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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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is the act whichaffects city railways, and in accordancewith the mandate of the law, the JerseyCity & Bergen Street Railway Co. have be-gun to make their rules to conform withits provisions. The result, as any one canplainly see, will be that in many cases carconductors and drivers will be prohibitedfrom working when there is work thatthey wish to do. The mischief in the actlies mainly, it would appear, in its twelveconsecutive hours clause. Por example,a conductor who gets the early morningrun of, say four hours, and then has whatis called a swing, until night, will be unableto accept that nights work because it wouldfall in time beyond the twelve consecutivehours. Suppose he knocks off at 8 a.m., and has until 4 p. m. before going onduty again. At that hour twelve consecu-tive hours will have passed, and the lawforbids him to work. This will be suffi-cient for prefatory purposes. The follow-ing copies of documents will explain the rest. Jdne, 1887 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 493
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494 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. June, 1887. STATE OF NEW JERSEY. An act to regulate the hours of labor ofemployees of surface and elevated rail-road oompanies. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Gen-eral Assembly of the State of New Jersey,That twelve hours labor to be performedwithin twelve consecutive hours, withreasonable time for meals, not less thanhalf an hour for each, shall constitute adays labor in the operation of all cable,traction and horse car, street surface rail-roads, and of all cable, traction and steamelevated railroads, owned or operated bycorporations incorporated under the lawsof this State, for the employees of suchcorporations in operating such railroads. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be amisdemeanor for any officer or agent ofany such corporation to exact from any ofsuch employees more than twelve hourslabor within the twenty-four hours of thenatural day, and within twelve consecutivehours therein; as in the first section pro-vided; provided, however, tha

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