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