Talk:Adamson Act

message: How could a legislation be proposed in August 1916 to deal with the Red Scare that started in 1917?Lorus77 (talk) 01:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: The Act was repealed in 1996, although it would be more accurate to say that it was recodified, with all of the substantive terms now found in newly enacted Sections under Title 49 of the United States Code.  The Adamson Act, which was found at 45 U.S.C. §§ 65, 66, had previously provided:
:§65. Establishment of eight hour day
:Eight hours shall, in contracts for labor and service, be deemed a day's work and the measure of standard of a day's work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees who are now or may hereafter be employed by any common carrier by railroad, except railroads independently owned and operated not exceeding one hundred miles in length, electric street railroads, and electric interurban railroads, which is subject to the provisions of subtitle IV of Title 49, and who are now or may hereafter be actually engaged in any capacity in the operation of trains used for the transportation of persons or property on railroads, except railroads independently owned and operated not exceeding one hundred miles in length, electric street railroads, and electric interurban railroads, from any State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or from one 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 United States: Provided, That the above exceptions shall not apply to railroads though less than one hundred miles in length whose principal business is leasing or furnishing terminal or transfer facilities to other railroads, or are themselves engaged in transfers of freight between railroads or between railroads and industrial plants.
:§66. Penalty for violation
:Any person violating any provision of section 65 of this title shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $100 and not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not to exceed one year, or both.
The statute that replaced it, found at 49 U.S.C.§§ 28301, 28302, now provides:
:§ 28301
:(a) Eight Hour Day.— In contracts for labor and service, 8 hours shall be a day’s work and the standard day’s work for determining the compensation for services of an employee employed by a common carrier by railroad subject to subtitle IV of this title and actually engaged in any capacity in operating trains used for transporting passengers or property on railroads from—
::(1) a State of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or the District of Columbia;
::(2) one place in a territory or possession of the United States to another place in the same territory or possession;
::(3) a place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country; or
::(4) a place in the United States through a foreign country to any other place in the United States.
:(b) Application.— Subsection (a) of this section—
::(1) does not apply to—
:::(A) an independently owned and operated railroad not exceeding one hundred miles in length;
:::(B) an electric street railroad; and
:::(C) an electric interurban railroad; but
::(2) does apply to an independently owned and operated railroad less than one hundred miles in length—
:::(A) whose principal business is leasing or providing terminal or transfer facilities to other railroads; or
:::(B) engaged in transfers of freight between railroads or between railroads and industrial plants.
:§ 28302
:A person violating section 28301 of this title shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/45/usc_sec_45_00000065----000-.html
Italo Svevo (talk) 04:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification regarding repeal of the Act