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Walter Smith 1884 - 1966

Walter Smith of Fresno, Fresno County, California was born on August 29, 1884, and died at age 81 years old in April 1966.
Walter Smith
Fresno, Fresno County, California 93702
August 29, 1884
April 1966
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    1884

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    August 29, 1884
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    1966

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    April 1966
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    Walter Smith lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1884, in the year that Walter Smith was born, on May 1st, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions - a US association - first resolved that "eight hours shall constitute a legal day's labour from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this jurisdiction that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution by the time named." Previously, workdays would consist of 10 to 16 hours a day - 6 days a week. It would take years before the 8 hour workday became common practice - and longer before it became a law.
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In 1913, he was 29 years old when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.
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