in passing....

Czechoslovakia had an eight-hour day before the USA...

and

Mexico’s 1917 constitution established an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, the rights to establish unions and to collectively bargain, and a right to strike—rights not seen in the United States until the 1930s and later.

The above cut and pasted from the New Press webpage about "The Mexican Revolution" by Adolfo Gilly...

Needless, to say, thanks to so-called neo-Liberalism, such progressive ideas are sadly in retreat all over the world--in the USA, in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, and elsewhere