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I also renew my recommendation that the principle of the eight-hour day should as rapidly and as far as practicable be extended to the entire work being carried on by the Government; the present law should be amended to embrace contracts on those public works which the present wording of the act seems to exclude.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt urges the extension of the eight-hour workday to all government contracts.

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