(29681) 40 hour work week in Illinois

AFSCME President Arnold Zander (left) congratulates Illinois State Representative Gail Williams on the passage of a 40-hour-work-week bill in the Illinois House in 1963. Zander and Williams attended an executive board meeting of AFSCME Illinois Council 34 and are joined here by Charles Brackman, vice president of Menard Prison Local 1175 in Chester; Loren McBeath, president of State Reformatory Local 1133 in Dwight; and Bruce Redford, president of State Prison Local 494 in Pontiac.