There is no authority to fix any wage above 40 cents an hour or to establish any workweek shorter than 40 hours.
The division of the workday and the workweek provided young men with opportunities to work for themselves.
By 1920, the union had contracts with 85 percent of men's garment manufacturers and had reduced the workweek to 44 hours.
Early in his life he campaigned to reduce the workweek, and as an advocate of organized labor.
It also set a new, reduced workweek, although the details vary in different accounts.
Every reduction of the length of the workweek has been accompanied by an increase in real per-capita income.
However, the workweek is responsive to business conditions.
This initially entailed almost a year's worth of eighteen-hour days and seven-day workweeks.
