COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE SEVENTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 2519 A BILL TO ESTABLISH A SIX-HOUR DAY FOR EMPLOYEES FOREIGN COMMERCE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 43629 MARCH 1, 2, 6, AND 7, 1934 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce j. UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1934 SIX-HOUR DAY FOR EMPLOYEES OF CARRIERS ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a.m. in room 414, Senate Office Building, Senator Clarence C. Dill (chairman), presiding. The CHAIRMAN. The meeting will come to order. This meeting is for the purpose of holding hearings on Senate bill 2519 introduced by Senator Black, generally known as the 6-hour-day bill. This committee has never held hearings on this subject and it was decided to have hearings of 2 days against the bill and then decide as to whether or not we would go further in the way of hearings at this session. I think the bill should be printed at this point in the record, and following the bill, I should like to have printed in the record a report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, under date December 13, 1932, that was rendered to the House of Representatives and made a public document. It is so important in the nature of information it contains that I think it ought to be printed here. It gives a considerable amount of data gathered in 1932 by the Interstate Commerce Commission as to what the effect of the 6-hour day would be if applied to the railroads. (The bill and report referred to follow:) [S. 2519, 73d Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To establish a six-hour day for employees of carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to establish an eight-hour day for employees of carriers engaged in interstate commerce, and for other purposes", approved September 5, 1916, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. SIX-HOUR DAY-ESTABLISHMENT FOR EMPLOYEES OF CARRIERS ENGAGED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE, AND SO FORTH.-That beginning July 1, 1934, six hours shall, in contracts for labor and service (except where a lesser number of hours constitute a day under existing agreements), be deemed a day's work and the measure or standard of a day's work for the purpose of reckoning the compensation for services of all employees who are now or may hereafter be employed by agencies and/or operators of facilities of interstate transportation, including any common carrier by railroad (its floating equipment, such as barges, tugs, ferries, and bridges), express company, freight-forwarding company, and sleeping-car company (hereinafter called 'carriers') which is subject to regulation under the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States, except electric street railroads, and electric interurban railroads not operating as a part of the general transportation system. 1 |