Eight-hour Law

(thing) by EverybodysCyclopedia Wed Jul 31 2002 at 21:08:40

Eight-hour Law, an act adopted in 1868 by the United States Congress, providing that in all government employment eight hours shall constitute a day's work.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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