HARDING GIVES FED & DISTRICT EMPLOYEES 4 HOUR DAY ON SATURDAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On December 15, 1922, President Warren G. Harding issued an executive order providing that...
"Federal and District employees...work only four hours on Saturday before Christmas."
The order applying to December 23, 1922 states that the four hour work day "for all clerks and other employees" will be "exclusive of the time for luncheon."
Some employees could be excluded from getting the four hour day based on the provision that the order "shall not apply to any bureau...of the government or District of Columbia that may...be excepted therefrom by the head of (such) department."
SOURCE
"President Calls Four-Hour Day On December 23," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., December 15, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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