...consecutive hours ofT duty ; and no such employee who has been on duty sixteen hours in the aggregatein any twenty-fourhour period shall be required or permitted...on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty four-hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and...

...St. § 8678]). The material portions of the act, so far as this case is concerned, read as follows: "Provided, that no operator, train dispatcher, or...on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and...

...ten consecutive hours off duty : * * * Provided, that no operator, train dispatcher, or other employe who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches,...permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine-hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously...

...other employe who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches, reports, transmits, reeehes, or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train...permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine-hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously...

...connection with train movements, and it is declared that no operator in connection with such service shall be required, or permitted, to be or remain on duty for a longer period than 9 hours in any 24-hour period, in stations continuously operated night and day, nor for a longer period...

...is not the same as the law in regard to operators. The law does not say that an employe shall not be permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than 16 consecutive hours in any 24-hour period, and the hours of service for operators is much less than...

...proviso in § 2 of the act, which is as follows: "Provided, That no operator, train dispatcher, . . . shall be required or permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously operated night and...

...hours, which applies to all employees of the classes mentioned. The second paragraph reads as follows : Provided, That no operator, train dispatcher, or other...permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than iiine hours in any twenty-four-hour period In all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously...

...receives or delivers orders pertaining to or affecting train movements, shall be required or permitted to remain on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any twenty-four under circumstances named, and it is to be assumed that this act will be construed in the...

...ten consecutive hours off duty : * * * Provided, that no operator, train dispatcher, or other employe who by the use of the telegraph or telephone dispatches,...permitted to be or remain on duty for a longer period than nine-hours in any twenty-four hour period in all towers, offices, places, and stations continuously...