Suspension of the Eight-Hour Law as to Laborers and Mechanics 10251 Employed by the Department of Defense on Public Work Essential to the National Defense Signed: June 7, 1951 Federal Register page and date: 16 FR 5465, June 9, 1951 Supersedes: EO 9898, October 14, 1947 Amended by: EO 10416, December 2, 1952 Note: See Public Law 94-412 (90 Stat. 1255; 50 U.S.C. 1601), which terminates, effective September 14, 1978, all powers and authorities, except those expressly cited, possessed by the President and/or other Federal officials as a result of any declaration of a national emergency in effect on September 14, 1976.