To Limit Hours of Service: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1562, a Bill to Amend Section 62, Chapter 3, Title 45, of the Code of Laws of the United States of America (see Also Hearings on S. 2511, Incorporated, Herein by Reference). June 27, July 3 and 8, 1935 ...Considers legislation to establish restrictions on the number of hours of labor required of railroad employees. |
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Page 76 - ... 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 employees named in this proviso may be permitted to be and remain on duty for four additional hours in a twenty-four-hour period on not exceeding three days in any week...
Page 1 - Act to require or permit any employee subject to this act to be or remain on duty for a longer period than sixteen consecutive hours, and whenever any such employee of such common carrier shall have been continuously on duty for sixteen hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive hours off duty ; and no such...
Page 79 - SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier, its officers or agents, subject to this Act to require or permit any employee subject to this Act to be or remain on duty for a longer period than sixteen consecutive hours, and whenever any such employee of such common carrier shall have been continuously on duty for sixteen hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive hours off duty...
Page 79 - We arc still more or less under the spell of the old idea that care is wholly a matter of the will. No truth of science, however, is better established than that fatigue is not simply a matter of muscles, but that it involves nerves and brain as well, and extends to all the faculties of the mind itself. It produces physiological changes which deaden the will and impair the sense of sight and of hearing. It Is as truly a physical cause of accident as are open switches and broken rails.
Page 75 - April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight; also in all causes arising under an "Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon...
Page 159 - Train accident» are accidents, with or without casualties, arising in connection with the operation or movement of trains, locomotives, or cars, that result in damage to equipment or other railway property in excess of $150 (including cost of clearing wreck). Train-Venice accidents are accidents arising in connection with the operation or movement of trains, locomotives, or cars, that...
Page 75 - Provided further, The Interstate Commerce Commission may after full hearing in a particular case and for good cause shown extend the period within which a common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this proviso as to such case.
Page 115 - UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Fred H.
Page 167 - I am glad to have had an opportunity to appear before you. (The documents referred to and submitted by the witness are here printed in full as follows:) Recapitulation of lands that will be affected by M organza spillway 1.
Page 79 - Law is stated in its preamble as "an Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by limiting the hours of service of employees thereon." The Act was Intended to promote safety of train operations by preventing the excessive mental and physical strain which usually results from remaining too long at an exacting task. It was to prevent the dangers which must necessarily arise to the...