People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY. [ARTICLE]

THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY.

Declared Unconstitutional by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Lincoln, Neb., June 12.—The supreme court decision declaring the eight-hour a day labor law unconstitutional in effect is as follows: “Sections 1 and 3of chapter 54 of the session laws of 1891 having provided, in effect, that for all classes of mechanics, servants and laborers, excepting those engaged in farm or domestic labor, a day's work should not exceed eight hours. Held, that these provisions are unconstitutional; first, because the discrimination against farm and domestic laborers is special legislation; second, because by the act in question the constitutional right of parties to contract with reference to compensation for services is denied."