" But " While they were not opposed to strikes as such, they were opposed to trade unions and the struggle for the eight-hour day.

" But " While they were not opposed to strikes as such, they were opposed to trade unions and the struggle for the eight-hour day.

* May Day, The Workers ' Day, born in the struggle for the eight-hour day, Andy McInerney, in Liberation & Marxism, issue no.

The IWW lumber strike of 1917 led to the eight-hour day and vastly improved working conditions in the Pacific Northwest.

On May 1, 1886, Parsons, with his wife Lucy and two children, led 80, 000 people down Michigan Avenue, in what is regarded as the first-ever May Day Parade, in support of the eight-hour work day.

The initial success in Melbourne led to the decision to organize a movement, to actively spread the eight-hour idea, and secure the condition generally.

Building trades in Auckland achieved the eight-hour day on 1 September 1857 after agitation led by Chartist painter, William Griffin.

On May 1, 1886, Albert Parsons, head of the Chicago Knights of Labor, with his wife Lucy Parsons and two children, led 80, 000 people down Michigan Avenue, Chicago, in what is regarded as the first modern May Day Parade, in support of the eight-hour day.

* May 1 – The eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States.

The first statewide federated labor body was the Mechanics ' State Council that championed the eight-hour day against the employers ' 1867 " Ten Hour League ".

Addams worked with labor as well as other reform groups toward goals including the first juvenile-court law, tenement-house regulation, an eight-hour working day for women, factory inspection, and workers ' compensation.

Prompted by his awareness of social responsibility, he was one of the first industrialists in Germany to introduce the eight-hour work day, followed by other social benefits for his associates.

During his only year in office, he reorganized the Chicago police, combining the Day Police and the Night Watch into a single police force with 3 eight-hour shifts and requiring the police for the first time to wear uniforms.

On May 1, 1886, the first May Day, a massive strike in support of the eight-hour work day occurred in Chicago.

The IWW ( or the Wobblies ) was an important industrial union, and was the first American labor union to recruit and organize women and people of color, and played a critical role in the fight for the eight-hour work day and in Free Speech fights all over the country in the early 20th century.

During the territory's first legislative session, Clark signed laws creating a variety of regulatory agencies and implementing compulsory education, juvenile courts, eight-hour days for workers in many industries, and women's suffrage.

Only four checkpoint stops are mandated: a 36-hour stop at Dawson City ; a four-hour stop in Eagle, Alaska ; a two-hour stop at the first checkpoint ; and an eight-hour stop at the last.

Novelist and screenwriter Michael Marshall Smith completed a first draft of a script for an eight-hour miniseries in 1995.

The first steps to achieve this aim were to be democratization of the election procedures ( liquidation of privileges of the bourgeoisie ) and introduction of an eight-hour working day.

On 1 March 1858, stonemasons working for John Petrie won the eight-hour day, which was first commemorated on 1 March 1865.

Spain was the first country to pass a national eight-hour day law.

In 1946 the council of ministers issued the first labor law for Iran, which recognized the eight-hour day.

New Zealand is reputed to be the first country in the world to have adopted the eight-hour working day.

The eight-hour day might have been realized for many working people in the U. S. in 1937, when what became the Fair Labor Standards Act ( 29 U. S. Code Chapter 8 ) was first proposed under the New Deal.

In 1886, Horgan, along with Richard " Dickie " Haynes, formed Western Australia's first Eight Hours Association to agitate for the eight-hour day.

The Manifesto supported the creation of an eight-hour work day for all workers, a minimum wage, worker representation in industrial management, equal confidence in labour unions as in industrial executives and public servants, reorganization of the transportation sector, revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance, reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55, a strong progressive tax on capital, confiscation of the property of religious institutions and abolishment of bishoprics, and revision of military contracts to allow the government to seize 85 % of their profits.

* 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.

* The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour workday for all workers ;

# Enforcement of the eight-hour work day law

Soon was made chairman of the board of inquiry in regard to the Adamson eight-hour law.

For example, in Holden v. Hardy ( 1898 ), the Supreme Court upheld a Utah law setting an eight-hour work day for miners.

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 Illinois legislature passed a law in early 1867 granting an eight-hour day but had so many loopholes that it was largely ineffective.

On June 25, 1868, Congress passed an eight-hour law for federal employees which was also of limited effectiveness.

Hungarian fascist Gyula Gömbös rose to power as Prime Minister of Hungary in 1932 and attempted to entrench his Party of National Unity throughout the country ; created an eight-hour work day, a forty-eight hour work week in industry, and sought to entrench a corporatist economy ; and pursued irredentist claims on Hungary's neighbors.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

In 1957, Menon was instructed to deliver an unprecedented eight-hour speech defending India ’ s stand on Kashmir ; to date, the speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council, covering five hours of the 762nd meeting on the 23 of January, and two hours and forty-eight minutes on the 24th, reportedly concluding with Menon's collapse on the Security Council floor.

After a massive eight-hour artillery bombardment, the Germans did not expect much resistance as they slowly advanced on Verdun and its forts.

She believed in " a living wage ; in an eight-hour day ; in courts of conciliation and arbitration ; in justice as opposed to greed in gain ; in Peace on Earth and Good-Will to Men.

" Jimmy " James on his regular eight-hour mail delivery flight to Los Angeles.

He joined the Greenback Party, which advocated an expanded and flexible national currency based on the use of silver alongside gold, as well as an eight-hour work day, the taxation of interest from government bonds, and a graduated income tax.

There are three mandatory rests that each team must take during the Iditarod: one 24-hour layover, to be taken at any checkpoint ; one eight-hour layover, taken at any checkpoint on the Yukon River ; and an eight-hour stop at White Mountain.

For the Fabian Society he wrote on poverty in London, the eight-hour day, land nationalisation the nature of socialism, education, eugenics and reform of the House of Lords.

During the 1983-84 season the Met celebrated its 100th anniversary with an opening night revival of Berlioz's mammoth opera Les Troyens and with an eight-hour Centennial Gala concert that unfolded in two parts on October 22, 1983 and was broadcast on national television.

An eight-hour benefit concert was held for Stockley on 4 November 1973 at Leggett's Ballroom, Greville Street, Prahran.

In the 2000 eight-hour movie ( broadcast as a mini-series ) The 10th Kingdom, Scott Cohen plays a character called Wolf, which is based on the Big Bad Wolf and there is some speculation to whether he may even be the Big Bad Wolf's descendant ( mainly owed to the fact that most other characters in the mini-series are descendants of many well-known fairy tale characters ).

Greenfield also was an officer of the province-wide Association of Local Improvement Districts, which advocated for reforms such as a change from a ten-hour to an eight-hour work day, on the grounds that many Local Improvement Districts ( LIDs ) were having trouble competing with railways for labour.

By the early 20th century, most of the larger cities and more than half the states had established an eight-hour day on public works.

In 1886 her husband, who had been heavily involved in campaigning for the eight-hour day, was arrested, tried and executed on November 11, 1887, by the state of Illinois on charges that he had conspired in the Haymarket Riot — an event which was widely regarded as a political frame-up and which marked the beginning of May Day labor rallies in protest.