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Página 16 - That no operator, train dispatcher, or other employee who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches, reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements shall be required or permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-fourhour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and day...
Página 16 - Provided, that no operator, train dispatcher, or other employe who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches, reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements shall be required or permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and day, nor for a longer period than thirteen hours in all towers, offices, places, and stations...
Página 16 - ... on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and day, nor for a longer period than thirteen hours in all towers, offices, places and stations operated only during the daytime, except in case of emergency, when the...
Página 207 - I recommend It to you for your most serious consideration. I hope that you will consider it as if you were acting for the whole country, and I beg that you will regard It as urged upon your acceptance by myself with very deep earnestness. This is a time, I am sure you will feel, when everything should be done that It is possible for men to do to see that all untoward and threatening circumstances of every sort are taken out of the life of the people of the United States.
Página 152 - Fourth: We demand pay for all narrow work and dead work, which includes brushing, timbering, removing falls, handling impurities, etc. "Fifth: We demand a checkweighman at all mines to be elected by the miners, without any interference by company officials in said election. "Sixth: We demand the right to trade in any store we please, and the right to choose our own boarding places and our own doctor.
Página 211 - I think the country regretted their decision and was disappointed that they should have taken so uncompromising a position. I have waited and hoped for a change in their attitude, but now fear that there will be none. And yet I do not feel that I am at liberty to do nothing in the presence of circumstances so serious and distressing. Merely to withdraw the federal troops and leave the situation to clear and settle itself would seem to me to be doing something less than my duty after all that has...
Página 159 - Let us meet now as friends and proceed to settle this entire controversy with honor to ourselves, with credit to our people, and with faith in each other. "Hoping you will favor us with a prompt reply, we beg to remain, "Sincerely yours, "POLICY COMMITTEE.
Página 149 - Wyoming day wage scale. Third: We demand an eight-hour working day for all classes of labor, in or around the coal lands and at coke ovens. Fourth: We demand pay for our narrow work and dead work, which in'cludes brushing, timbering, removing...
Página 211 - ... withdraw the federal troops and leave the situation to clear and settle itself would seem to me to be doing something less than my duty after all that has occurred. I have therefore determined to appoint the commission contemplated in the plan of temporary settlement, notwithstanding the rejection of the plan by the mine operators, and thus at least to create the instrumentality by which like troubles and disputes may be amicably and honorably settled in the future, in the hope, the very earnest...
Página 149 - Third: We demand an eight-hour work day for all classes of labor in or around the coal mines and at the coke ovens. "Fourth: We demand pay for all narrow work and dead work, which includes brushing, timbering, removing falls, handling impurities, etc. "Fifth: We demand...

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