...shnll constitute •> day's work for all laborers, workmen, 'mi- ;t08 chanics, or other persons no\v employed, or who may hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the state of Kansas, or by or on behalf of any county, city, township, or otl'<-r 191 TJ. S. 207,208 ATKIN...

...original eight-hour law (RS, 3738) contained no reference to ''public works," but applied in terms to "all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed...hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States." This statute proved ineffective because it was held to be not mandatory, but...

...24 L. Ed. 128, the Supreme Court declared that an act of Congress providing that "eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed ... by or on behalf of the Government of the United States," though not absolutely binding on independent...

...of the United States" became law. It reads as follows: "Be it enacted, etc., That eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen,...hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same...

...thereafter constitute a day's work for certain classes of Government employes. " Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen,...hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States." (See 15 Stat. at Large, p. 77, now Rev. Statutes, sec. 3738.) The jict is in...

...private establishments of a similar nature. On June 25, 1868, Congress enacted : That eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen...hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same...

...day's work for City and Town Employees. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen...who may hereafter be employed, by or on behalf of any city or town in this Commonwealth. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith...

...Representative! of the United States of America in Congrtsi assembled, That eight hours shall constitutes day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics...hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States; and that all acta and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same...

...wording of this statute, which was similar t<> the Xew York law, was as follows: Eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen,...employed, or who may hereafter be employed, by or on behulf of the government of the United States. In construing this act in 1876, Justice Hunt of the...

...been construed by two of my predecessors. St. 1890, c. 375, provided 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 city or town therein; and all...