due Process of Law and the Eight-Hour Day", he attacked the 1905 Supreme Court ruling in Lochner v. New York,

War Department Definition September 17, 1917 537 2705 Suspending the Eight-Hour Day in the Bureau of Standards September 20, 1917 538 2706 Authorizing Appointment

also involved a ban on labour for children 9 years old and younger, an eight-hour day on Saturday, and a ban on night working for children under the age of

no overtime pay. Mexican labor is never hired due to their national eight-hour day provision. When the rigging job is completed, the crew is sent back

Boston's leading speakers on issues such as child labor reform, the eight-hour day, and better wages and working conditions for women. In 1869 she joined

Left, which unions won in their heyday, such as the weekend and the eight-hour day, were won primarily by market means, often over strong government resistance;

distributed pamphlet, Kampf um den Achtstundentag ("Struggle for an eight hour day"). On his exclusion from the party at the end of 1929 he was accordingly