He also had Congress pass the Adamson Act, which imposed an 8-hour workday for railroads.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

* 1916 – Adamson Railway Labor Act

The Board's jurisdiction is limited to private sector employers and the United States Postal Service ; other than Postal Service employees, it has no authority over labor relations disputes involving governmental, railroad and airline employees covered by the Adamson Railway Labor Act, or agricultural employees.

The Adamson Act of 1916 established an eight-hour day for railroad labor and solidified the ties between the labor unions and the Democratic Party.

They consolidated their power in 1916, after threatening a national strike, by securing the Adamson Act, a federal law that provided 10 hours pay for an eight hour day.

" However, White also wrote the decision upholding the constitutionality of the Adamson Act, which mandated a maximum eight-hour work day for railroad employees, in 1916.

To avert a strike, President Woodrow Wilson secured Congressional passage of the Adamson Act, which set the eight hour day as the industry standard.

In 1972, he appeared in the High Court in Adamson v Hayes, an important case concerning the construction of section 34 of the Property Law Act 1969 ( WA ).

United States House of Representatives | Rep. William C. Adamson ( Democratic Party ( United States ) | D — Georgia's 4th congressional district | GA-4 ), the sponsor of the Adamson Act.

The Adamson Act was a United States federal law passed in 1916 that established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for interstate railroad workers.

The language of the Adamson Act is now recodified, with only minor changes, at 49 U. S. C.

He worked with Congress to give federal employees worker's compensation, outlawed child labor with the Keating-Owen Act ( though this act was ruled unconstitutional in 1918 ) and passed the Adamson Act, which secured a maximum eight-hour workday for railroad employees.

* The Adamson Act gave railroad workers on interstate runs an eight-hour workday.

The requisite Act of Parliament enabling the canal was finally passed on 6 August 1885, after which Adamson became the first chairman of the board of directors of the Manchester Ship Canal Company – a post he held until February 1887.

The United States Adamson Act in 1916 established an eight-hour day, with additional pay for overtime, for railroad workers.

* September 3, 1916: Adamson Act

After the war a new company, R. Barton Adamson and Co was formed and the 1916 four-cylinder car was resurrected but now with a Coventry-Simplex engine.

Nelly Adamson Landry ( December 28, 1916 – February 22, 2010 ) was a female tennis player from Belgium ( became French citizen after marriage ).

Exposure to large stadium crowds and the intensity of the whole rock-and-roll business provided a stimulus for the group to start to develop a more rock-oriented sound to its razor-sharp electronic dance music, and 1991's As Is EP ( produced by Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman, Flood, Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder, and Barry Adamson ) saw the band adopt a more traditional songwriting approach, and it paved the way for the aforementioned Ebbhead.

Adamson provided lyrics to McHugh's compositions.

Steam for the Beam Engine and other artefacts provided by a 1957 Daniel Adamson steam boiler, which was formerly used at Frankham ’ s Mill, Te Puna.

Named for Georgia representative William C. Adamson, this was the first federal law that regulated the hours of workers in private companies.

According to the featurettes Pacino, DeNiro and the Conversation and The Making of Heat: True Crime, included in the special edition DVD, which includes a taped interview with Adamson, the scene of McCauley and Hanna in the restaurant was also based on a real life event.

( Joe Adamson, in Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo, observed that this scene disproved the common notion that Zeppo was the least of the Marx Brothers: " It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it.

* Toronto Pearson Airport-Terminal 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada opened April 2004 ( in association with Adamson Associates Architects, and Moshe Safdie and Associates )

Val Adamson is the mayor, who heads the city council that includes six others, with the mayor voting to break ties.

* December 16 – Stuart Adamson ( 43 ), guitarist with Big Country ( suicide )

While Elsa lived in many ways like a domesticated pet when she was small, Joy Adamson, whom Elsa trusted the most, considered her relationship with Elsa to be that of equals.

Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness.

In The Story of Elsa, a compilation of the books about Elsa, Joy Adamson wrote: " My heart was with them wherever they were.

Adamson worked closely with publishers to promote the book, which contributed to the Adamsons ' new-found international celebrity.

Adamson shared book proceeds with various conservation projects.

Travers and McKenna decided to do all of their own scenes with the lions in the film in order to recreate the close relationship that Joy and George Adamson had with Elsa.

* The Joy Adamson Story ( 1980 )-Programme featuring interviews with Joy Adamson about her life and work in Austria and in Africa, and her famous lioness Elsa.

The game was developed by the Oliver Twins with graphics being designed by Neil Adamson and music by David Whittaker.

Jobson's singing style with the Skids was highly distinctive, and he wrote the lyrics, while Stuart Adamson wrote most of the music.

In the second series, Drake unwillingly answers to " Gorton " ( Raymond Adamson ) his superior at M9 and later to " Hobbs " ( Peter Madden ), a sinister superior officer always seen fiddling with a knife-like letter opener.

Anthropologist E. Adamson Hoebel ( 1966 ) said the Aztec patolli derives from the East Indian game of pachisi., but in R. Barry Lewis of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois ( 1988 ) said the convergence between the two games has to due with the limitations of a board game, meaning the two games were independently derived.

The band's line-up was completed with the addition of Ultravox keyboardist Billy Currie and three quarters of the post-punk band Magazine – guitarist John McGeoch, keyboardist Dave Formula and bassist Barry Adamson ( who left the band early on after the band's debut single, but returned as a session musician ).

After further hits with the singles " Mind of a Toy " and the title track " Visage ", Strange struggled to reunite the band's members again to record a second album because of their commitments with their respective bands ( Ure had now joined Currie in Ultravox, Formula and Adamson with Magazine, and McGeoch with Siouxsie and the Banshees ).

Visage, now without Ure, McGeoch and Adamson ( who continued collaborating with Pete Shelley, and joined Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ) but now with the addition of bassist Steve Barnacle, recorded the stand-alone single " Pleasure Boys ", which was released in October 1982.