History of the United States II / Unit 6 USH2 0790 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Wilson's Labour Laws
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The idea
Wilson signed the Adamson Act, the first federally mandated eight-hour day, for railroad workers, along with the Keating-Owen child labour law and the Federal Farm Act.
In practice
Railroad workers winning by law the eight-hour day unions had long sought.
Where people slip
In nineteen sixteen Wilson beat Charles Evans Hughes by only twenty-three electoral votes and fewer than six hundred thousand popular votes.
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