Harry Truman actually said...

I hereby suspend for a period of six months, effective immediately, the above-mentioned provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours of labor in any one day by laborers and mechanics employed by the Government of the United States.

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Executive Order 9849—Suspension of Eight-hour Law as to Work by the Alaska Railroad, Department of the Interior

05/08/1947

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