Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-12-13 | Page 9 | Eight-Hour-Day Law Applies to Tunnel Job

Eight-Hour-Day Law Applies to Tunnel Job Provisions of the law limiting work to eight hours per day In "all underground mines and workings" work-ings" apply to work on the Alpine-Draper Alpine-Draper tunnel. Assistant Attorney General S. D. Huffaker held in an opinion given Wednesday. The opinion, submitted to Frank A. Jugler, member of the state industrial commission, said in regard re-gard to the tunnel work, which is part of the Deer creek project, "that the legislature did not intend in-tend to restrict the eight-hour law to mines and smelters. You will note that law refers to 'underground 'under-ground mines or workings'. The water -tunnel Is aa underground working and hence comes within the provisions of the statute."