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...world needs large production without increased cost. The eight-hour day would add 15% to the cost...
...difficulty is increased by a decision last week to raise wages 15%-the result of the negotiations concluded by Vice President T. V. O'Connor with the representatives of the International Seamen's Union. This raise, coupled with the adoption of the three-watch system and the eight-hour day in port, will increase operating expenses...
...recent article, Mr. E. G. Buchland, vice-president of the New-York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, strongly condemns the labor unions for demanding an eight-hour day. "This nation", says Mr. Buchland, "was not built by eight-hour men and it will not be maintained by them. It was built by whole families working from dawn 'till dusk in the hope that what they produce and save will be theirs and not anothers'." Therefore, argues the New Haven's manager, any change from the methods of our forefathers must inevitably result in the downfall of industry and the ruin...
...therefore, the present-day workman chooses to strike his balance at eight hours, he is fully entitled to do so. But he must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted...
...unions oppose all the so called 'efficiency' systems that seek to force workers to exert themselves beyond all reasonable limits and that will result in their physical and mental harm. In these days of highly developed machinery, it is inconceivable that ample production cannot be had on an eight-hour basis. At the present time, at least, it is hypocritical to ask laborers to work longer hours and produce more with hundreds and thousands of men out of work...