The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-07

'ANNANH fN'HnNt AflAA HRt i'f W DUNN
IAN Act to provide for an eight-hour
day for railroad. telegraph and teia-
phone operators beg leave to report
that the national law limiting tha
hours of service OF employees went
into effect in March. 1908. and that
the committee has drafted the amend
ed bin herewith submitted which we
believe is in harmony with the Nj
tional law and we recommend that
the bill in It's amended form do pass.
We further recommend that the ma.
tional law be printed as a part of the
committee report for consideration IN
connection with the bill The nation
al law is as follows:
chapter 29so-Ans Act to promote
the safety of the employees and trav-
elers upon railroads by limiting the
hours Of service of employees thereon.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE SENATE
AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-.
TIvEs or THE UNITED STATES
OF AstERICA IN CONGRESS AS,
SEMBLED.
'That the provisions of this Act
shall apply to any common carrier
or carriers. their officers or agents,
and employees. engaged in transpor.a-
tion Of passengers or property by rail.
roads in the District Of Columbia or
any Territory Of the United States, r
from one state or Territory of the
United States Of the District Of Col
umbia to any other State or Territory
of the United States or the District
of Columbia, or from any other place
in the United States to an adjacent
foreign country, or from any place in
the United states through a foreign
country to any other place in the Uni
ted States The term railroad s.
used in this Act shall include all
bridge and ferries operated in comic :,
iion with any railroad, and also al
the road in use by any common car
rier operating railroad whether
owned or operated under contract
agreement or lease; and the term
"employeep as used in this Act shall
be held TO mean persons actually en-
gagged in or connected with the move
ment of any train
Section 2 That il shah be unlaw
liul for any common carrier, its OH
GERS, agents subject to this Act, 20
require or permit any employe subject
TO this Act to be or remain on duty
for longer period than sixteen con.
secutiye hours, and whenever any
such employe of such common car
rier shall have been continuously On
duty for sixteen hours, he shall be re-
lieved and not required or permitted
again to 90 on duts until he has had
at least ten consecutive hours of
duty; aud no such employe who has
been on duty sixteen hours in the az
eregate in any twenty-fourhour period
shall be required or permitted TO con.
tinUe or agnin 80 on duty without hav.
ing had at least eight consecutive
hours OFF duty Provided, that no ope-
rator, train dispatcher or other EN-
ploye who by the use Of the telegraph
or telephone dispatches. reports, trans
mits, receives and delivers orders per
tanning to or affecting train move
ments shall be required or permitted
TO be or remain on duty Tor longer
period than nine hours in any twenty
four-hour period in all towers. Offices,
places and stations continuously ope-
rated night and day. nor for a long ,
period than thirteen hours in all tow
ers, offices places and stations operl.
ted only during the daytime, except
in cases Of emergency, when the EN-
lploye named in this provision may b.
permitted to be and remain on duty
for four additional hours In the TWEEN
ty-four.hour period on not exceeding
three days in one week. Provided
further, the Interstate Commeree
| Commission may after fun hearing n
a particular ease and for good cause
shown extend the period within which
a common carrier shall comply with
the provisions of this proyiso as 70
such case
Section 3. That any such common
carrier officer or agent thereof re
quiring or permitting any employe "a
go be or remain ON duty IA violation
OF the second section thereof. shall bo
liable to a penalty Of not to exceed
five hundred dollars for each aud
every violation, TO be recovered in Z
lsuit OF suits to be brought by the Uni
ted States District Attorney in tbs
District Court OF the United States
having jurisdiction in the locality
where such violation shall have been
committed, and Il shall be the duty oil
such district attorney to bring sneh
suits upon satisfactory informatioa
being lodged with MIN: but no suel
suit shall be- brought after the expira
ton OF one year from the date OF sucr
violation, and Il shall also be the duts