All the representatives in Colorado’s legislature took a bribe to vote down legislation of this type for miners. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of law applied to the rail industry in the 1916 Adamson Act. A common slogan in support of these laws called for equal time for work, recreation, and rest.
ANSWER: eight-hour workday [or 40 hour week; prompt on short-time law or equivalent answers about laws that limit the workday]
[10h] The Colorado eight-hour day law was modeled after one in this state. In the early 20th century, the Smoot Hearings concerned whether a Senator elected from this state would be allowed to take office.
ANSWER: Utah
[10e] Albert Parsons co-founded an Eight-Hour League in this city in the 1870s. A decade later, labor activists were massacred in this city’s Haymarket Riot.
ANSWER: Chicago
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