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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - 834 pages
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Page 530 - District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the contract, in the employ of the contractor or any sub-contractor contractIng for any part of said work contemplated, shall be required or permitted to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day upon such work...
Page 545 - ... to require or permit any such laborer or mechanic to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency. SBC. 2. That any officer or agent of the Government of the United States...
Page 533 - the property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Page 539 - The provisions of this act shall not apply to agricultural products or live stock, while in the hands of the producer or raiser...
Page 49 - ACT relating to the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia. Be it enacted, etc. (1) That the service and employment of all laborers and mechanics who are now or may hereafter be employed by the government of the United States, by the District of Columbia...
Page 530 - ... and any officer or person designated as inspector of the work to be performed under any such contract, or to aid in enforcing the fulfillment thereof, shall, upon observation or investigation, forthwith report to the proper officer of the United States, or of any Territory, or of the District of Columbia...
Page 351 - ... shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.
Page 819 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every contract hereafter made to which the United States, any Territory, or the District of Columbia is a party, and every such contract made for or on behalf of the United States, or any Territory, or said District, which may require or involve the employment of laborers or mechanics shall contain a provision that no laborer or mechanic doing any part of the work contemplated by the...
Page 549 - In such contract of five dollars for each laborer or mechanic for every calendar day In which he shall be required or permitted to labor more than eight hours upon said work...
Page 820 - An act limiting the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon work done for the United States, or for any Territory, or for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes...

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