The Eight Hour Commission Reports, 1918-1943
Collection Number: 6026
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
The Eight Hour Commission Reports, 1918-1943
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
6026
Abstract:
Reports of the Eight Hour Commission, which was appointed by the US President to observe
the effects of instituting an eight hour standard workday.
Creator:
The Eight Hour Commission
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
The Eight Hour Commission was comprised of three appointees of the US President to
to observe and report on the effects of the eight hour workday. The Commission was
established by the US Senate in September 191.
This collection consists of Reports of the Eight Hour Commission from 1918, as well
as a 1943 reproduction of a report from 1917.
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
The Eight Hour Commission Reports #6026. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Commission of Eight
Commission of Eight --Archives
Subjects:
Collective labor agreements--Railroads--United States
Railroads--Employees-- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Railroads--Employees--Hours of labor-- United States
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Report of the Eight-Hour Commission
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1918 | |
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Scope and Contents
Commission on standard workday of railroad employees, created by Act of Congress approved
September 3 and 5, 1916, 39 Statutes at Large, page 721, section 2. 503 pp.
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| Box 1 |
Report of Commission of Eight
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1918 | |
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Scope and Contents
Minutes of the Commission: May 7, 1917 through March 23, 1918. Includes Memoranda
of Principles for Application of Eight-Hour Settlement of Existing Schedules. 320
pp.
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| Box 1 |
Reproduction of the Report of the Eight-Hour Commission
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1943 | |
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Scope and Contents
June 1, 1943. Appendixes I, II, III, IV, V, VIII, and X Omitted.
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