Letters, memos, a telegram, a newspaper clipping, and executive orders by President Coolidge concerning whether to make Saturday a shorter workday for government workers. The documents show that President Coolidge authorized a four-hour Saturday workday initially during the summer months, then for increasingly longer periods of the year. A September 6, 1928, letter from William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, requests extension until January 1, 1929, of the Saturday half-holiday for government employees. Green speaks of the "efficiency and a higher standard of service" which will result from the expansion of this "opportunity for the enjoyment of leisure and recreation."
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Selected Document List | Page Images
| no date | Typescript |
| December 5, 1923 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to Harry S. New |
| May 16, 1927 | Letter from Thomas McCarthy to Calvin Coolidge |
| September 17, 1928 | Letter from Luther C. Steward to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 9, 1927 | Typescript from Calvin Coolidge |
| May 10, 1927 | Letter from Luther C. Steward to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 16, 1927 | Letter from A. Kingle to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 18, 1927 | Letter from Harold A. Dover to Calvin Coolidge |
| September 6, 1928 | Letter from William Green to Calvin Coolidge |
| June 20, 1927 | Letter from C.A. Gisby to Calvin Coolidge |
| September 17, 1928 | Letter from Joseph E. Evans to Calvin Coolidge |
| September 6, 1924 | Letter from A.B. Degges to C. Bascom Slemp |
| September 18, 1928 | Telegram from A.O. Wharton to Calvin Coolidge |
| September 28, 1928 | Letter from Everett Sanders to Harlan Wood |
| no date | Notes from Florence G. Miller |
| October 4, 1928 | Letter from Margaret Hopkins Worrell to Edward T. Clark |
| May 7, 1927 | Letter from Luther C. Steward to Calvin Coolidge |
| April 5, 1927 | Letter from Fanny M. Potter to Calvin Coolidge |
| May 27, 1926 | Letter from G.K. Weston to Calvin Coolidge |
| no date | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to Theodore Roosevelt |
| September 12, 1924 | Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Calvin Coolidge |
| September 8, 1924 | Letter from C. Bascom Slemp to A.B. Degges |
| May 9, 1927 | Federal Publication from Calvin Coolidge |
| March 1, 1927 | Letter from C.L. Brown to Calvin Coolidge |