The Thirty-Hour Week

Archive Report

Labor's Demand for a Thirty-Hour Week

Pressure for Legislation by the 74th Congress

Establishment of a six-hour day and a five-day week throughout American industry is now the “paramount objective” of the American labor movement.1 A resolution unanimously adopted by the American Federation of Labor at its fifty-fifth annual convention, at Atlantic City in October, 1935, directed the officers of the federation to employ all its resources to obtain enactment of legislation to this end at the present session of Congress. Plans for carrying out this mandate were laid at the quarterly meeting of the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. which convened at Miami, January 15.

With a national election to be held in November, and the A. F, of L. prepared to support ...

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