A second installment of labor legislation was offered in the law of 1908 limiting the hours of railway employees engaged as trainmen or telegraph operators.
1908 年的法律提供了第二部分劳动立法,限制铁路雇担任火车
报
的工作时间。
Still more extraordinary than the Seamen's Act was the Adamson law of 1916 fixing a standard eight-hour work-day for trainmen on railroads—a measure wrung from Congress under a threat of a great strike by the four Railway Brotherhoods.
比《海法》更特别的是 1916 年的亚当森法,它规定了铁路列车
的标准工作日八小时——这是在四大铁路兄弟会大罢工的威胁下从国会强行采取的一项措施。